{| class="infobox borderless" style="width: 23em; text-align: left; font-size: 90%;" |- | colspan="2" style="text-align:center; font-size: 120%;" | university of toronto joint centre for bioethics |- | colspan="2" style="text-align:center;" | 198px| |- ! location | toronto, ontario, canada |- ! affiliated university | university of toronto |- ! website | www.utoronto.ca/jcb |- |} the university of toronto joint centre for bioethics, or jcb, is an academic research centre located on the downtown campus of the university of toronto in toronto, ontario, canada. the joint centre for bioethics is a partnership between the university and 15 affiliated health care organizations in the greater toronto area. the centre studies ethical, health-related topics through research, educational and clinical activities that aim to improve the standard of health care at national and international levels. the centre consists of a network of over 180 multidisciplinary professionals, approximately 30 of whom work full-time in bioethics, representing the largest multi-disciplinary group of in-hospital bioethicists in canada."fast facts about the jcb", http://www.utoronto.ca/jcb/about/facts.htm in 2002, the centre was designated the first world health organization collaborating centre in bioethics in 15 years.http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=s0042-96862002000800024whocc - who collaborating centres originally founded as the centre for bioethics in the 1980s by dr. frederick lowy, then dean of the faculty of medicine at the university of toronto, who also served as the centre's first director. in partnership with four toronto hospitals, the joint centre for bioethics was created in 1995, headed by dr. peter a. singer, who served as director until 2006. currently, the director of the centre is dr. jennifer gibson. {| __toc__ |} ==mission, vision, values and goals== the mission of the joint centre for bioethics is to provide leadership in bioethics research, education and clinical activities. the centre's vision is to be a model of interdisciplinary collaboration in order to create new knowledge and improve practices with respect to bioethics. the centre's values include academic and clinical excellence, intellectual freedom, integrity, respect, inclusiveness and justice. however, the centre itself does not advocate positions on specific issues, although its individual members may do so. the goals of the centre are: *to foster interdisciplinary research and scholarship, link education to research, and disseminate research fin
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