Public Health Ethics: Infectious Disease Pandemics and Beyond

Wednesday, February 6th, 2013

12:00-13:00 – Lunch
13:00-13:15 – Public Health Ethics Workshop: Welcome and Introductions
13:15-13:45 – Systems Thinking and Public Health Ethics: Opportunities for Mutual Learning?
• Mr. Max Smith and Dr. Diego Silva
o Dalla Lana School of Public Health and Joint Centre for Bioethics, University of Toronto
13:45-14:30 – In Defence of the Practice of Public Health as the Foundation for Public Health Ethics
• Dr. Angus Dawson, Professor and Director
o Medicine, Ethics, Society, and History Program (MESH), University of Birmingham
14:30-15:00 – Health Break
15:00-15:45 – Title: TBA
• Dr. Jerome Singh, Professor and Director
o Ethics and Law at the Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal
15:45-16:30 – The Role of Pandemic Plans in Ethical Preparedness
• Dr. Adrian Viens, Research Fellow
o Institute for Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, Ruhr-University Bochum
16:30-17:00 – Group Discussion and Concluding Remarks