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Expert strategies for ethical, impactful digital contact tracing during pandemics.

Digital Contact Tracing for Pandemic Response

Ethics and Governance Guidance

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    160 pages

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    28 May 2020

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Summary

As nations race to hone contact-tracing efforts, the world’s experts consider strategies for maximum transparency and impact.

As public health professionals around the world work tirelessly to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, it is clear that traditional methods of contact tracing need to be augmented in order to help address a public health crisis of unprecedented scope. Innovators worldwide are racing to develop and implement novel public-facing technology solution…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781421440613
ISBN-10:142144061X
Author:Jeffrey P. Kahn, Johns Hopkins Project on Ethics and Governance of Digital Contact Tracing Technologies
Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press
Imprint:Johns Hopkins University Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:160
Release Date:28 May 2020
Weight:272g
Dimensions:10mm x 152mm x 229mm
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About The Author

Jeffrey P. Kahn

Johns Hopkins Project on Ethics and Governance of Digital Contact Tracing Technologies is a rapid research and expert consensus group effort led by the Berman Institute of Bioethics in collaboration with the Center for Health Security at Johns Hopkins University. It draws on experts from both inside and outside Johns Hopkins in bioethics, health security, public health, technology development, engineering, public policy, and law.

Jeffrey P. Kahn, PhD, MPH, is the Andreas C. Dracopoulos Director of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics. He is also the Levi Professor of Bioethics and Public Policy there, as well as a professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. His research interests include the ethics of research, ethics and public health, and ethics and emerging biomedical technologies. He speaks widely both in the United States and abroad, and has published four books and over 125 articles in the academic literature. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and a fellow of the Hastings Center, and he has chaired or served on committees and panels for the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), where he is currently the chair of the Board on Health Sciences Policy and a member of the NAM Council. His education includes a BA in microbiology (University of California–Los Angeles, 1983), an MPH (Johns Hopkins University, 1988), and a PhD in philosophy (Georgetown University, 1989).

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