Spring 2027

Public Health Ethics

Public Health Ethics focuses on ethical issues in population-level disease prevention and health promotion, exploring theoretical approaches and tensions like coercive measures and intergenerational justice.

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2016: 3.28 GPA, 66.7% A/AB (n=18 letter grades); Spring 2019: 3.48 GPA, 85.7% A/AB (n=28 letter grades); Spring 2022: 3.65 GPA, 78.3% A/AB (n=23 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Understand the conversation about public health ethics as an enterprise incorporating moral philosophy, bioethics, and evidence-based social science.

  • Identify and clarify diverse moral norms and principles that underlie diverse convictions about public health ethics.

  • Subject these norms and principles to dispassionate critical reasoning aimed at evaluating the force of underlying reasons for and against them.

  • Write clear and concise essays subjecting issues of public health ethics to dispassionate ethical analysis.

  • Write a clear and concise 15-page essay arguing for a novel thesis concerning public health ethics.

Source: UW Guide 1 UW Guide 2

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2016: 3.28 GPA, 66.7% A/AB (n=18 letter grades); Spring 2019: 3.48 GPA, 85.7% A/AB (n=28 letter grades); Spring 2022: 3.65 GPA, 78.3% A/AB (n=23 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Coercive public health measures and paternalism
  • Individual responsibility for health conditions
  • Allocation of life-saving treatments and vaccinations
  • Climate change, intergenerational justice, and international pharmaceutical research

Skills

  • Dispassionate critical reasoning for evaluating moral norms and principles
  • Writing clear and concise analytical and argumentative essays on public health ethics

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