Departments of Medicine and Medical Ethics, The Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, Department of Surgery, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, and International Children’s Heart Foundation, Memphis, Tennessee, and Department of Surgery and Institute of Human Values in Health Care, South Carolina Clinical and Translational Research ...

Spectacular achievements in the health of individuals have not been matched by equivalent improvement in the health of whole populations. Indeed it is against the background of deterioration in levels of population health in some parts of the world and the emergence and re-emergence of infectious diseases in association with powerful globalizing forces that there has been a recrudescence of int...

Academic global health programs are growing rapidly in scale and number. Students of many disciplines increasingly desire global health content in their curricula. Global health curricula often include field experiences that involve crossing international and socio-cultural borders. Although global health training experiences offer potential benefits to trainees and to sending institutions, the...

As public health departments around the country undergo accreditation using the Public Health Accreditation Board standards, the process provides a new opportunity to integrate ethics metrics into day-to-day public health practice. While the accreditation standards do not explicitly address ethics, ethical tools and considerations can enrich the accreditation process by helping health departmen...

Public health as an organized discipline began more than 100 years ago to improve the health, primarily, of populations rather than of individuals. Given its population-based focus, however, public health is forever facing dilemmas concerning the appropriate extent of its reach and when the work of public health professionals is infringing on individual liberties in ethically troublesome ways. ...

ISSUE ADDRESSED Most academic journals that publish studies involving human participants require evidence that the research has been approved by a human research ethics committee (HREC). Yet journals continue to receive submissions from authors who have failed to obtain such approval. In this paper, we provide an ethical justification of why journals should not, in general, publish articles des...