Posted by: International Week | 03/26/2010

When Worlds Collide: Ethics and the Global Pandemic Response

Podcast available here.

Talk given Thursday, February 4, 2010 by Dr. Mark Joffe, Medical Director for the Infection Prevention and Control Program at the Royal Alexandria Hospital; Dr. Colin Soskolne, Professor of Epidemiology who established and directs the epidemiology program in the School of Public Health at the U of A; and Dr. James Talbot, Senior Provincial Medical Officer of Health for Alberta Health Services.

Nations worldwide are scrambling to develop battle plans to fight the H1N1 pandemic, but as immunization strategies and logistics are developed, are ethical issues being overlooked? Who gets access to vaccines? Who’s first in line? Can immunization be mandated? Should it be? What are the ethics of fighting a global pandemic? Join experts for a thought provoking session.

Podcast available here.

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