Welcome to the CoursePlus Web site for ETHICAL ISSUES IN PUBLIC HEALTH (306.655.01), a course offered by the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Lectures and small group discussions focus on ethical theory and current ethical issues in public health and health policy.

Upon successfully completing this course, students will be able to:

• Identify and define moral issues in the context of public health practice
• distinguish between a moral issue or argument and other types of issues or arguments
• articulate moral arguments for or against public health policies or practices

Mon Wed   10:30 AM to 11:50 AM

Jeff Kahn
E-mail: jkahn@jhsph.edu
 

graduate students

Grading Policy: Student evaluation is based primarily on class participation and a paper evaluating ethical issues in the student's area of public health specialization.

Grading Restrictions: Letter grade

Jeff Kahn
E-mail: jkhan@jhsph.edu