Public Health Ethics

The Center for Bioethics advances public health practice and policy that promotes population health while being socially responsible and worthy of trust. We foster this aspect of our mission through academic scholarship, educational opportunities, and statewide collaboration to create ethical guidelines and policies.

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MN COVID Ethics Collaborative Guidance:

MCEC has created a number of Minnesota statewide guidances that have been adopted and disseminated by the Minnesota Department of Health.

History of Collaboration

Prior to COVID-19, the Center collaborated to produce previous guidance for the State of Minnesota on pandemic ethics and crisis standards of care, including:
Public Health Ethics Recordings
  • Mary J. Owen, MD, University of Minnesota Medical School
  • Anne Sosin, MPH, Dartmouth College
  • Elizabeth Carpenter-Song, PhD, Dartmouth College
  • Georges C. Benjamin, MD, MACP, FACEP (E), FNAPA, American Public Health Association
  • Monica E. Peek, MD, MPH, MS, FACP, University of Chicago, The Pritzker School of Medicine
  • A. Kade Goepferd, MD, Children's Minnesota
  • Ian Wolfe, PhD, MA, RN, HEC-C, Children's Minnesota
  • Julian Sheather, PhD, Consultant, World Health Organization
  • Jennifer Needle, MD, MPH, HEC-C, University of Minnesota
  • Shannon Pergament, MPH, MSW, Community-University Health Care Center
  • Sey Lee, BS, Community-University Health Care Center
  • Mark G. Kuczewski, PhD, HEC-C, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine
  • Aasim I. Padela, MD, MSc, FACEP, Medical College of Wisconsin
  • Willyanne DeCormier Plosky, DrPH, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard University
  • Lawrence Gostin, JD, LL.D (Hon.), Georgetown Law
  • Rachel R. Hardeman, PhD, MPH, University of Minnesota School of Public Health
  • Lisa I. Iezzoni, MD, MSc, Harvard Medical School
  • Lisa Eckenwiler, PhD, George Mason University
  • Mary Faith Marshall, PhD, FCCM, HEC-C, University of Virginia
  • Lynn Paltrow, JD, Pregnancy Justice
  • Camisha Russell, PhD, University of Oregon
  • Brendan Saloner, PhD, Johns Hopkins University
  • Jennifer Prah, PhD, MSc, MA, MSL, University of Pennsylvania
  • Daniel Sulmasy, MD, PhD, Georgetown University
  • T. Brian Callister, MD, FACP, SFHM, University of Nevada
  • John B. Kelly, MA, Second Thoughts Massachusetts
  • Anita Cameron, Not Dead Yet
  • Senator John A. Hoffman (36, DFL)
  • Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD, HEC-C, Mitchell Hamline School of Law
  • Danna Nelson, Compassion and Choices
  • David R Grube, MD, Compassion and Choices 
  • Representative Mike Freiberg (DFL) District: 45B
  • Kellan Baker, PhD, MPH, MA, Whitman-Walker Institute
  • Katharine Dalke, MD MBE, Penn State University
  • Susan O'Conner-Von, PhD, RN, University of Minnesota
  • Patricia Berry PhD, CNP, GNP-BC, ACHPN, FPCN, FAAN, University of Utah
  • Zackary Berger, MD, PhD, Johns Hopkins University
  • Laura Palombi, PharmD, MPH, MAT, University of Minnesota
  • Katharine Dooley, MPH Candidate, University of MInnesota
  • JP Leider, PhD, University of Minnesota
  • Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, PhD, University of Minnesota
  • Abbey Staugaitis, RN, MSN, CCRC, University of Minnesota
  • Harvey M. Arbit, PharmD, MBA, Arbit Consulting
  • Wrenda M. Teeple, PharmD, Regions Hospital
  • Idolly F. Oliva, MBA, M Health Fairview
  • Annie Lyerly, MD, MA, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
  • Jerome Singh, BA, LLB, LLM, MHSc, PhD, University of Toronto
  • Jill Cordes, M Health Fairview
  • Debra DeBruin, PhD, University of Minnesota
  • Elizabeth Duffy, MPH, CCRC, Gillette Children’s
  • Amanda Galster, MPH, University of Minnesota
  • Megan Hoffman, MA, University of Minnesota
  • Courtney Jarboe, MS MA CIP, University of Minnesota
  • Susanna Kennedy, University of Minnesota
  • Abbey Staugaitis, RN, MSN, University of Minnesota
  • Thaddeus Pope, JD, PhD, Mitchell-Hamline School of Law
  • Amos Laar, MA, University of Ghana
  • Jennifer Needle, MD, MPH, University of Minnesota
  • Frazier Benya, MA, PhD, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
  • Bryan A. Sisk, MD, MSCI, Washington University in St. Louis
  • Andrew Jameton, PhD, University of Minnesota
  • Nneka Sederstrom, PhD, MPH, MA, FCCP, FCCM, University of MInnesota
  •  Jerome Singh, BA, LLB, LLM, PhD, MHSc, University of Toronto
  • Jochen Vollmann, MD, PhD, Ruhr University Bochum
  • Jon Merz, MBA, JD, PhD, University of Pennsylvania
  • Emma Bedor Hiland, PhD Candidate, University of Minnesota
  • Deborah Day Laxson, Author
  • Steven Miles, MD, University of Minnesota
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