OBJECTIVES:

1. Define “Global Health Ethics” and contrast it with other disciplines of ethics in healthcare and medicine.

2. Describe the key principles of medical ethics and explain why they are insufficient in scope for the discipline of global health.

3. Review the historical development of ethics, from bioethics to medical and global health ethics.

4. Discuss human rights as a core component of global health ethics

5. Apply global health ethics to important current issues including resource limitations, human research among vulnerable populations, and limited healthcare professional human resources

6. List important guiding documents on global health ethics that physicians caring for vulnerable populations must know including the Declaration of Helsinki.

INSTRUCTIONS:  

Please complete this module only if assigned or of special/elective interest. Global Health ethics is additionally addressed in the “Introduction to Global Health” and “Effective Short-Term Trips” modules. First, REVIEW the Global Health Ethics powerpoint. READ the selections from Skolnik’s chapter on Ethics and Human Rights, Pathologies of Power, AZT Trial/NEJM, and Declaration of Helsinki as guided throughout the PPT. Note taking is encouraged.  This module should take around 1 hour to complete.  

MODULE COMPONENTS

• PPT: Global Health Ethics (Note: This PPT is intended for interactive group presentation and is not fully formatted for individual review.)

• REFERENCE: Skolnik Chapter 4 (Ethics & Human Rights) (Selections) (Global Health 101)

• REFERENCE: Pathologies of Power (Selections) (Paul Farmer)

• REFERENCE: Short Course AZT Trial (1994) and NEJM Editorial (1997)

• REFERENCE: Declaration of Helsinki (2013)

• REFERENCE: WHO CIOMS International Ethical Guidelines for Health Related Research in Humans (2016)