Lilly Endowment gives donations to IU for health care research

Lilly Endowment Inc. awarded IU $4 million to help IU respond to ethical, legal and social concerns involved with health care research, treatment and accountability.

The award will fund the formation of the Center for Law, Ethics and Applied Research in Health Information, which will combine the resources of the University with Indiana as a whole. Areas of research will include health sciences, information technology, law, ethics
and others.

The center will also partner with industry and nonprofit groups in Indiana and nationwide to improve quality, efficiency and affordability of health care.

The center is a by product of collaboration between IU’s Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research and the Center for Bioethics at the IU School of Medicine.

The center will have four directors, three of whom are University affiliated. They will be joined by Stanley Crosley, the former chief privacy officer of Eli Lilly and Co.

IU’s funding proposal for the endowment was supported by the School of Informatics and Computing, the Maurer School of Law, the School of Medicine and the Office of the Vice President for Information Technology.
        
— Molly Johnson