A safe space for your questions
Addressing Medical-Religious Ethical Dilemmas
Taking a converging approach to health, religion and ethics in order to connect you to appropriate resources.
The Muslim Health Ethics Project is a space where Muslim women and Muslims of marginalized identities can safely ask questions about their medical dilemmas and unique concerns as they relate to Islam and health/healthcare.
Once responses are received, our multidisciplinary team will collaborate to provide evidence-based resources. Our team is composed of experts in Islamic studies, bioethics, and medicine including OB/GYN, pediatrics, family medicine, palliative care, and oncology. The resources provided to respondents will be shared on our website as a framework that will be accessible to the community.
Possible Topics of Inquiry
Including but not limited to:
Pregnancy ❋ Abortion and pregnancy termination ❋ Sexual and gynecologic health ❋ Reproductive technologies (eg. IVF, surrogacy) ❋ Breastfeeding ❋ Contraception ❋ Fetal death ❋ Mental health ❋ Cancer ❋ Pediatrics ❋ Hospice care ❋ End-of-life decisions ❋ Elder care ❋ Medications and prescriptions ❋ Transplants ❋ Organ donations ❋ Autopsies ❋ Stem cell research ❋ Cosmetic surgery
Why Engage With MHEP?
Safe & Non-judgemental
Submit any questions you may have safely without fear of judgment.
Evidence Based Resources
Get responses from our multidisciplinary team of Islamic studies, bioethics, and medical experts.
Community Focused
Anonymized resources are shared on our website to benefit the entire community.
Holistic Support
Our team aims to address the intersection between religion, personal experience, medicine, and healthcare.
Our Mission
The primary goal of this project is to connect you to relevant resources, and provide a path to answers for your medical/ethical/religious questions.
The Muslim Health Ethics Project provides evidence-based resources through our multidisciplinary team of experts in Islamic studies, bioethics, and medicine. Our ultimate goal is to offer a reliable tool to support Muslim women and Muslims who identify as having marginalized identities in their medical decision-making processes.
About Our Labs
MeRGE Lab (Harvard Medical School)
Led by Sarrah Shahawy, MD, MPH, the Muslim Reproductive Global Health Engagement lab (MeRGE) employs a strengths-based approach to the study of reproductive health at the intersection of religion, culture, and socio-political context with a focus on Muslim reproductive health (both in Muslim-majority and diaspora contexts), global health in the Middle East and North Africa, and immigrant/refugee health.
DIEL (Dartmouth College)
The Dartmouth Islamic Ethics Lab (DIEL) is a humanities lab led by Professor Zahra Ayubi, Ph.D. at Dartmouth College that researches new and enduring ethical questions and develops feminist-Islamic philosophical ethics approaches. Muslim women’s experiences in medical decision making and Islamic medical ethics are a special area of research among other philosophical ethics topics.