As science, technology, and medicine advance, society will confront new ethical dilemmas at the nexus of public health policy and individual choice. The Master of Arts in Bioethics at the College of Global Public Health provides a strong philosophical foundation for navigating these urgent questions.
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Fall Humanistic Medicine Program Seminar Pandemics: History, Ethics, and Policy
October 18, 2023 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
The Humanistic Medicine Program is excited to announce the seminar being offered to faculty this fall. Please see the information below to register.
Pandemics: History, Ethics, and Policy
This course will consider the ethical issues surrounding vaccination seen through the lens of history, with an emphasis on COVID-19. Topics will include a history of vaccines; the ethics surrounding their research, development, and distribution; vaccine hesitancy and strategies for confronting it; vaccine nationalism and global distribution; the extraordinary public/private vaccine partnership known as Operation Warp Speed; and the new vaccine technologies that are revolutionizing the field.
- Dates: Wednesdays from 5:30-7pm via Zoom on October 18, 25, November 1, 8
- Facilitators: Art Caplan (Director, Division of Medical Ethics) and David Oshinsky (Director, Division of Medical Humanities)
- Register for Pandemics: History, Ethics, and Policy here
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