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PUBH 6040 - Public Health Ethics (3)

This course provides an overview of values and principles in public health ethics comparing and contrasting them with those of biomedical ethics. Students will critically examine selected cases that illustrate a range of public health ethical issues (e.g., ethics in disease screening programs, environmental justice, global public health research, etc.), identify ethical problems, and use selected strategies to arrive at reasoned ethical positions. Prerequisite(s): Admission to the public health program or permission of advisor for students using course as an elective in other disciplines.