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Please do circulate this invitation with colleagues, students and friends 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”
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To join the event as an attendee
1. Go to https://who-meeting.webex.
2. Click "Join Now".
Instructions for how to join the webinar are also available at http://www.who.int/ethics/
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-
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