ASPHER Working Group on Ethics and Values in Public Health
ASPHER Working Group on Ethics and Values in Schools of Public Health, Public Health Policy and Practice

Mission: The Working Group is dedicated to issues related to ethics and values in Schools of Public Health to devise an ethical framework for public health teaching/practice and promote its adoption by ASPHER and members of ASPHER.

Chair: Ted Tulchinsky (Braun School of Public Health and Community Medicine, ASPHER EB)
Tel: +972 8 678 1099, mailto:tulchinskyted@hotmail.com and mailto:tedt@hadassah.org.il

co-Chair: Els Maeckelbergh (University of Groningen, EUPHA Section on Ethics in Public Health)
Tel: + 31 50 3637985, mailto:e.l.m.maeckelberghe@med.umcg.nl

Mambers of the Steering Committee:
Ted Tulchinsky] and Els Maeckelbergh (Chair/co-Chair), Robert Otok (ASPHER Secretariat)
Carmen Aceijas, United Kingdom (mailto:c.aceijas@uel.ac.uk)
Peter Schröder-Bäck, Netherlands (mailto:peter.schroder@inthealth.unimaas.nl)

Members:
Martine Bellanger (France), Jovanka Bislimovska (Macedonia), Göran Bondjers (Sweden), Franco Cavallo (Italy), Gena Grancharova (Bulgaria), Irena Gryga (Ukraine), Arnoldas Jurgutis (Lithuania), Ramune Kalediene (Lithuania), Maksut Kulzhanov (Kazakhstan), Jeff Levett (Greece), Frantisek Mateicka (Slovakia), Mona Moldovan (Romania), Brian Potter (United Kingdom), Oliver Razum (Germany), Louise Stjernberg (Sweden), Mirosław Wysocki (Poland)

Aims and Objectives:

At the meeting in Rennes, on May 28/29, The group acknowledged that the driving agenda (and specific activities) of the group will address ethical issues in public heath practice and the learning and teaching of ethics in PH training in Europe. A wider agenda shall be developed in future meetings. Members of the Steering Committee agreed to meet in Brussels in September/October to start defining such working agenda.

Proposed activities:
(progress to be evaluated at the meeting in Brussels in September/October):

1) To identify people interested in exploration of ethical issues in public health policy and practice
2) To identify people who teach ethics (at the member schools level)
3) To circulate a questionnaire aiming at setting up an inventory of existing courses
4) To launch the online platform/www for communication among members of the group
5) To work on curriculum model (2011: in depth analysis - publication)

Workshop at the upcoming European Public Health Conference in Amsterdam
Abstract
Date/time: 16:30 - 18:00, Friday 12 November, 2010

Special Issue of PHR Journal on Ethics and Public Health
Date of publication: end of 2011

References:

ASPHER's Values, Vision, Mission and Aims: A Working Paper
TH Tulchinsky, CA Birt, R Kalediene, A Meijer
Ethics and Public Health: Model Curriculum
Editors: B Jennings, J Kahn, A Maistroianni, LS Parker
Principles of the Ethical Practice of Public Health
Public Health Leadership Society

CDC and Public Health Ethics
Nuremberg code turns 60, M Thieren, A Mauron, Bulletin of the World Health Organization