Symposium on Ethics and Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response

On May 5th, the CAAEPP will host a symposium on Ethics and Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response. Each of the 5 papers in the symposium was commissioned in 2007 by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and they are slated to be published later this year. The goal of the symposium is to bring together a small group of experts from relevant disciplines to discuss the issues raised in these papers with the goal of improving the way that ethical issues are factored into efforts at public health emergency planning, preparedness and response.

Papers:

“Professional, Civic, and Personal Obligations in Emergency Planning and Response”
Angus Dawson, Ph.D.
Senior Lecturer, Centre for Professional Ethics, Keel University.

“Mobilizing Community Preparation and Response for Public Health Emergencies”
Ruth Gaare Bernheim, J.D., H.P.H.
Director, Division of Public Health Policy and Practice, Department of Health Evaluation Sciences, School of Medicine; Associate Director, Institute for Practical Ethics and Public Life, University of Virginia.

“Vulnerable Populations in the Context of Public Health Emergency Preparedness Planning and Response”
Madison Powers, J.D, D.Phil.
Director, Kennedy Institute of Ethics and Professor of Philosophy, Georgetown University

“Research in a Public Health Crisis: The Integrative Approach to Managing the Moral Tensions”
Alex John London, Ph.D.
Director, Center for the Advancement of Applied Ethics and Political Philosophy and Associate Professor of Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University

“Ethical Guidance for Public Health Emergency Preparedness Planning and Response”
John D. Arras, PhD.
Porterfield Professor of Biomedical Ethics and Professor of Philosophy, University of Virginia
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Bruce Jennings, PhD.
Director, Center for Humans and Nature and Lecturer, Yale University School of Public Health

LaPaglia Lecture '07

Ronald Sandler gave the 2007 LaPaglia Lecture on March 30 titled "Nanotechnology, Environmental Ethics, and Environmental Justice"

Deliberative Democracy Lecture Series

In 2006-2007 the Center co-hosted a Humanites Center Lecture Series on Deliberative Democracy.

Benjamin Barber, Gershon and Carol Kekst Professor of Civil Society and Distinguished University Professor, the University of Maryland

"The Decline of Capitalism and the Infantilist Ethos"

S. M. Amadae, Ohio State University

"The Rationalizing of Capitalist Democracy: Cold War Rationality at a Crossroads with Deliberative Democracy?"

Christian List, London School of Economics

"Deliberation, Single-Peakedness, and the Possibility of Meaningful Democracy"

Vincent Price, Steven H. Chaffee Professor of Communication and Political Science, University of Pennsylvania

"Assessing Deliberative Democracy"

Greg Crowley, Coro Center for Civic Leadership

“Making Citizen Participation Count: Practical issues in Local Deliberative Polling”

Jerry Mackie, University of California, San Diego

"Democracy Defended"

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