Against the backdrop of an increasingly polarized world, where misinformation and broken trust impede people’s ability to have deep conversations and listen to one another, The Hastings Center for Bioethics fills an important gap and creates opportunities for exchanges that rarely happen elsewhere.

• We address critical bioethical issues facing professional practice and public policy.
• We promote collaborative deliberative exchanges that foster an inclusive, equitable, intellectually rich, and well-informed discourse, in the service of society. 
• We aspire for these exchanges to result in recommendations and guidelines that help patients and families, healthcare providers and systems, the scientific community, policy makers, and society at large.

Founded in 1969 by philosopher Daniel Callahan and psychoanalyst Willard Gaylin, The Hastings Center for bioethics is the oldest independent, nonpartisan, interdisciplinary research institute of its kind in the world. 

Philanthropy typically accounts for 45% of The Hastings Center for Bioethics’s annual revenue.