The Wylie Burke Endowed Scholarship supports UW graduate and undergraduate students studying the social, ethical, and policy dimensions of health research and healthcare. Preference is given to students affiliated with the Department of Bioethics & Humanities, although students from other UW departments are eligible. Awarded annually, the $1,000 one-year scholarship may be used toward tuition, books, fees, travel to professional meetings, or other educational expenses.
Eligibility: This scholarship opportunity is open to all eligible students regardless of race, sex, or other identity.
Application requirements: Complete the application, including writing prompts, and upload one letter of recommendation from a UW professor (B H affiliated preferred).
This scholarship honors Wylie Burke, MD, PhD who is Professor Emeritus and served as Chair of the Department of Bioethics & Humanities from 2000–2014. She led the Center for Genomics and Healthcare Equality for a decade, advancing efforts to ensure that developments in genomic science benefit all sectors of society, particularly communities experiencing health disparities. Central to her work has been a commitment to community engagement, inclusive partnerships, and creating meaningful learning opportunities for students, faculty, and community collaborators, including long-standing relationships with Native American and Alaska Native communities. By supporting students studying the social, ethical, and policy dimensions of health research and healthcare, this scholarship reflects Dr. Burke’s belief in education and collaborative research as pathways to meaningful change.
The 2026 application cycle is now open, apply by June 5, 2026!
Learn about what Plymouth Housing is doing to bridge efforts between the housing, healthcare and social services sector to better serve our unhoused community. Learn how structural changes made between these sectors can create greater ethical impact while improving health outcomes, quality of life, and equity.
Objectives:
1. Identify at least 3 major ethical concerns related to integration of health/behavioral health services in PSH.
Please join the Bioethics and Humanities Department on Zoom for a Grand Rounds presentation by Nora Kenworthy, PhD: Crowded Out: The Costs and Consequences of Crowdfunding Healthcare. Dr. Kenworthy will summarize a decade of mixed-methods research on the use of crowdfunding for health care, highlighting core ethical issues with this increasingly popular strategy for helping pay for care.
This presentation is an overview of timeless and emerging topics in reproductive bioethics, with a focus on topics in education and on recent challenges to patient autonomy and practice.
Objectives:
1. Define reproductive bioethics;
2. Describe unique ethical challenges in teaching and practice;
3. Review recent local and national bioethics cases.
About the Speaker:
Medical research for neurological disorders has been limited by the fact that it is ethically difficult to experiment on live people’s brains. In response, scientists have created small (4mm) pieces of human brains in a dish made from human stem calls to experiment upon called human brain organoids. With the same motivation, there are now also animals that have had their brains “humanized” in various ways, result
Please join the Bioethics and Humanities department for a Harborview Ethics Forum presentation by Dr. Alexandra Hernandez, MD, MCR on "Trauma Informed Care."