ArticleGlobal epidemiology2023
Moral controversies and academic public health: Notes on navigating and surviving academic freedom challenges.
Article in Global epidemiology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
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Who cites it
4 citing papers in PubMed.
- Letter to editor regarding: "Moral controversies and academic public health: Notes on navigating and surviving academic freedom challenges" by professor VanderWeele.Global epidemiology · 2024Article
- Response to: Letter by Litwack and DeGruttola regarding "Moral controversies and academic public health: Notes on navigating and surviving academic freedom challenges".Global epidemiology · 2024Article
- Viewpoint diversity in public health.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- On the diversity of ideas in academic spaces.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
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Abstract
Schools of public health often serve both as public health advocacy organizations and as academic units within a university. These two roles, however, can sometimes come into conflict. I experienced this conflict directly at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health in holding and expressing unpopular minority viewpoints on certain moral controversies. In this essay I describe my experiences and their relation to questions of academic freedom, population health promotion, and efforts at working together across differing moral systems.
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