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The Hastings Center Receives $2.1 Million Grant from the Ford Foundation
Grant to support outreach to policy makers, journalists, and opinion leaders, and research in ethics and public health policy
The Hastings Center has been awarded a $2.1 million grant by the Ford Foundation in support of Bioethics and the Public Interest, a three-year initiative designed to promote thoughtful public conversations about ethical issues in health care and the life sciences. The grant will enable the Center, a world-renowned research and education institution, to expand its capacity to help policy makers, journalists, and opinion leaders better understand the ethical dimensions of end-of-life care, public health priorities, and new medical technologies, among other bioethics issues.
Under this initiative, The Hastings Center will broaden its mission as an independent, nonpartisan organization from its traditional focus on scholarly research to include activities aimed at informing public policy and enhancing public understanding.
The Center will: - Draw on its 38 years of research and its worldwide network of experts to bring balance and perspective on crucial issues in bioethics to policy makers, journalists, and opinion leaders. - Alert these audiences to emerging issues that will affect all of us, such as technological developments that could transform birth, death, and the nature of human life; new concepts in health and disease; and questions of justice, equity, and fairness in our health system. - Create new print and electronic publications, web-based services, and events in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere. The first step in the initiative is the creation of a communications department that will collaborate with the Center's researchers, editors, and Fellows on strategic communications with policy makers, journalists, and opinion leaders.
The Ford Foundation's grant allows the Center to recruit a permanent, senior-level director of public affairs/communications, as well as a research associate to track developments in public health law and policy, develop and direct new scholarly projects, and participate in outreach to new audiences. Both searches are under way. The Center, which is based in Garrison, will also establish a work space in Washington, D.C.
The Ford Foundation grant is the cornerstone of a planned campaign to sustain the public interest initiative and support other activities of The Hastings Center.
Founded in 1969, The Hastings Center was a pioneer in collaborative interdisciplinary research and dialogue on the ethical and social impact of advances in health care and the life sciences. The Hastings Center Fellows are an elected association of leading national and international researchers whose work has been influential in bioethics.
For more information, contact Nancy Berlinger, berlingern@thehastingscenter .org or 845-424-4040, ext. 210, or visit www.thehastings center.org/bioethics-public-interest.asp.
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