The Ethics Committee provides a focus for ethical analysis, consideration and response to public health challenges and issues, and advises and supports the Faculty in further embedding ethical principles and understanding into its activities, policies, practice and governance. You can read the Ethics Committee's terms of reference here.
Chair: Steven Bow
Vice Chair: Sridhar Venkatapuram
Contact: carolinewren@fph.org.uk
Work plan for 2025
The Ethics Committee's workstreams for 2025 are:
- Ethical guidance to FPH Board - to provide a forum of relevant experts and stakeholders to advise the Board and partners on ethical dimensions, considerations and response to public health challenges and issues, with a view to supporting robust decision making and the work of the Faculty, in order to deliver FPH’s charitable objects and strategy across the UK. Focus topics include:
• Artificial intelligence in public health (joint project with AI & Digital Public Health Special Interest Group)
• Moral distress and injury in the public health workforce
• Honesty in public health communication - UK and international partnerships and collaboration - to act as an expert source of knowledge and advice on public health ethics to the FPH, its various committees and its UK and international partners. and raising awareness and debate on public health ethical issues.
- Education and workforce development - to promote public health ethics education and development opportunities for the current and future workforce and provide guidance on the ethical knowledge and skills to support public health practice.
- Guidelines, comms and publications - to provide and disseminate strategic guidance and oversight in the field of public health ethics to the FPH, its various committees and its partners.
Special Interest Groups
The following special interest group reports to the Ethics Committee:
