Practical Public Health Ethics: Making Good Decisions about Challenging Issues

Overview:

This is a 90-minute recording of a live webinar.

Health officials regularly face tough decisions involving ethics such as allocating scare resources or ensuring that risks and benefits are equitably distributed. This webinar introduces participants to public health ethics, describes practical skills for ethical decision making, and provides links to resources for meeting the new Public Health Accreditation Board standards for addressing ethical issues. We also call attention to the human-centered design approach and highlight Brokered Dialogue, an innovative method for dealing with controversial topics such as establishing Syringe Service Programs to address the opioid crisis. We will conclude by discussing an ethics case study centered on childhood obesity.