Dentistry, Oral Health & Humanitarian Health Ethics
Speaker
Lisa Schwartz, PhD is the Arnold L. Johnson Chair in Health Care Ethics, Full Professor in the department of Health Research Methods, Evidence & Impact at McMaster University and Associate Professor in Philosophy. She is the senior Primary Investigator on a program of research studies examining the ethical challenges faced by humanitarian healthcare providers called Humanitarian Health Ethics (hhe). Recent studies focus on Research Ethics during times of Ebola, and Palliative Care in complex humanitarian emergencies including with refugee communities. Dr Schwartz is a member of the Ethics Review Board of Médecins Sans Frontières since 2014 and leads a WHO Task Force on Good Participatory Practice in Emerging Pathogen Research.
Disclosure: Dr. Schwartz has no relevant financial relationships to disclose.
Course Description
Humanitarian Health Ethics (hhe) is an interdisciplinary program of research that, for the past 14 years, has encouraged reflection and empirical study of ethical challenges for humanitarian health practitioners and the organizations that engage them.
Educational Objectives
- Explore the ideas of ‘humanitarian + health + ethics’ through some of the themes uncovered by hhe’s empirical research
- Examine how humanitarian response may differ from global health
- Reflect on some guiding principles and concepts in humanitarian health ethics.
Contact
For information, please contact Penn Dental Medicine Continuing Dental Education at:
PDMContinuingEd@dental.upenn.edu