ASBH Undergraduate Student Sponsorship


To promote diversity in the next generation of bioethicists, the Emory Center for Ethics is collaborating with the Greenwall Foundation, Georgetown University's Kennedy Insitute of EthicsHarvard Medical School's Center for Bioethics, Saint Louis University's Albert Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics and University of Colorado Center for Bioethics and Humanities to support a limited number of undergraduate students to attend this year's American Society for Bioethics & Humanities (ASBH) conference in Baltimore, Maryland from October 11-14, 2023.

Financial support from these institutions will enable us to provide the following for selected students:(i) conference registration at the student rate,(ii) up to $500 in travel costs to Baltimore,(iii) accommodation in Baltimore and (iv) some meals. In addition, there will be cross-institutional mentorship of selected students, including a mentor during the conference and a pre-conference Zoom workshop.

If participating in this year's ASBH conference would further your academic and professional goals, please apply here by September 11, 2023.

Applications will be competitively reviewed on a rolling-basis by an interdisciplinary, cross-institutional committee. We look forward to receiving your application! If you know of any undergraduates who may be interested in this program, please share this website! If you have any questions, please email mabioethics@emory.edu.

This student sponsorship program was founded in 2021 by Gerard Vong and Joanna Young from the Emory University Center for Ethics. This year, Laura Bishop, Associate Teaching Professor and Academic Program Director at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, will be leading the program.  This program has now grown significantly and involves cross-institutional collaboration from dozens of universities across North America. The Emory Center for Ethics values the diversity of our students and is working to ensure our bioethics education is accessible to and supportive of students of diverse and historically underrepresented backgrounds. These efforts complement the Emory Diversifying Graduate Education (EDGE) initiative at the Laney Graduate School as well as Emory University's diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. To further these important efforts, we are particularly interested in providing support for undergraduate students that are historically underrepresented in bioethics.

Testimonial

Samantha Chipman

"Thanks to the Student Sponsorship, I was able to join the RACE Affinity Group at ASBH and collaborate on a panel abstract for the 2022 Conference. I was also able to connect to researchers at the Mayo Clinic, and secure a position as a summer Bioethics Graduate Intern. I'm being mentored by Dr. Meagher, and am working on a qualitative project about antimicrobial resistance and discourse analysis in medical textbooks. I'm also co-mentored by Dr. Barwise, and am revising a manuscript I drafted about patients with limited English proficiency with public health ethics. I couldn't be more grateful towards the Sponsored Student program for making this Mayo Clinic opportunity possible."

Samantha Chipman, Loyola University Chicago (graduated May 2022), 2021 ASBH Student Sponsorship Award Winner



Student Highlight


Caroline Beit is a rising senior at Yale University Double Majoring in the History of Science and Medicine and Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology. This fall, she will be presenting at ASBH after being inspired by all of the fantastic presentations she saw last year thanks to sponsorship from Emory's Bioethics Center. Her presentation will be on "Reimagining the Psych Pool: Ethical Considerations for Undergraduate Participation in Psychological Research."  This summer Caroline is working at Baylor College of Medicine's Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy.

Caroline Beit, Yale University (graduating May 2023), 2021 ASBH Student Sponsorship Award Winner