Centre for Health Ethics, Law and History is a unit of the Institute of Public Health at the Medical Faculty of Vilnius University. The Centre was established in 2002. Since its establishment the Centre has been chaired by Prof. Dr. Eugenijus Gefenas.

The main mission of the Centre is to introduce medical humanities into the curriculum of future health care professionals.

This mission is being fulfilled by the following activities:

1. Preparation of medical history and bioethics training aids and educational syllabi
2. Initiating and organizing research in the field of bioethics and history of medicine
3. International collaboration
4. Promoting bioethics and the history of medicine in Lithuania

The Centre takes an active part in international collaboration. One example of such a collaboration is the Regional Bioethics Information Centre supported by UNESCO. It was established at the premises of the Department in 2004.