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Recorded Annual Meeting Presentations (RAMP) are now available for purchase.
Only $90 for presenters, $140 for registered attendees and $200 for non-attendees.

Online Program

317350
Complementary role of public health ethics and public health law


Saturday, October 31, 2015 : 10:45 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.

Matthew Penn, JD, Office of State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial Support, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA
Montrece McNeill Ransom, JD, MPH, Public Health Law Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA
The purpose of this presentation will be to describe the complementary roles of public health ethics and public health law and how these two fields can best work together to address ethical issues in public health practice.  Examples will be included to illustrate how both law and ethics approach decision making.

Learning Areas:

Administration, management, leadership
Ethics, professional and legal requirements

Learning Objectives:
Demonstrate how public health ethics and law can work together to address ethical challenges.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: Currently, my primary focus is developing and delivering training aimed at increasing the capacity of public health practitioners across governmental levels to understand and use law to advance public health goals. I have presented trainings, taught courses, and published on a broad range of topics including public health emergency law, tribal public health law, health disparities, careers in public health, and environmental public health law.
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.

Back to: 1005.0: Good decision making in real time: Practical public health ethics for health officials--Fee: $300