Virtual-Penn Bioethics Seminar Series (PBS): Public Health Ethics - Maxwell J. Smith, PhD

12:00pm - 1:00pm • Virtual, via Zoom

2025-11-25 12:00:00 2025-11-25 13:00:00 America/New_York Virtual-Penn Bioethics Seminar Series (PBS): Public Health Ethics - Maxwell J. Smith, PhD Maxwell J. Smith, PhD Associate Professor CIHR Applied Public Health Chair in Ethics and Health Emergencies Western University - Canada Professor Smith’s programme of research is in the area of public health ethics—a sub-field of bioethics—which seeks to examine the ethical dimensions of public health policy and practice. His research in this domain involves the critical investigation of how ethical considerations, ethical issues, and ethical reasoning are, and ought to be, approached and addressed in public health policy, practice, and research. Within this programme, professor Smith’s research falls into the following areas: Infectious disease ethics, namely, how to think about and integrate ethics into public health emergency preparedness and response Health equity and social justice, namely, investigating the ethical dimensions of these ‘core values’ and how they ought to be operationalized in public health, health care, and health policy In addition to these two areas that capture the principal foci of professor Smith’s programme of research, his research regularly investigates a number of other emerging issues in public health ethics and bioethics, including in the areas of organ donation, termination of pregnancy, health care decision-making, and artificial intelligence. More detail to follow. Virtual, via Zoom Penn Medical Ethics

Professor Smith’s programme of research is in the area of public health ethics—a sub-field of bioethics—which seeks to examine the ethical dimensions of public health policy and practice. His research in this domain involves the critical investigation of how ethical considerations, ethical issues, and ethical reasoning are, and ought to be, approached and addressed in public health policy, practice, and research. Within this programme, professor Smith’s research falls into the following areas:

Infectious disease ethics, namely, how to think about and integrate ethics into public health emergency preparedness and response
Health equity and social justice, namely, investigating the ethical dimensions of these ‘core values’ and how they ought to be operationalized in public health, health care, and health policy

In addition to these two areas that capture the principal foci of professor Smith’s programme of research, his research regularly investigates a number of other emerging issues in public health ethics and bioethics, including in the areas of organ donation, termination of pregnancy, health care decision-making, and artificial intelligence.