for those interested in molecular biology & genomics:

a JD in Law www.law.umn.edu (or call 612-625-3487) with an MS or PhD in Molecular, Cellular, Developmental Biology & Genetics
mcdbg.umn.edu
or call 612-624-7470

for those interested in environmental studies:

a JD with an MS or PhD in Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior
www.cbs.umn.edu/eeb/graduateprogram/
or call 612-624-6770 (current students) or 612-625-5700 (prospective students)

a JD with an MS or PhD in Conservation Biology
www.consbio.umn.edu
or call 612-624-7751

a JD with an MS, PhD, or MPH in Environmental Health
www1.umn.edu/eoh
or call 612-625-0622

a JD with an MS or PhD in Natural Resource Science and Management
www.nrsm.umn.edu
or call 612-624-7683

for those interested in medicine & health policy:

a JD with an MD in Medicine
www.meded.umn.edu
or call 612-625-4930

a JD with an MS or PhD in Health Services Research, Policy & Administration
www.hpm.umn.edu
or call 612-624-9432

a JD with an MPH in Public Health Administration
www.hpm.umn.edu
or call 612-624-9480

a JD with an MPH in Epidemiology
www.epi.umn.edu
or call 612-624-8364

a JD with an MPH in Maternal and Child Health
www.epi.umn.edu/mch
or call 612-626-8644

a JD with an MPH in Community Health Education
www.epi.umn.edu
or call 612-626-2247

for those interested in science & technology policy:

a JD with an MS in Science, Technology & Environmental Policy
www.hhh.umn.edu/academics/gradprograms/ms
or call 612-626-9749

for those interested in drug research & development:

a JD with an MS or PhD in Pharmacology
www.pharmacology.med.umn.edu
or call 612-625-2685

CAREER INFORMATION

University of Minnesota

• College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences
  
• College of Biological Sciences
  
• Law School
  
• Carlson School of Management
  
• School of Public Health
  
• Institute of Technology
  

Other

• Information on Available Fellowships Coming Soon!
  

University of Minnesota

• Anderson Horticultural Library
  
• Anthropology, Department of
  
• Avian Research Center
  
• Bell Museum of Natural History
  
• Biochemistry, Molecular Biology & Biophysics
  
• Bioinformatics Graduate Program
  
• Biological Process Technology Institute
  
• Biomedical Engineering
  
• Biomedical Genomics Center
  
• Biomedical Library
  
• Cedar Creek Natural History Area
  
• Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare
  
• Center for Animal Health & Food Safety
  
• Center for Bioethics
  
• Center for Development of Technological Leadership
  
• Center for Environment and Health Policy
  
• Center for Infectious Disease Research & Policy
  
• Center for Integrated Natural Resources & Agricultural Management
  
• Center for Long-Term Care Administration
  
• Center for Neurobehavioral Development
  
• Center for Urban & Regional Affairs
  
• Center of American Indian & Minority Health
  
• Center on Aging
  
• College of Biological Sciences
  
• College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences
  
• College of Natural Resources
  
• Conservation Biology
  
• Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life Sciences
  
• Ecology, Evolution & Behavior
  
• Entomology, Fisheries, & Wildlife Library
  
• Forest Products Management Development Institute
  
• Forestry Library
  
• Gender, Women, & Sexuality Studies, Department of
  
• Government Publications Library
  
• History of Medicine
  
• History of Science & Technology Program
  
• Horticultural Research Center
  
• Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs
  
• Human Rights Center
  
• Humanities Institute
  
• Imaging Center
  
• Industrial Relations Center
  
• Institute for Global Studies
  
• Institute for Social, Economic & Ecological Sustainability
  
• Institute of Human Genetics
  
• Institute of Medial Biotechnology
  
• Institute of Plant Molecular Genetics
  
• Institute of Technology
  
• Institutional Animal Care & Use Committee
  
• Institutional Biosafety Committee
  
• Lake Itasca Forestry & Biological Station
  
• Law Library
  
• Law School
  
• M.D./Ph.D. Program
  
• Management of Technology Program
  
• Materials Research Science & Engineering Center
  
• Medical School
  
• Medical School - Department of Pharmacology
  
• Medical School - Office of Minority Affairs & Diversity
  
• Microbial & Plant Genomics Institute
  
• Microtechnology Laboratory
  
• Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science
  
• Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture
  
• Minnesota Landscape Arboretum
  
• Minnesota Population Center
  
• Office of Patents & Technology Marketing
  
• Peters Institute of Pharmaceutical Care
  
• Philosophy, Department of
  
• Plant Pathology Library
  
• Program in Human Rights & Medicine
  
• Research Subjects' Protection Programs
  
• Rosemount Agricultural Experiment Station
  
• Rural Health Research Center
  
• Sand Plain Research Farm
  
• School of Public Health
  
• School of Public Health - Division of Environmental & Occupational Health
  
• School of Public Health - Division of Epidemiology
  
• School of Public Health - Health Services Research & Policy
  
• Science & Engineering Library
  
• Sociology, Department of
  
• Stem Cell Institute
  
• UMore Park Rosemount Research & Outreach Center
  
• University of Minnesota Extension Service
  
• Veterinary Medical Library
  
• Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology & Medicine
  
• Water Resources Center
  

Resources In The Twin Cities
The Twin Cities offer further resources and extensive employment opportunities. Here is a sampling:

• Law Firms
• Companies
• Government Entities
• Trade Associations

Professional Organizations
Professional organizations working in this area include:

• Academy Health Advancing Research, Policy, and Practice
  
• American Agricultural Economics Association
  
• American Agricultural Law Association
  
• American Association for Cancer Research
  
• American Association for the Advancement of Science
  
• American Association of Occupational Health Nurses
  
• American Chemical Society
  
• American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
  
• American College of Physicians--American Society of Internal Medicine
  
• American College of Surgeons
  
• American Engineering Association
  
• American Industrial Hygiene Association
  
• American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
  
• American Institute of Chemical Engineers
  
• American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers
  
• American Medical Association
  
• American Nurse's Association
  
• American Petroleum Institute
  
• American Public Health Association
  
• American Society for Bioethics and Humanities
  
• American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
  
• American Society of Agricultural & Biological Engineers
  
• American Society of Civil Engineers
  
• American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics
  
• American Society of Safety Engineers
  
• Association for Practical and Professional Ethics
  
• Canadian Bioethics Society
  
• Institute for Agricultural and Trade Policy
  
• International Association for Bioethics
  
• Minnesota Corn Growers Association
  
• Minnesota Soybean Growers Association
  
• Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America -- PharmaGenomics: A Global Resource
  
• Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, SETAC
  
• Society of Toxicology
  

Journals
Journals publishing work in this area include:

• Agricultural Systems
  
• American Industrial Hygiene Association Journal
  
• American Journal of Bioethics
  
• American Journal of Law & Medicine
  
• American Journal of Public Health
  
• Animal Law
  
• Annals of Internal Medicine
  
• Annals of Occupational Hygiene
  
• Applied Occupational and Environmental Hygiene
  
• Biochemical Pharmacology
  
• Bioethics
  
• British Medical Journal
  
• Cambridge Quarterly of Ethics Journal
  
• Cell
  
• Columbia Journal of Environmental Law
  
• Contemporary Clinical Trials - Elsevier
  
• Drake Journal of Agricultural Law
  
• Ecology Law Quarterly
  
• Environmental Law Reporter
  
• Environmental Science and Technology
  
• Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry
  
• Gene Therapy
  
• Great Plains Natural Resources Journal
  
• Harvard Environmental Law Review
  
• Health Affairs
  
• Health Progress
  
• Healthcare Executive
  
• Human Gene Therapy
  
• Inquiry
  
• IRB: Ethics Human Research
  
• Journal of Agricultural & Human Values
  
• Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics
  
• Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics
  
• Journal of Biological Chemistry
  
• Journal of Clinical Ethics
  
• Journal of Environmental Health
  
• Journal of Gene Medicine
  
• Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law
  
• Journal of Laboratory & Clinical Medicine
  
• Journal of Law and Economics
  
• Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics
  
• Journal of Legal Studies
  
• Journal of Medical Ethics
  
• Journal of Medicine and Philosophy
  
• Journal of Nursing Administration
  
• Journal of Occupational & Environmental Medicine
  
• Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
  
• Journal of Policy Analysis and Management
  
• Journal of Public Health Policy
  
• Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)
  
• Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal
  
• Medical Care Research and Review
  
• Milbank Quarterly
  
• Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology
  
• Molecular Pharmacology
  
• Most-Cited Legal Periodicals - Washington & Lee Law School
  
• Nature
  
• Nature Biotechnology
  
• Nature Genetics
  
• Nature Medicine
  
• New England Journal of Medicine
  
• Oxford Journal of Environmental Law
  
• Penn State Environmental Law Review
  
• Philosophy and Public Affairs
  
• Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  
• Science
  
• The Academy of Management: Executive
  
• The Hastings Center Report
  
• The Lancet
  
• Toxicological Sciences
  
• Trends in Genetics
  

Government
Government agencies doing relevant work include:

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  
• Agricultural Research Service
  
• CDC--Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response
  
• CDC--National Center for Environmental Health
  
• CDC--National Center for Health Statistics
  
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  
• Department of Health and Human Services
  
• Environmental Protection Agency
  
• Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of Human Genetics Research
  
• FDA--Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition
  
• Federal Communications Commission
  
• Food and Drug Administration
  
• Food Safety
  
• Health Resources and Services Administration
  
• Minnesota Department of Health
  
• Minnesota Office of Homeland Security
  
• National Center for Biotechnology Information
  
• National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  
• NIH--Bioethics Resources
  
• NIH--Center for Scientific Review
  
• NIH--National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities
  
• NIH--National Human Genome Research Institute
  
• NIH--National Information Center on Health Services Research & Health Care Technology
  
• NIH--NIEHS Environmental Genome Project
  
• NIH--Pharmacogenetics Resource Network: National Institute of General Medicine
  
• Office for Human Research Protections
  
• Office of Biological and Environmental Research--Human Genome Project
  
• Office of Science and Technology Policy
  
• Office of the Surgeon General
  
• President's Council on Bioethics
  
• Science and Technology Policy Institute
  
• The SNP Consortium LTD
  
• U.S. Department of Agriculture
  
• U.S. Department of Energy
  
• U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
  
• U.S. Patent & Trademark Office
  
• USDA--Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
  
• USDA--Food Safety and Inspection Service
  
• World Health Organization
  

Other Centers & Programs
Centers and programs at other Universities focusing on the ethical, legal, and social issues raised by work in health, environment, and the life sciences include:

• Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University--Department of Epidemiology & Population Health
  
• American College of Physicians--Center for Ethics and Professionalism
  
• American Medical Association--Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs
  
• Australasian Bioethics Information
  
• Baylor College of Medicine--Center for Ethics, Medical & Public Issues
  
• Brown University--Center for Biomedical Ethics
  
• Case Western University--Center for Biomedical Ethics
  
• Center for Ethics and Human Rights
  
• Cleveland State University--Bioethics Center
  
• Columbia University-Center for the Study of Society & Medicine
  
• Cornell University--Cornell Genomics Initiative
  
• Cornell University--Ethical Legal & Social Issues Focus Area
  
• Creighton University Medical Center--Center for Health Policy & Ethics
  
• Duquesne University--Health Care Ethics Center
  
• East Carolina University --The Department of Medical Humanities at The Brody School of Medicine
  
• George Mason University--Center for Health Policy, Research & Ethics
  
• Georgetown University--Center for Clinical Bioethics
  
• Georgetown University--Kennedy Institute of Ethics
  
• Gonzaga Ethics Institute
  
• Harvard School of Public Health--Program on Ethical Issues in International Health Research
  
• Harvard University Medical School--Division of Medical Ethics
  
• Harvard University--The François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights
  
• Hastings Center
  
• Howard University--National Human Genome Center
  
• Iowa State University--Bioethics Program
  
• Johns Hopkins University--Center for Civilian Biodefense Studies
  
• Johns Hopkins University--Center for Law and the Public's Health
  
• Johns Hopkins University--Genetics & Public Policy Center
  
• Johns Hopkins University--Phoebe R. Berman Bioethics Institute
  
• Lahey Clinic Medical Center--Section of Medical Ethics
  
• Lawrence University--Program in Biomedical Ethics
  
• Loma Linda University--Center for Christian Bioethics
  
• Loyola Marymount University--The Bioethics Institute
  
• Medical College of Wisconsin--Center for the Study of Bioethics
  
• Michigan State University--Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences (CEHLS)
  
• Midwest Bioethics Center
  
• National Catholic Bioethics Center
  
• National Center for Ethics in Health Care
  
• New York Academy of Medicine
  
• New York University School of Medicine--Sackler Institute of Graduate Biomedical Studies
  
• New York University--Engelberg Center for Innovation Law and Policy
  
• NIH--Department of Clinical Bioethics
  
• Oregon Health & Science University--Center for Ethics in Health Care
  
• Pace Environmental Program
  
• Park Ridge Center for Health, Faith & Ethics
  
• Princeton University--Center for Human Values
  
• Princeton University--The University Center for Human Values
  
• South Illinois University School of Medicine--Department of Medical Humanities
  
• St. Louis University--Center for Health Care Ethics
  
• Stanford Environmental Law Society and Journal
  
• Stanford School of Medicine--Center for Biomedical Ethics (SCBE)
  
• Tuskegee University--National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care
  
• UCLA Environmental Law Center
  
• Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
  
• University of Arizona--Arizona Health Sciences Center
  
• University of Buffalo--Center for Clinical Ethics and Humanities in Health Care
  
• University of California Berkeley--Society for Bioethics
  
• University of California Irvine--Program in Medical Ethics
  
• University of California Los Angeles--Program in Medical Ethics
  
• University of Chicago--Maclean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics
  
• University of Illinois at Chicago--Department of Medical Humanities
  
• University of Iowa Medical School--Program in Biomedical Ethics and Medical Humanities
  
• University of Michigan--Life Sciences and Society
  
• University of Missouri--The Medical and Public Health Law Site
  
• University of Nevada--Program in Medical Ethics
  
• University of South Carolina--Center for Bioethics & Medical Humanities
  
• University of South Florida--Division of Medical Ethics & Humanities
  
• University of Southern California--Pacific Center for Health Policy & Ethics
  
• University of Tennessee--The Center for Applied and Professional Ethics (CAPE)
  
• University of Texas Medical Branch--Institute for the Medical Humanities
  
• University of Utah--The Division of Medical Ethics
  
• University of Virginia--Center for Biomedical Ethics
  
• University of Washington Medical School--Department of Medical History and Ethics
  
• University of Washington School of Law - - Health Law Program
  
• University of Washington--Institute for Public Health Genetics
  
• University of Wisconsin--Program in Medical Ethics
  
• Vanderbilt University Medical Center--Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society
  
• Vermont Law School's Environmental Law Center
  
• World Health Orginization--Bioethics Unit
  

Law, Medicine & the Life Sciences
Centers dealing with Health Law & Bioethics include:

• American Society for Bioethics and Humanities
  
• Bioethics at UPenn
  
• Boston University--Law, Medicine & Ethics Program
  
• Center for the Study of Bioethics
  
• Centre for Bioethics and Health Law--International Association of Bioethics
  
• Chicago-Kent College of Law--Institute for Science, Law & Technology
  
• Georgetown University--Center for Clinical Bioethics
  
• Johns Hopkins University--Center for Law and the Public's Health
  
• Kennedy Institute of Ethics
  
• Loyola University Chicago--Institute for Health Law
  
• Presidents's Council on Bioethics
  
• St. Louis University--Center for Health Law Studies
  
• The Hastings Center
  
• University of Houston--Health Law and Policy Institute
  
• University of Maryland--The Law & Health Care Program
  
• University of Pittsburgh--Center for Bioethics and Health Law
  
• University of Texas--Health Science Center at Houston
  
• West Virginia University Health Science Center--The Center for Health Ethics and Law