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Fall 2016
Apr 19, 2024 |
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| PHP 2025 - Ethics of Global Public Health Engagement |
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This course explores the ethics of global public health engagement. The course begins by highlighting the intentional and unintentional exploitation of populations and communities during the course of global public health research and practice. We discuss existing ethical principles for research and professional conduct as well as regulations guiding ethical action. These principles and regulations provide a framework for interrogating and debating the protection of human subjects in public health research and practice, and introspection about our role as global health students, professionals, and advocates. We examine, using case studies, ethical quandaries and complexities that arise. The next portion of the course explores the challenge and promise of community-engaged research, practice, and learning. This portion of the course also explores strategies for finding and establishing meaningful collaborative relationships. Then we examine the challenges of ethical research and practice when working with potentially vulnerable populations. This includes conflicts that occur when ethical norms and guidelines differ across international settings and the complex ethical tensions that can arise when responding to pressing global public health challenges. Special attention is paid to methods for fostering ethical engagement. The final portion of the course provides an in-depth examination of historical, political, and economic forces that shape the context of global public health. This portion of the course also focuses upon roles and responsibilities after studies have completed, or after time in an international location has ended. We provide an overview of how to prepare for IRB. Throughout the course, students integrate what has been learned into a written syntheses that showcase how they plan to thoughtfully and meaningfully implement rigorous ethical approaches in their own global public health work. The course is intended for graduate students and advanced undergraduates. Preferably, students have taken an epidemiology course; having taken PHP 1070 “Burden of Disease in Developing Countries” or another relevant global health course would be helpful. Equivalent introductory-level courses in epidemiology and/or global health, taken at another department/institution with a grade of B or higher, can also satisfy these requirements. Students who have experience in, or concrete plans for substantive global public health work will also be considered.
1.000 Credit hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Public Health Department |
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