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War, public health and institutional conflicts of interest
Tuesday, November 18, 2014
: 1:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Wesley Epplin, MPH
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Health & Medicine Policy Research Group, Chicago, IL
This paper focuses on a recent report of the Institute of Medicine (IOM), "Preventing Psychological Disorders in Service Members and their Families." The report, commissioned by the Department of Defense, makes no mention of preventing war, or reducing exposure to combat, as key primary preventive strategies for precluding mental and other public health challenges for troops and thier families. In 2014, The Public Health Working Group on the Primary Prevention of War published the article: The role of public health in the prevention of war: rationale and competencies. Wiist WH, Barker K, Arya N, Rohde J, Donohoe M, White S, Lubens P, Gorman G, Hagopian A. Am J Public Health. 2014 Jun;104(6):e34-47. The co-authors as well as other members of the Public Health Working Group on the Primary Prevention of War group addressed this concern with the IOM, which responded by framing the prevention of war as a moral and political question, not a scientific one. This presentation will consider this report and our exchange with the IOM, the IOM's policy on conflict of interest, and the broader concerns for public health of the military-scientific-industrial complex.
Learning Areas:
Public health or related public policy
Learning Objectives:
Demonstrate potential institutional conflicts of interest related to the topic of the health impacts of war and conflict.
Analyze the intersection of science and politics on the conduct of public health decision-making.
Keyword(s): War, Public Policy
Presenting author's disclosure statement:Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I founded and lead a national collaborative group of public health academics and practitioners for the past 3 years, the Public Health Working Group on Primary Prevention of War. I have co-authored publications on the topic including: Wiist WH, Barker K, Arya N, Rohde J, Donohoe M, White S, Lubens P, Gorman G, Hagopian A. The role of public health in the prevention of war: rationale and competencies. Am J Public Health. 2014 Jun;104(6):e34-47.
Any relevant financial relationships? No
I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines,
and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed
in my presentation.
