Working groups Academy of Ethics in Medicine (AEM)

The working group "Public Health Ethics" is composed of national and international experts and interested scholars. It was founded in 2021 with the aim of bringing a public health ethics perspective into discussions about the Covid-19 pandemic and contributing its findings to debates and political decision-making processes. The Covid-19 pandemic has shown the complex challenges that political decision-makers face in making ethically sensitive decisions about public health measures under time pressure and conditions of uncertainty. The working group is building on this and is expanding to any issues related to public health ethics. It aims to introduce the perspective of population-based health ethics as an important component, in addition to other professional assessments, in the academic, political and public discourse. Various activities are taking place for this purpose: Examination of the field of "public health ethics": which topics belong to it and to what extent can or should this field be distinguished from classical bioethics and medical ethics? What ethical considerations and methods are appropriate here? What educational goals should be pursued in public health ethics? What does a future look like in which public health ethics can be better used for advice in policy and practice? What competencies and resources are important here? Another goal is international networking in the field of public health ethics.

AEM-Activities

Angela Ballantyne, University of Otago

Nancy Berlinger, The Hastings Center

Nadja Binz, University of Tübingen

Alena Buyx, Munich Technical University

Ryoa Chung, University of Montreal

Maria Susana (Suzie) Ciruzzi ?

Angus Dawson, University of Sydney 

Sarah Diner, Bonn University

Lisa Eckenwiler, George Mason University

Hans Jörg Ehni, University of Tübingen

Magdalena Flatscher-Thöni, UMIT Tirol

Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra, The University of Edinburgh

Ute Haas, Deutscher Pflegerat

Solveig Hansen, University of Bremen

Christine Hauskeller, University of Exeter

Jan-Christoph Heilinger, LMU Munich oder RWTH Aachen?

Tereza Hendl, University of Augsburg

Samia Hurst, University of Geneva

Ilhan Ilkilic, University of Istanbul

Alex London Carnegie, Mellon University

Elm Maeckelberghe, University of Groningen

Eric Malmqvist, University of Gothenburg

Georg Marckmann, LMU Munich

Arnd T. May, Zentrum für Angewandte Ethik

Timonthy McCall, University of Bielefeld

Christian Munthe, University of Goethenburg

Saskia Nagel, RWTH Aachen University

Niels Nijsingh, LMU Munich

Orsolya Friedrich, LMU Munich

Robert Ranisch, University of Tübingen

Oliver Razum, University of Bielefeld

Annette Rid, NIH Clinical Center

Annette Riedel, Esslingen University

Benjamin Roth, Protestant Academy Loccum

Andrea Schiff, Catholic University of Applied Sciences NRW

Sebastian Schleidgen, FernUniversität in Hagen

Andrea Schmidt, University of Göttingen 

Peter Schröder-Bäck, HSPV NRW

Mark Schweda, University of Oldenburg

Quintus Sleumer, University of Augsburg

Jana Stecher, Heilbronn University of Applied Sciences

Jan Stratil, LMU Munich

Daniel Strech, Charité Berlin

Alison Thompson, University of Toronto

Cristian Timmermann, University of Augsburg

Myriam Ueberbach, University of Münster

Gabriele Vaitaityte

Sridhar Venkatapuram, King's College London

Maike Voss, Centre for Planetary Health Policy

Peter West-Oram, Brighton and Sussex Medical School

Verina Wild, University of Augsburg

Sabine Wöhlke, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences

Andreas Wolkenstein, LMU Munich

Solveig Hansen, Georg Marckmann, Jan-Christoph Heilinger, Verina Wild

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What is Public Health Ethics?