PUBHLT 0500 - ETHICAL ISSUES IN PUBLIC AND COMMUNITY HEALTH

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This 3-credit course addresses a broad range of historical and contemporary issues in public and community health ethics. This course will begin with an exploration of normative frameworks utilized by ethicists, health professionals, and policy-makers for analyzing and addressing ethical and social challenges in public and community health. These frameworks will be utilized in the course to assess and critically examine a number of general and specific public and community health issues, including (a) conceptual foundations of health promotion and disease prevention at the population level; (b) justification for public/community health policies that may conflict with or intrude upon individual autonomy and interests; (c) justice and the fair allocation of health resources within communities, particularly in disaster and pandemic scenarios; (d) trade-offs between aggregate health benefit promotion and negative impacts on subpopulations; (e) social and environmental determinants of health and remediation policies; (f) vulnerable populations and health disparities; (g) public health harm reduction strategies, particularly for curbing the opioid epidemic; and (h) pediatric health initiatives, including immunization programs, newborn screening, and anti-smoking/vaping campaigns. Finally, the course will provide an overview of research ethics in health contexts, with particular attention to community-based research through student completion of and certification through Pitt's Community Partner Research Ethics Training (CPRET).
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade

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