Nuffield Council on Bioethics - core funding bid

To fulfil our purpose of placing ethics at the centre of decisions about bioscience and health, we have set five strategic goals: - We will anticipate scientific developments and health trends that pose fundamental ethical questions to society. - We will undertake and communicate rigorous ethical analysis in a way that is clear and relevant to decision-makers and the public. - We will demonstrate the value of ethics to society and decision- makers and embed ethics in policy making. - We will build greater connections across bioethics networks to strengthen the voice of bioethics in policy and public debate. To achieve these goals we will: - Shift our focus to issues at the intersection of scientific innovation and societal challenge. - Expand our horizon scanning so we are even better placed to identify and anticipate ethical challenges and dilemmas before they arise. - Enhance our reputation as a trustworthy source of ethical analysis by increasing our range of high quality outputs. - Increase our focus on embedding ethics in policy making. - Cultivate bioethics networks to strengthen the voice of ethics in biomedicine and health policy in the UK and internationally. - Identify focus priority areas for our work so that we concentrate on the most important challenges facing society.