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who may be interested in the seminar.



The Global Health Ethics Unit at the World Health Organization in
collaboration with the University of York and the Wellcome Trust is pleased
to invite you to attend a panel discussion that will be webcast live as
part of the Global Health Ethics Seminar Series. The title of this session
is “*Disease Surveillance for the SDGs – Balancing privacy with the need to
know*”



Date:                                Monday, 3 October 2016

Time:                                13:00 -14:30 hours, Europe Summer Time

To join the event as an attendee

1. Go to https://who-meeting.webex.com/who-meeting/onstage/g.php?MTID=
e24d56966f810744a299a877dbf927048

2. Click "Join Now".



Instructions for how to join the webinar are also available at
http://www.who.int/ethics/partnerships/seminars/en/. Further event
information is available via https://www.york.ac.uk/history/global-health-
histories/events/global-health-ethics-surveillance/

Speakers: Dr Daniel Hogan (WHO), Professor Amy Fairchild (Columbia
University, USA) and Professor Ali Haghdoost (Kerman University, Iran).

Surveillance is one of the most fundamental activities of public health,
involving diverse practices in areas such as non-communicable disease
registers, outbreak investigations, infectious disease, health systems
research, and digital surveillance. Public health surveillance (PHS) raises
multiple ethical issues, and WHO is currently finalizing ethics guidelines
for PHS. This webinar will highlight the lack of surveillance in many
situations, discuss the upcoming guidance document and the ethical issues
that could arise, and explore how to ethically balance the objective of
data collection to serve public health goals with the obligation to protect
the privacy of citizens. Join the webinar to hear our expert panel consider
these issues through a case study approach, and take part in the discussion.



The Global Health Ethics Seminars (GHES) provides a forum for leading
ethicists, health care workers, policy makers and patients from across the
world to come together and provide practical answers to the major moral and
ethical questions that arise in public health (http://www.york.ac.uk/news-
and-events/news/2015/events/global-health-ethics-events/).  The webinar
will provide opportunities to participants and viewers to interact with the
speakers and ask questions or provide comments.



Best wishes

Centre for Global Health Histories
www.york.ac.uk/history/global-health-histories/