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How to Stay Healthy and Safe While Voting in 2020
Voting is a vital component of our democracy. By following these simple steps, you’ll ensure a safe experience at the polls during the 2020 election.
How Should Journalists Report a Scientific Study?
A three-step process and a framework of questions to make ethical reporting decisions, with recent convalescent plasma reporting as an example.
End-of-Life Care with Alzheimer’s Disease
End-of-Life Planning with Alzheimer's Disease
The Moral Question of School Reopening: Benefit, Burden and Cura Personalis
The question of re-opening schools should be based on moral and ethical consideration.
Pandemic 101
As Covid-19 continues to spread across our country, it’s time to re-adjust our response and follow the most simple of guidelines.
Medicine Must Prove that Black Lives Matter
The simultaneous COVID-19 pandemic and Black Lives Matter movement highlighted the need to address systemic racism in the practice and delivery of health care.
The Other Pandemic: Covid-19 is a Mental Health Emergency
While the affect on the health of people around the world has been well-reported, Covid-19’s impact on our mental health has been less well reported, but potentially just as dangerous.
Translating Epidemiology to Just Workplace Return Policies
Epidemiology as part of thinking through the ethics of returning to work, school, and open economies.
Coronavirus: Lessons from Italy
With the United States just a short number of days behind Italy in the coronavirus pandemic, we need to do everything we can to limit the spread of the virus.
Public Health Justice in Pandemic Times
An ethical response to a pandemic like COVID-19 requires solutions that care for all of our community, including its most vulnerable.