#PublicHealthEthics #PHEthix #Bioethics #PublicHealthLaw #PHLaw #TBI #CollisionSports #PopulationLevelBioethics #InjuryEpidemiology #InjuryPrevention #EpiSky #SocialEpi #SocEpi
8/8
8/8
September 28, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Such an important report, and full of issues that are very concerning from the perspective of health justice - a principle we have been working on and for for many years in the fields of #bioethics and #publichealthethics and #healthjustice.
Israel is deliberately depriving people of aid in #Gaza.
MSF’s new report shows how restrictions blocked medical supplies, sometimes even forcing our teams to perform procedures without anesthesia.
Read the report: ow.ly/YZ8v50WZFBs
MSF’s new report shows how restrictions blocked medical supplies, sometimes even forcing our teams to perform procedures without anesthesia.
Read the report: ow.ly/YZ8v50WZFBs
September 23, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Such an important report, and full of issues that are very concerning from the perspective of health justice - a principle we have been working on and for for many years in the fields of #bioethics and #publichealthethics and #healthjustice.
*psst*
QALYs are still problematic pass it on
#PublicHealthEthics #DisabilityConsciousBioethics #StructuralViolence
QALYs are still problematic pass it on
#PublicHealthEthics #DisabilityConsciousBioethics #StructuralViolence
Ethical Shortcomings of QALY: Discrimination Against Minorities in Public Health | Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics | Cambridge Core
Ethical Shortcomings of QALY: Discrimination Against Minorities in Public Health - Volume 34 Issue 1
www.cambridge.org
September 17, 2025 at 8:56 PM
*psst*
QALYs are still problematic pass it on
#PublicHealthEthics #DisabilityConsciousBioethics #StructuralViolence
QALYs are still problematic pass it on
#PublicHealthEthics #DisabilityConsciousBioethics #StructuralViolence
more on ABR ... #PHEthx #PublicHealthEthics #PHLaw #PublicHealthLaw #InfectiousDiseaseEthics #GlobalHealthLaw
Pandemic Laws Still Leave Antimicrobial Resistance in the Cold - Petrie-Flom Center petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2025/09/03/p...
Pandemic Laws Still Leave Antimicrobial Resistance in the Cold - Petrie-Flom Center
Over the past five years, governments have rewritten global health law at a rapid pace. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, states revised the International Health Regulations (IHR) in 2024 and sign...
petrieflom.law.harvard.edu
September 3, 2025 at 3:28 PM
This is not my area but it's always awesome to see open calls in prominent #Bioethics journals focusing on #PublicHealthEthics.
Australasia, leading in this space, as usual!
cc'ing @dsilvaphd.bsky.social for any additional details of which may be informed
#PHEthx #InfectiousDiseaseEthics
Australasia, leading in this space, as usual!
cc'ing @dsilvaphd.bsky.social for any additional details of which may be informed
#PHEthx #InfectiousDiseaseEthics
Call for Papers
Special Issue in the Monash Bioethics Review SpringerEthics
Antimicrobial Resistance, Historical Responsibility & Intergenerational Justice
Funding support for open access
Deadline: 01 April 2026
link.springer.com/collections/...
Contact: romina.rekers@uni-graz.at
Special Issue in the Monash Bioethics Review SpringerEthics
Antimicrobial Resistance, Historical Responsibility & Intergenerational Justice
Funding support for open access
Deadline: 01 April 2026
link.springer.com/collections/...
Contact: romina.rekers@uni-graz.at
September 3, 2025 at 3:11 PM
This is not my area but it's always awesome to see open calls in prominent #Bioethics journals focusing on #PublicHealthEthics.
Australasia, leading in this space, as usual!
cc'ing @dsilvaphd.bsky.social for any additional details of which may be informed
#PHEthx #InfectiousDiseaseEthics
Australasia, leading in this space, as usual!
cc'ing @dsilvaphd.bsky.social for any additional details of which may be informed
#PHEthx #InfectiousDiseaseEthics
#sundayvibes #firstfullyearofgradschool #postjd #bioethics #publichealth #clinicalethics #publichealthethics #gratefulthankfulblessed
August 24, 2025 at 12:01 PM
A little of what I've been doing this summer to build a foundation in clinical and public health ethics.
#bioethics #publichealth #medicalhumanities #clinicalethics #publichealthethics #cwru
#bioethics #publichealth #medicalhumanities #clinicalethics #publichealthethics #cwru
August 22, 2025 at 1:31 PM
A little of what I've been doing this summer to build a foundation in clinical and public health ethics.
#bioethics #publichealth #medicalhumanities #clinicalethics #publichealthethics #cwru
#bioethics #publichealth #medicalhumanities #clinicalethics #publichealthethics #cwru
The right to health is non-negotiable. Article 25 of the UDHR and the FCTC are clear. Yet vested interests continue to distort public health priorities for gain. We must demand better. #HumanRights #PublicHealthEthics #GlobalHealth bit.ly/4kVQASY
August 8, 2025 at 3:17 AM
The right to health is non-negotiable. Article 25 of the UDHR and the FCTC are clear. Yet vested interests continue to distort public health priorities for gain. We must demand better. #HumanRights #PublicHealthEthics #GlobalHealth bit.ly/4kVQASY
Shocking detail: Even official Bangladeshi government programs partner with U.S.-based advocacy groups. Should foreign organizations be this embedded in national policymaking? Read the report: bit.ly/450pULD #PolicyIndependence #PublicHealthEthics #Bangladesh
August 3, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Shocking detail: Even official Bangladeshi government programs partner with U.S.-based advocacy groups. Should foreign organizations be this embedded in national policymaking? Read the report: bit.ly/450pULD #PolicyIndependence #PublicHealthEthics #Bangladesh
He wished he would have played soccer. His mother wished he would have played golf.
#CTE #TBI #DeepPlay #Violence #Injury #PHEthx #PublicHealthEthics
(He ‘found his place in the world’ through football. But CTE would lead to 15 years of suffering)
#CTE #TBI #DeepPlay #Violence #Injury #PHEthx #PublicHealthEthics
(He ‘found his place in the world’ through football. But CTE would lead to 15 years of suffering)
He ‘found his place in the world’ through football. But CTE would lead to 15 years of suffering
Greg Newman found love and purpose in football. It would ultimately be part of what ended his life.
www.nytimes.com
July 26, 2025 at 9:09 PM
A must read on vaccine mandates, for those interested in the topic, and whether they equate to coercion:
jme.bmj.com/content/earl...
jme.bmj.com/content/earl...
Do vaccine mandates impair the voluntariness of informed consent?
An ethical and legal obligation generally exists for informed consent to be obtained prior to the administration of medical interventions. This includes vaccinations. For an individual’s informed cons...
jme.bmj.com
July 17, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Exactly. I do not understand the basis for an ethical distinction btw allowing vulnerable people to freeze in their homes and allowing vulnerable people to broil in their homes.
Urban heat waves are MAJOR killers, FGS. #PHEthx #PublicHealthEthics #ClimateCrisis #PlanetaryEthics
Urban heat waves are MAJOR killers, FGS. #PHEthx #PublicHealthEthics #ClimateCrisis #PlanetaryEthics
I wonder if Ms Beddington doesn't heat her home in the winter as heating homes cause more environmental damage than a/c.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
How do I feel about air conditioning? I’m very hot – but it’s destroying the planet | Emma Beddington
Yes, temperatures are rising. But more and more AC means more and more CO2 – and then more and more global heating. Let’s have some long-term thinking instead, writes Guardian columnist Emma Beddingto...
www.theguardian.com
July 14, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Exactly. I do not understand the basis for an ethical distinction btw allowing vulnerable people to freeze in their homes and allowing vulnerable people to broil in their homes.
Urban heat waves are MAJOR killers, FGS. #PHEthx #PublicHealthEthics #ClimateCrisis #PlanetaryEthics
Urban heat waves are MAJOR killers, FGS. #PHEthx #PublicHealthEthics #ClimateCrisis #PlanetaryEthics
Undermining research, silencing researchers, and politicizing data weakens an already fragile global health infrastructure. At the risk of hyperbole, with looming catastrophic #climatechange impacts on the horizon this is a waking nightmare.
#sciencepolicy #publichealthethics
#sciencepolicy #publichealthethics
July 3, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Undermining research, silencing researchers, and politicizing data weakens an already fragile global health infrastructure. At the risk of hyperbole, with looming catastrophic #climatechange impacts on the horizon this is a waking nightmare.
#sciencepolicy #publichealthethics
#sciencepolicy #publichealthethics
Have you read David Oshinksky’s outstanding book, “Polio: An American Story”. To think that the great #publichealth victories over dread diseases like polio could be overturned by the poisonous minds of RFK Jr et al, is a sickening tragedy. #publichealthethics #vaccines
June 27, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Have you read David Oshinksky’s outstanding book, “Polio: An American Story”. To think that the great #publichealth victories over dread diseases like polio could be overturned by the poisonous minds of RFK Jr et al, is a sickening tragedy. #publichealthethics #vaccines
So just FYI screening ethics is a complex, fascinating, and wildly understudied area of public health ethics and population-level bioethics.
I work on it some and have drafted some cases for it in my OER casebook. #PHEthx #Bioethics #PublicHealthEthics
I work on it some and have drafted some cases for it in my OER casebook. #PHEthx #Bioethics #PublicHealthEthics
Casebook | Public Health Ethics & Law Program | Colorado School of Public Health
coloradosph.cuanschutz.edu
May 19, 2025 at 3:30 AM
So just FYI screening ethics is a complex, fascinating, and wildly understudied area of public health ethics and population-level bioethics.
I work on it some and have drafted some cases for it in my OER casebook. #PHEthx #Bioethics #PublicHealthEthics
I work on it some and have drafted some cases for it in my OER casebook. #PHEthx #Bioethics #PublicHealthEthics
About to give a presentation and facilitate small group sessions with 100 members of a LHD on “Moral Distress in the Public Health Workforce” #PublicHealthEthics #WeExist
a man says " use my knowledge i beg you " in front of a statue
Alt: Palpatine " use my knowledge i beg you " in front of a statue
media.tenor.com
April 2, 2025 at 4:43 PM
About to give a presentation and facilitate small group sessions with 100 members of a LHD on “Moral Distress in the Public Health Workforce” #PublicHealthEthics #WeExist
Deeply grateful to have had the opportunity for mini-research stay in London-Oxford-Edinburgh with @profwilson.bsky.social, @tamara-l.bsky.social, @agomoni.bsky.social to refresh #publichealthethics ideas with lovely & much missed colleagues and work on grant proposal.Much 💕 for people & landscapes!
March 26, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Deeply grateful to have had the opportunity for mini-research stay in London-Oxford-Edinburgh with @profwilson.bsky.social, @tamara-l.bsky.social, @agomoni.bsky.social to refresh #publichealthethics ideas with lovely & much missed colleagues and work on grant proposal.Much 💕 for people & landscapes!
Teaching this stellar article from @wrigleyfield.bsky.social and company, as I do virtually every term in every class. It's so devastating and yet perfect for work on #StructuralViolence, #StructuralRacism, and #PublicHealthEthics.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Racial Inequality in the Prime of Life: Infectious Disease Mortality in U.S. Cities, 1906–1933 | Social Science History | Cambridge Core
Racial Inequality in the Prime of Life: Infectious Disease Mortality in U.S. Cities, 1906–1933 - Volume 47 Issue 3
www.cambridge.org
February 18, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Teaching this stellar article from @wrigleyfield.bsky.social and company, as I do virtually every term in every class. It's so devastating and yet perfect for work on #StructuralViolence, #StructuralRacism, and #PublicHealthEthics.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
And also, the important and pathbreaking work of health & disability law scholar @dorfmandoron.bsky.social on the "fear of the disability con"
#PHLaw #PHEthx #PublicHealthLaw #PublicHealthEthics #HistoryAndPolicy #WhatIsNewIsOld #Malingering #StigmaStudies #PolicyStudies #HistoryMatters
6/6
#PHLaw #PHEthx #PublicHealthLaw #PublicHealthEthics #HistoryAndPolicy #WhatIsNewIsOld #Malingering #StigmaStudies #PolicyStudies #HistoryMatters
6/6
Pandemic “Disability Cons” | Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics | Cambridge Core
Pandemic “Disability Cons” - Volume 49 Issue 3
www.cambridge.org
February 5, 2025 at 4:47 PM
And also, the important and pathbreaking work of health & disability law scholar @dorfmandoron.bsky.social on the "fear of the disability con"
#PHLaw #PHEthx #PublicHealthLaw #PublicHealthEthics #HistoryAndPolicy #WhatIsNewIsOld #Malingering #StigmaStudies #PolicyStudies #HistoryMatters
6/6
#PHLaw #PHEthx #PublicHealthLaw #PublicHealthEthics #HistoryAndPolicy #WhatIsNewIsOld #Malingering #StigmaStudies #PolicyStudies #HistoryMatters
6/6
Seventy. One. Thousand. Excess. Deaths.
😱😭😭 #PHEthx #PublicHealthEthics #PopulationLevelBioethics #PopulationHealth #EpiSky #WhatKindOfPeople
😱😭😭 #PHEthx #PublicHealthEthics #PopulationLevelBioethics #PopulationHealth #EpiSky #WhatKindOfPeople
📊 Key finding: In 2023, mortality in this age group was 70% higher than expected based on pre-2011 trends. That translates to over 71,000 excess deaths—far beyond pre-pandemic levels. These numbers underscore a persistent and growing public health crisis. (2/6)
February 3, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Seventy. One. Thousand. Excess. Deaths.
😱😭😭 #PHEthx #PublicHealthEthics #PopulationLevelBioethics #PopulationHealth #EpiSky #WhatKindOfPeople
😱😭😭 #PHEthx #PublicHealthEthics #PopulationLevelBioethics #PopulationHealth #EpiSky #WhatKindOfPeople
All interested in teaching #publichealthethics - welcome to our event coming up with Prof. Alison Thompson (U Toronto) and @profgoldberg.bsky.social (U Colorado). Monday, Jan 27th, 2025, 7:30pm - approx. 8:30 pm (CET/German time zone) #bioethics @iehhs.bsky.social www.uni-augsburg.de/de/fakultaet...
Upcoming Events
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January 23, 2025 at 2:36 PM
All interested in teaching #publichealthethics - welcome to our event coming up with Prof. Alison Thompson (U Toronto) and @profgoldberg.bsky.social (U Colorado). Monday, Jan 27th, 2025, 7:30pm - approx. 8:30 pm (CET/German time zone) #bioethics @iehhs.bsky.social www.uni-augsburg.de/de/fakultaet...
We gonna talk about the things #ITeech #ProfessionalTeacher #ScholarTeacher #Engels #PublicHealthEthics
January 9, 2025 at 7:08 PM
We gonna talk about the things #ITeech #ProfessionalTeacher #ScholarTeacher #Engels #PublicHealthEthics
Public health surveillance can violate canons of health justice either by being insufficient or by being excessive.
(That is: Sometimes surveillance is the ethical problem and sometimes the lack thereof is the ethical problem).
Amy Fairchild is aces on this, as on so much. #PublicHealthEthics
(That is: Sometimes surveillance is the ethical problem and sometimes the lack thereof is the ethical problem).
Amy Fairchild is aces on this, as on so much. #PublicHealthEthics
December 20, 2024 at 3:35 AM
Public health surveillance can violate canons of health justice either by being insufficient or by being excessive.
(That is: Sometimes surveillance is the ethical problem and sometimes the lack thereof is the ethical problem).
Amy Fairchild is aces on this, as on so much. #PublicHealthEthics
(That is: Sometimes surveillance is the ethical problem and sometimes the lack thereof is the ethical problem).
Amy Fairchild is aces on this, as on so much. #PublicHealthEthics
"[Lawmakers pointed to the high costs of the program and the way the money had been spent: at least $40 million as of June, with more than 80 percent going to administrative and consulting costs."
#HealthPolicy #Stigma #Medicaid #WorkRequirements #PHEthx #PublicHealthEthics #Bioethics
#HealthPolicy #Stigma #Medicaid #WorkRequirements #PHEthx #PublicHealthEthics #Bioethics
Senators Call for Inquiry Into Georgia’s Medicaid Work Requirement Program
A group of Democratic lawmakers accused Georgia Pathways to Coverage, the only Medicaid work requirement program in the country, of spending little of its funding on health benefits.
www.nytimes.com
December 18, 2024 at 9:58 PM
"[Lawmakers pointed to the high costs of the program and the way the money had been spent: at least $40 million as of June, with more than 80 percent going to administrative and consulting costs."
#HealthPolicy #Stigma #Medicaid #WorkRequirements #PHEthx #PublicHealthEthics #Bioethics
#HealthPolicy #Stigma #Medicaid #WorkRequirements #PHEthx #PublicHealthEthics #Bioethics