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Ruger Selected to Serve on CDC’s Ethics Subcommittee
The U.S. federal agency charged with maintaining public health on a national level has invited a School of Public Health faculty member to serve on a subcommittee that provides counsel on public health ethics issues. Jennifer Prah Ruger, an associate professor in the division of Health Policy and Administration, will join the Ethics Subcommittee of the Advisory Committee to the Director at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), effective July 1. During her four–year term, Ruger will help advise the CDC on a broad range of public health ethics questions and issues arising from programs, scientists and practitioners. Her fellow subcommittee members, characterized by the CDC as “academic and professional ethicists,” have expertise in ethical theory, public health ethics, research ethics, bioethics or related fields. Ruger was invited to join the Ethics Subcommittee because of her research into the ethics and economics of health disparities, and her interest in equity of access to healthcare systems—both important facets of public health ethics. “I look forward to advising the CDC Director on the ethical and economic implications of public health,” said Ruger, noting that this year the committee aims to address the ethics of health reform. Ruger is scheduled to attend the first subcommittee meeting in Atlanta this September. Ruger serves as the co–director of the Yale/World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Health Promotion, Policy and Research and an Interdisciplinary Research Methods Core Investigator for the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS. ~ Story by Melissa Pheterson |
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