We're looking forward to the upcoming session of our international "Public health ethics working group" (AEM/DGPH):

The Role of Codes of Ethics in the Professionalization of the Public Health Workforce

Seminar of the Network “Public Health Ethics” and the Working Group “Public Health Ethics” of the German Academy of Ethics in Medicine (AEM) and The German Society for Public Health (DGPH) in collaboration with the Institute of History and Ethics (HSPV NRW)

Time: Monday, Nov 4th, 2024, 7:30pm - ca. 8:30 pm (CET/German time zone)
Venue: Online

The professionalization of its workforce has been a key topic to the field of public health for the last years, not only since the Covid-19-pandemic.

Bachelor and Master programmes in public health have been developed and taught in the last decades and public health institutions have been opened for graduates from this field. The public health community is discussing competences for learning in the field ever since. Ethics belongs to the concept of an academically educated “profession” and thus “professionalization” deals with the question how to implement an ethos, morals or ethics in the education and practice of the public health workforce.

One approach to integrate a moral point of view here is to develop and implement so called “Codes of Ethics” or “Codes of Conducts” and to learn how to apply them in practice, including solving conflicts among the norms presented in such a code. Are codes meaningful tools for this context? What norms, values and virtues should they entail? Would every local public health community develop its own “code”? These and other questions are pertinent to the international agenda of professionalization of the public health workforce – and will be raised during this academic online seminar.

We will hear two presentations: Professor Czabanowska will talk, first, about the role of professionalization in the (European) Public Health workforce and the role WHO.Europe sees for “Codes of Ethics”. Next, Professor Thomas will present his experience with developing Codes of Ethics for public health for almost 25 years. He will furthermore report about his current project of developing a global Code of Ethics.

The seminar will be held in English.

Speakers

Katarzyna Czabanowska, PhD, MA, Professor of Public Health Leadership and Workforce Development, Department of International Health, Care and Public Health Research Institute (CAPHRI), Maastricht University, The Netherlands
James C. Thomas, MPH, PhD, Emeritus Professor of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA

Moderator: Dr. Peter Schröder-Bäck, Professor of Ethics, Institute of History and Ethics, University of Applied Sciences for Police and Public Administration North Rhine-Westphalia (HSPV NRW), Germany

Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/6402430835?pwd=NG5YOGxubmZiekhJeW9RcVBvcmY1dz09

Meeting-ID: 640 243 0835; Access code: DK2bi4

No prior registration necessary.

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