Positive Public Health Ethics: Toward Flourishing and Resilient Communities and Individuals

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Table 1. Membership of the Ethics Subcommittee of the Advisory Committee to the Director, US CDC (2006–2012).

2006	John Arras, Georges Benjamin, Vanessa Northington Gamble, Thomas Hooyman, Bruce Jennings, Mary desVignes-Kendrick, Barbara Koenig, Kathy Kinlaw, Robert Levine, Ruth Macklin, James Thomas (Kinlaw and Levine 2007, 1)
2007	John Arras, Georges Benjamin, Vanessa Northington Gamble, Thomas Hooyman, Bruce Jennings, Mary desVignes-Kendrick, Barbara Koenig, Kathy Kinlaw, Robert Levine, Ruth Macklin, James Thomas (Ethics Subcommittee of the Advisory Committee to the Director 2007, 1)
2008	John Arras, Ronald Bayer, Vivian Berryhill, Vanessa Northington Gamble, Robert Hood, Thomas Hooyman, Bruce Jennings, Nancy Kass, Kathy Kinlaw, Bernard Lo, Leslie Wolf (Jennings and Arras 2008, 1)
2009	Ruth Gaare Bernheim, Ronald Bayer, Vivian Berryhill, Robert Hood, Pamela Sankar, Leslie Wolf (Department of Health and Human Services 2009, 3)
2010	Ronald Bayer, Ruth Gaare Bernheim, Vivian Berryhill, LaVera Marguerite Crawley, Norman Daniels, Robert Hood, Bernard Lo, Jennifer Prah Ruger, Pamela Sankar, Leslie E. Wolf (Department of Health and Human Services 2010, 18)
2011	Ronald Bayer, Ruth Gaare Bernheim, Norman Daniels, Nancy Kass, Sara Rosenbaum, Jennifer Prah Ruger, Pamela Sankar, Marion C. Wheeler, Leslie E. Wolf (Department of Health and Human Services 2011, 14)
2012	Ruth Gaare Bernheim, Janice Chilton, LaVera Marguerite Crawley, Kenneth Goodman, George Isham, Jeff Kahn, Alan Melnick, Sara Rosenbaum, Jennifer Prah Ruger, Ani Satz, Matthew Stefanak (Department of Health and Human Services 2012, 19)

Table 2. American Public Health Association (APHA) Ethics Section, formerly Special Interest Group (SPIG) (American Public Health Association 2020).

Policy Committee

Chair: Ann Mongoven

The policy committee works to develop Ethics Section APHA policy proposals. We also collaborate with other APHA components to comment on and support their policy work.

Public Health Code of Ethics Task Force

The public health Code of Ethics was first developed in 2002. After working with the original authors and APHA leadership, a new Public Health Code of Ethics was written and approved by APHA in 2020.

Membership Committee

Chair: Patrick Masseo

The membership committee works to sustain current membership and welcome new members.

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