Arizona Bioethics Network
Creating a space to explore ethical issues and share knowledge and skills across an extended network.
Arizona Bioethics Network
Creating a space to explore ethical issues and share knowledge and skills across an extended network.
Our Current Focus
Provide ethics resources with particular attention to those affecting Arizonans.
Foster the work and use of ethics committees in health care and biomedical research settings.
Focus on the role of leadership, preventive ethics, and conflict management in ethical decision-making.
Mission
Arizona Bioethics Network (ABN) is dedicated to increasing the understanding of bioethical issues. ABN provides access to resources, offers educational programs, and provides networking opportunities with the goal of improving the health and quality of life for individuals and across communities.
Values
Innovation – Explore change and creatively engage with dynamic bioethical challenges
Integrity – Commit to honest and inclusive principles of practice in the care of individuals and communities
Quality – Deliver leading edge programs and services
Collaboration – Create a network to enhance collaboration within the community
Inclusion – Provide opportunities on a broad spectrum to enhance perspective with regard for the diversity of constituencies we serve
Webinars
ABN hosts a monthly webinar series addressing a wide variety of topics in bioethics and health law. These webinars are free and take place on the third Wednesday of every month.
Arizona Bioethics Network 13th Annual Conference
The Interconnected World: The Ethics of Global Health Policy
Date: September 26, 2025
Time: 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM PST
Location: Valleywise Health Medical Center (in-person) or via Zoom (virtual option)
The Arizona Bioethics Network is pleased to host its 13th Annual Conference, “The Interconnected World: The Ethics of Global Health Policy.” This hybrid event will bring together scholars from various disciplines to explore the ethical questions that shape health in a global context.
This year’s conference will engage timely and complex topics: the role of virtue in global health leadership, anti-racist approaches to reproductive care, the ethics of food systems and choices, vaccine mandates in healthcare settings, and the moral dimensions of migration and border health. Together, these talks will examine how global interdependence shapes health policy and how ethics can help guide thoughtful responses to shared challenges.
Through interdisciplinary dialogue and critical reflection, the conference invites participants to consider what it means to build ethically grounded global health systems in an increasingly connected world.
Cost:
Students – $25
Without CEU/CMEs – $55
With CEU/CMEs – $75
Wednesday November 19th, 2025 – 4:00PM MST
The Crisis of Reason in Western Jurisprudence and the possible effect on Medicine’s Duty to Protect Human Life
Nikolas T. Nikas, MA, JD
This presentation explores the jurisprudential foundations of modern American law, tracing its evolution from the Classical tradition to contemporary interpretations and examining the implications of this shift for medicine and bioethics. The discussion begins with an overview of Classical and Western jurisprudence, from Cicero to Aquinas, to illustrate how notions of justice and natural law shaped early legal frameworks. It then examines the moral reasoning underpinning landmark moments in legal and ethical history, including the Allied prosecution of Nazi defendants at Nuremberg, the Dred Scott case, the Lincoln-Douglas debates, and Buck v. Bell—culminating in an analysis of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail. Through these case studies, the presentation highlights how evolving conceptions of law and morality continue to influence societal responses to issues at the intersection of law, science, medicine, and technology.
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