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Why You Should Support BEI

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As the premier organization dedicated to providing person-centered and disaster preparedness ethics programs for the healthcare, life science and biotechnology sectors, BEI is committed to long-term results. Your support directly funds a current or future doctor, nurse, scientist, executive, policy-maker or other key decision-maker's education, training and advisement on critical ethical issues. BEI's unique industry approach is key to permanently transforming patient care and empowering responsible decision-making - so that innovations don't just heal, fuel, and feed the world, but heal, fuel, and feed the world responsibly and justly.

You will also be supporting a resolution from the United Nations' (UNESCO) Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights - to provide bioethics education, training and information... to achieve respect for human dignity, human rights and fundamental freedoms, as well as the below indirect benefits.

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Top 10 Benefits of Ethics

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  1. Decreased risk of ethics violations by professionals and institutions that harm patients and expose professionals and organizations to legal liability and damaged reputations1
  2. More informed, effective and responsible professionals and institutions with practical guidelines and frameworks for making ethical decisions
  3. Improved quality of patient care and public safety and health
  4. Strengthened trust between the public and the healthcare, life science and biotechnology sectors
  5. Improved affordability and access to medical care and scientific and technological developments
  6. Greater protection of human vulnerabilities and of individuals and groups of special vulnerability
  7. Greater understanding and promotion of human dignity
  8. Responsible conservation of national healthcare resources and costs
  9. Better safeguarding and promotion of the interests of the present and future generations, of solidarity and of social-cohesion
  10. Increased dialogue and understanding between all stakeholders and within society of actual, potential and emerging ethical issues in practice, daily, during disasters and regarding the environment


1 Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Inspector General. Summary Report of Combined Assessment Program Reviews at the Veterans Health Administration Medical Facilities, April 2001 Through September 2002. Report No. 02-018211-28.