@article{781923eadcea44eda6b69e6a3662c55a,
title = "A journey in public health ethics",
abstract = "While medical ethics has a long history, and research ethics guidance emerged more formally in the 1960s and 1970s, frameworks for public health ethics began to appear in the 1990s. The author{\textquoteright}s thinking about public health ethics evolved from consideration of some of the ethics and policy questions surfacing regularly in the HIV/AIDS epidemic. This essay discusses some of the shared commitments of public health and ethics, as well as how one might apply an ethics lens to public health programs, both generally and in the contexts of public health preparedness and obesity prevention.",
author = "Kass, {Nancy E.}",
note = "Funding Information: By the time I finished my doctorate, my interests in ethics were only growing, and I knew I needed more training. I wrote an individual NRSA (National Research Service Award) federal grant proposal, which ultimately gave me funding to do a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, with LeRoy Walters as my mentor. I took philosophy and bioethics classes while also designing and conducting another empirical research study on HIV discrimination in health care, with Ruth as my primary research mentor. This project involved sending a mailed survey to 10,000 physicians across the United States. The survey included two short cases, one about a patient with chest pain, the Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2017 by Johns Hopkins University Press.",
year = "2017",
month = dec,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1353/pbm.2017.0022",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "60",
pages = "103--116",
journal = "Perspectives in biology and medicine",
issn = "0031-5982",
publisher = "Johns Hopkins University Press",
number = "1",
}