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  • Covid heroes

    During New York City’s darkest days, some residents found purpose and meaning in helping their neighbors stay safe and even find a bit of joy. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/nyregion/new-york-pandemic-heroes.html?searchResultPosition=9      

  • What Covid has taught the world about ethics

    What Covid has taught the world about ethics. New England Journal of Medicine, Oct 22, 2022,Vol 387,No 17; DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp2210173.

  • Systemic moral courage

    As we spin in the Waring blender that is dismantling federal public health institutions, and as misinformation is promoted from the top, public health workers need to know when and how to exercise courage and resistance. You can find some … Read more

  • What COVID taught us

    The COVID pandemic was a stress test for public health ethics. Ethical Implications of COVID-19 Management: Evaluating the Aftershock (2022), from Ethics Press is an edited book of helpful insights.



What is Pandemic Ethics?

A pandemic is pervasive in scope and touches virtually every human-made system. In this guidance, we focus on ethics in a government’s or an employer’s actions in a pandemic.

Public health ethics addresses the relationship between those governing or administrating and the population or employees they serve. They are best summarized by the Public Health Code of Ethics of the American Public Health Association.

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