Join us 3-5 September 2025 for the 16th National Paediatrics Bioethics Conference at The Royal Children's Hospital!

When providing clinical care, uncertainty or conflict can arise over the best course of action to take. Clinical ethics can offer ways to think through many of the challenging issues that confront us when analysing situations and weighing up treatment options when caring for a child and their family. This work of moral deliberation is informed by the theoretical frameworks offered by the field of bioethics. So how valuable and relevant are bioethical theories to clinical ethics and everyday clinical practice? In this year’s conference we explore the contribution of bioethics and ethical principles to aspects of paediatric care.

Conference runs from Wednesday 3rd- Friday 5th September, 2025

Keynote speakers:

International Keynote : Prof. John McMillan, Otago Bioethics Centre, Dunedin NZ

Wednesday 3 September, 12:30 - 1:30pm

"Socrates in the clinic: the role of ethical analysis in health care" 

National Keynote: A/Prof Rosalind McDougall, University of Melbourne 

Thursday 4 September, 12:30 - 1:30pm

"How can we make better ethical decisions in practice?"

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Past Bioethics Conferences

• 15th National Paediatric Bioethics Conference 2024: The Cases We Carry

• 14th National Paediatric Bioethics Conference 2023: The Ethics of Innovation
• 13th National Paediatric Bioethics Conference 2022: Dialogue Across Difference
  
• 12th National Paediatric Bioethics Conference 2021: Deciding with Children 
  
• Covid E-Conference: Ethical Reflections on COVID-19 in Paediatric Healthcare 2020
  
• 11th Bioethics Conference 2019
  Listen to some Highlight sessions from the 11th CBC Bioethics Conference:
  - Respect- A Socratic dialogue (41.05min)
  - Respecting a family's cultural and religious beliefs & practices (25.51min)
  - The Twilight Zone (25.35min)
  - Blended food for tube feeding a child- ethical considerations (46.58min)
  - Negotiating diverse cultural & religious differences in a paediatric hospital (1.02 hr)  
  
• 10th Bioethics Conference 2018 
• 9th Bioethics Conference 2017 
• 8th Bioethics Conference 2016 
• 7th Bioethics Conference 2015 
• 6th Bioethics Conference 2014
• 5th Bioethics Conference 2013
• 2nd Bioethics Conference 2010
• 1st Bioethics Conference 2009