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Words matter. Even more in public health policies

Thursday, January 25, 2018 - 16:25

Policy facts

The editorial entitled Dangerous words published on The Lancet starts stating that “Medicine is underpinned by both art and science. Art that relies upon strong therapeutic relationships with patients and populations. And science that brings statistical rigour to clinical and public health practice”. This statement introduces the decision of Trump administration to ban words like health equity, vulnerable, entitlement, diversity, transgender, fetus, evidence-based, and science-based from government documents for the US$7 billion budget discussions about the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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Target: 
Decision Makers, Government and Public Health
Topic: 
Policy
Tags: 
ethics, communication, science-in-society

Ethics in innovation: the role of big data

October 11, 2017

The growing role of Big Data in medicine raises an ethical issue for Responsible Research and Innovation: what about privacy and a possible misuse of such information? During “Shaping the Future of Pediatrics” congress in Rome, ASSET met Alberto Tozzi, Research area coordinator and Head of Digital Medicine and Telemedicine Unit at Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù, Rome. He suggests that technical solutions can help, but they are not enough, without a cooperation among all the actors (patients, family, hospital, authorities, and so on).

Target: 
Decision Makers, Government and Public Health, Industry & Commerce
Topic: 
Stakeholders
Tags: 
Video, ethics, research, innovation, big data
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Ethical Issues in public health surveillance

Tuesday, October 3, 2017 - 20:02

“Public health surveillance is the bedrock of outbreak and epidemic response”. With these words, Marie-Paule Kieny – WHO Assistant Director-General for Health Systems and Innovation – introduces the WHO guidelines on ethical issues in public health surveillance, a document targeted to a wide range of stakeholders involved in the constant monitoring of health threats.

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Target: 
Decision Makers, Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Human Rights, Policy, Prevention, Stakeholders
Tags: 
ethical issues, ethics, policy

Paper series 2 - Democracy and human rights under Public Health Emergency (PHE) threat

Saturday, November 19, 2016 - 10:06

Solveig Wallyn, Eva Benelli, Alessandra Craus, Alberto d'Onofrio, Mitra Saadatian-Elahi

Topic: 
Human Rights
Tags: 
public health, ethics, Preparedness, influenza, flu, science-in-society
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Ethical issues in national pandemic influenza plans

Thursday, September 29, 2016 - 09:38
Ethic dataviz

Influenza pandemics are unpredictable but recurring events that can have severe consequences on human health and socio-economic life to global level. For this reason, the World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended all countries to prepare a pandemic influenza plan following its own guidelines.

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Target: 
Decision Makers, Government and Public Health
Topic: 
Human Rights, Policy, Prevention
Tags: 
Dataviz, ethics, Preparedness

MycoSynVac: synthetic biology, paying attention to ethical issues

Thursday, September 22, 2016 - 09:11

Vaccines have had broad medical impact, but existing vaccine technologies and production methods are limited in their ability to respond to certain pathogens. Other hurdles are due to difficulties in large scale production. MycoSynVac project proposes a new way for developing vaccines, by using of cutting-edge synthetic biology methodologies to engineer Mycoplasma pneumoniae as a universal chassis for vaccination.

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Target: 
Industry & Commerce
Topic: 
Microbiology, Stakeholders, Vaccination
Tags: 
Vaccine, ethics, synthetic biology

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