What are the Obligations of the State during a Pandemic?

Sharing Insights about Ethics and COVID Across States

Session One in a Series Presented by the Empire State Bioethics Consortium

What are the obligations of the state during a pandemic?

The ongoing COVID-19 crisis illuminates the urgent need for municipal, state, and/or federal crisis standards of care. This interactive webinar will explore how these standards should optimize the allocation of scarce medical resources in order to maximize just and fair access to care for all patients.

Questions

For questions about this event, please contact Bob Klitzman, rlk2 [[at]] cumc [[dot]] columbia [[dot]] edu, or Amy Scharf, amyescharf [[at]] gmail [[dot]] com.

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Additional Speakers

Faculty Placeholder

Nancy Neveloff Dubler, LL.B

NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Joseph J. Fins, MD

Chief, Division of Medical Ethics Weill Cornell Medical College

A headshot of Kenneth W. Goodman, Director, Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy; Co-Director, UM Ethics Programs.

Ken Goodman, PhD

Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami

A headshot of the Dr. Shoshanah Trachtenberg Frackman Chair in Bioethics.

Tia Powell, MD

Director, Montefiore Einstein Center for Bioethics

A headshot of Rabbi Claudio J. Kogan, Physician, Rabbi, and Ethicist.

Rabbi Claudio J. Kogan

Physician, Rabbi, Ethicist; Texas

Dr. Robert Klitzman

Robert Klitzman, MD

Moderator | Director, Online and In-person Masters of Bioethics Programs, Columbia University