HILLSDALE, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Academy for Science and Freedom at Hillsdale College has released a statement entitled “Ethical Principles of Public Health.” The statement, coauthored by a ...

Medical ethics generally applies to individual interactions between physicians and patients. Conversely, public health ethics typically applies to interactions between an agency or institution and a ...

Credit: Getty Images The burden of public health interventions must not be substantially greater than the expected public health gains. Public health measures that curtail individual freedoms must be ...

Our nation is on the cusp of momentous changes to the laws, policies, and procedures that shape governmental and private institutional power to protect the public’s health. The 2024 election, the ...

One of the outcomes of the COVID-19 pandemic is the closer alignment between emergency management and the disease monitoring and prevention function of public health. Typically we dealt mainly with ...

The turbulence of the COVID-19 pandemic has led to a dangerous trend in US public health: the intentional creation of public health law vacuums. A public health law vacuum occurs where no governance ...

The American Data Privacy and Protection Act (ADPPA) is widely considered the best opportunity in a generation for comprehensive federal privacy legislation. The ...

In December, 2025, Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health announced that Mary T Bassett would be stepping down as Director of the François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health and Human Rights.