141st APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition

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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

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Integrating public health ethics into day to day decision making


Sunday, November 3, 2013 : 11:10 a.m. - 11:25 a.m.

Ruth Gaare Bernheim, JD, MPH, MPH Program, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
This session will be used to summarize the information presented during the overall workshop and to provide some practical tips for how participants can implement the tools presented during the workshop once they return to the their public health practices.

Learning Areas:

Ethics, professional and legal requirements

Learning Objectives:
Formulate next steps so participants can implement the lessons learned from the session.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am the Chair of the Department of Public Health Sciences in the School of Medicine, University of Virginia (UV). I also am the Associate Director for the Institute for Practical Ethics and Public Life at UV. For many years, I have served as the Co-director for the Ethics Committee of the Public Health Leadership Society and have consulted with this group about implementing the Public Health Code of Ethics.
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: 2012.0: Good decision making in real time: Practical public health ethics for local and state health officials in the US -- Fee: $250