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

4. November 2024, 19.30 - 20.30 (CET)

Katarzyna Czabanowska, PhD, MA, Professor of Public Health Leadership and Workforce Development, Department of International Health, Care and Public Health Research Institute (CAPHRI), Maastricht 伟德国际_伟德国际1946$娱乐app游戏, The Netherlands
James C. Thomas, MPH, PhD, Emeritus Professor of Epidemiology, 伟德国际_伟德国际1946$娱乐app游戏 of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA

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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.

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Moderator: Dr. Peter Schr?der-B?ck, Professor of Ethics, Institute of History and Ethics, 伟德国际_伟德国际1946$娱乐app游戏 of Applied Sciences for Police and Public Administration North Rhine-Westphalia (HSPV NRW), Germany.

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Prof. Dr. Ansgar Gerhardus, Universit?t Bremen
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Das Bundesinstitut für Pr?vention und Aufkl?rung in der 伟德国际_伟德国际1946$娱乐app游戏izin (BIPAM) befindet sich derzeit in Gründung. Der Bundesgesundheitsminister erhofft sich dadurch eine St?rkung von Prim?rpr?vention und ?ffentlicher Gesundheit. Ein genauer Zuschnitt des neuen Bundesinstituts ist noch nicht bekannt, die Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufkl?rung und Teile des Robert-Koch-Instituts sollen jedoch in diesem Institut aufgehen. Damit werden Institutionen der ?ffentlichen Gesundheit in Deutschland neu geordnet. Kritik am geplanten BIPAM selbst kommt aus Institutionen, die von der Neuordnung direkt betroffen sind als auch von Wissenschaftlern, die einen nachhaltigen Public Health-Ansatz vermissen lassen.

In unserer Diskussionsrunde haben wir Statements zu den Pl?nen von zwei Referenten mit ausgewiesener Expertise geh?rt und public-health-ethische und gesundheitsphilosophische Implikationen er?rtert.

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In his talk Prof. Klaus H?ye gave insights into Danish Public Health Ethics before, during and possibly after the Covid-19 pandemic.

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The working group’s first meeting to discuss ideas of how to work together and what topics to look at. As this was in the midst of the Covid-19 Pandemic it started out as a working group concerning Public Health ethical issues concerning the Pandemic.