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Event Detail
Ethical Hazards in Pandemic Flu Planning and Response

May 11, 2006

Harvey Kayman, MD, MPH. University of South Carolina Center for Public Health Preparedness, and Public Health representative to the South Carolina Medical Association Ethics Committee.

Program Description:
An influenza pandemic will confront many people in our society, including health professionals, political leaders, and ordinary citizens, with terrible challenges that they are not accustomed to facing and will raise questions they are not used to addressing. Resources of all sorts may be in short supply. People may have to choose between caring for their usual responsibilities and taking care of themselves and their families. The right of non-interference by governmental officials may be suspended. How can we prepare for the moral choices we may have to make? Many, in positions of leadership, will need to prepare to deal with ethical issues in advance, while others will only begin to grapple with these dilemmas when a crisis is imminent. Dr Kayman will present the audience with some of these issues, and begin to address how we define an ethical framework for decision-making and raise questions about ethical principles we might apply, as we try to decide on a moral course of action.

Also see Dr. Kayman's previous broadcast:
Ethics in the Age of Bioterrorism (with special focus on Hurricane Katrina)

Continuing Education Units:
Nursing Contact Hours, CHES and CME credits are available upon completion of evaluation and post-test. More info about credits.

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Objectives:
At the conclusion of the presentation, the participants will be able to:

1. Review an ethical framework to help people address dilemmas raised by crises
2. Acknowledge the tension between unarticulated ethical constructs and assumed moral norms, that will be brought out by crises
3. Attend to action steps that may help prepare for and address the dilemmas and tensions

Who Should Attend:
Healthcare and public health personnel in any setting who are concerned with emergency preparedness and patient care in disasters, including clinicians, administrators, emergency planners, training coordinators, and federal, state, or local public health professionals. Community organizations, public administrators, ethicists, news media/journalists.
When:
May 11, 2006 10-11 AM ET Rebroadcast Time:
4-5 PM ET

These projects are supported under a cooperative agreement from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Grant number U90/CCU224249-02. The contents of this program do not necessarily represent the official views of the CDC.

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