Religious Leaders Focus Group

The Ethics Center is committed to serving the needs of its local community. The first step in that process is to determine what those needs are. In order to accomplish this, we are holding a series of focus group meetings to ask leaders from particular communities to share their understanding of the needs and hopes of their groups for a regional ethics center.

Pursuant to that end, we have been meeting with a small group of religious leaders in the San Diego area. We have held two meetings to date, and hope to have additional meetings in the near future.

The first focus group meeting was held March 1, 2004, at the University of San Diego.

The second focus group meeting was held in conjunction with the visit of Dr. William Hurlbut of Stanford at the Faculty Club at UCSD on April 23, 2004. The participants were involved in a two-hour breakfast discussion with Dr. Hurlbut about issues relating to ethics, religion, and science.

Notes from that meeting will soon be available on this website.

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The Ethics Center sponsors several kinds of events, some of which are open to the public, others of which are by invitation only. To be added to our mailing list, please contact The Ethics Center.

Public Lectures

The Ethics Center sponsors public lectures, often in conjunction with other local organizations such as the SDSTC (UCSD), The Burnham Institute and the Values Institute (USD)

Stake Holder Events

The Ethics Center regularly sponsors stake-holder events, which typically involve a local group of 40-50 individuals along with a distinguished visiting leader in ethics. Past events have included Thomas Murray, President of the Hastings Center, and William Hurlbut, Professor of Medicine at Stanford and member of the President's Council on Bioethics.

Focus Groups

In order to assess the needs of or local community and also to develop local communities of individuals who share a particular interest in ethics, science and technology (i.e., religious leaders, health care personnel), we hold periodic focus groups that are devoted to the conjunction of ethics, science, and technology.