Public Health Ethics

The Berman Institute leads several education and training programs in bioethics and public health including a PhD program in bioethics and health policy and global bioethics training for individuals from Africa.  The Berman Institute leads course work in public health ethics, genetics policy, ethics and health policy, global public health ethics, food ethics, and ethical issues in U.S. and international public health research.

Berman Institute scholarship in the ethics of public health and health policy is wide and deep. Faculty have been involved with creating foundational frameworks for public health ethics and seminal work on social justice and public health; have worked on many empirical and conceptual projects on public health preparedness, on dozens of empirical and conceptual projects on ethics and infectious diseases including related to HIV, TB, malaria, influenza, HPV, and Ebola;  projects on ethics and health policies including appropriate Medicaid funding, incorporating social justice into economic evaluations of treatments, and ethical implications of health reform; and a considerable and growing program in global and domestic food ethics.

The following links connect to ongoing and previously completed work, demonstrating the Berman Institute’s leadership and achievements in advancing understanding of research ethics.

• The Global Food Ethics Initiative
• The Bellagio Meeting on Social Justice and Influenza
• Community Values and the Allocation of Scarce Medical Resources in Disasters – A Public Engagement Project
• PHASES – Pregnancy and HIV/AIDS: Seeking Equitable Study
• Pregnancy Research Ethics for Vaccines, Epidemics, and New Technologies (PREVENT)
• Center for Bridging Genomics, Infectious Disease, and Society (BRIDGES)
• Ethics Issues in Outbreak Containment in Low and Middle Income Countries