The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA

Abstract #50764

Bruce Jennings, The Hastings Center, Garrison, NY 10524, 845-424-4040, jennings@thehastingscenter.org, Jeff Kahn, PhD, MPH, Center for Biomedical Ethics, University of Minnesota, Suite N504 Boynton, 410 Church Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455-0345, Lisa Parker, PhD, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Education, University of Pittsburgh - Center for Bioethics and Health Law, Medical Arts Building, Suite 300; 3708 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, and Anna Mastroianni, JD, MPH, University of Washington School of Law & Institute for Public Health Genetics, 1100 NE Campus Parkway, Seattle, WA 98105.

Today there is a growing interest in the practical ethical dilemmas and value-laden decisions that arise in public health. This panel will present the work of a collaborative group that has reviewed the main types of ethical issues in the field and has developed a model curriculum designed for use in both educational programs and in-service settings. This group brought together ethicists from the University of Minnesota, the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Washington, and The Hastings Center, working in collaboration with the Association of Schools of Public Health. This effort was supported by HRSA, the Greenwall Foundation, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The panel will consist of the following presentations:

1. The presentation of a general framework of principles and issues. Bruce Jennings (The Hastings Center) and Jeffrey Kahn (University of Minnesota)

2. A discussion of the public health ethics curriculum providing background on the strategy of its development and an overview of its content. Lisa Parker (University of Pittsburgh) and Bruce Jennings (The Hastings Center).

3. An in-depth presentation of one curriculum module on Public Health Genetics. Anna Mastroianni (University of Washington) and Jeffrey Kahn (University of Minnesota)

Learning Objectives: The objectives of this panel are

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• to inform public health educators and practitioners about the importance of ethics and the development of critical reasoning skills regarding value issues in the field; (
• to introduce and demonstrate a significant new educational resource for ethical awareness and reasoning skills in public health; and (
• to provide a forum where different ethical outlooks and strategies of professional education and development can be discussed.

Keywords: Ethics Training, Ethics

Presenting author's disclosure statement:
I do not have any significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.