These are only some examples of the video lectures for the above course at the American University of Sovereign Nations (AUSN).
Enrolled students of AUSN gain credit hours through active live participation in classes. A list of required and elective courses for each degree program are provided in the degree program descriptions. In addition, they receive the AUSN Video lecture Archive Sheet to record which videos they have watched for additional knowledge. For countries that do not allow Youtube access (Channel: American University of Sovereign Nations), an original file can be shared with enrolled AUSN students. Anyone can request to try out a live AUSN class for free by writing to Dr. Darryl Macer, Provost, AUSN; Email: provost@ausovereignnations.org
AUSN as an intellectual forum for intercultural dialogue upholds the value of academic freedom for all professors and students, and the views expressed in the videos are not those of AUSN. The videos are a selection of the total video archive of AUSN that supplements the contact hours provided by in-person lectures, group skype sessions, and other supervised contact at AUSN.
The course description and expected competencies for this course are provided below. Some students use these videos to prepare for the course examinations, which in AUSN are open book/open Internet exams, where students need to prepare written answers (unless there is some condition that makes an oral exam the only possibility).
Links to example video lectures from the PHLE course
PHLE1, Prof. Marlon Lofredo, The court and the Setting of Public Policy in Bioethics in the Philippines
PHLE2, Prof. Sivanandam Panneerselvam, Cross-cultural bioethics: Western and Hindu philosophical traditions
PHLE3, Prof. Umar Angarra Jenie, Bioethics of pharmaceutical services in Indonesia
PHLE4, Prof. Shamima Lasker, Public responsibility in healthcare
PHLE6, Prof. Takao Takahashi, Triage and the medicine in disasters
PHLE8, Prof. Siti Nurani Nour, Incorporating higher learning skills into bioethics education of multicultural students of science in Malaysia
PHLE9, Prof. Amalia Muhaimin, Implementation and evaluation of a ‘seven-step method’ for ethical case discussion
PHLE11, Prof. Dena Hsin-Chen Hsin, Design of Bioethical cases spanning over general and professional education
PHLE12, Prof. Duujian Tsai, Pragmatic Challenges to Contemporary Visions of Professionalism in Taiwan and Western Countries-Proposing and Evaluating a Situational and Relational Learning Paradigm Based on Community Mental Health
PHLE21, Prof. Takao Takahashi, Disaster Ethics
PHLE22, Prof. Martha Marcela Alanis Rodriguez and Prof. Duujian Tsai, Bioethics education as a determinant of social cohesion in human disasters; Education in a hospice setting
PHLE23, Prof. Yati Soenarto, Cooperation in Research, Education and Services in South East Asia
PHLE24, Prof. Shamima Lasker, Disclosure of Conflict of Interest in Publication
PHLE25, Neaz2Dec2017, 2 Nov 2017, 0.7 hrs, Prof. Ahmad Neaz, Ethics and Values
PHLE26,Prof. Latifah Amin, Role of Religion in Bioethical Decision-Making
PHLE27, Prof. Darryl Macer, Bioethics and Global Public Health
PHLE28, Prof. Aruna Sivakami, Public and Private Health care
PHLE29, Prof. Ananya Tritipthumrongchok, The Power of Life: Ethics and the Seven Universal Truths
PHLE30, Prof. Atsushi Asai, Should we try to create a perfect healthy utopia? Discussion concerning ethical issues presented in the world of Project Itoh’s Harmony
PHLE31, Prof. Maria Keiko Yasuoka, Investigations of Experiences of Organ Donor and Recipients and their Families in Japan
PHLE32, Prof. Soraj Hongladarom, The Implications of the 2015 Thai Law on Surrogacy
Course details
Course Objectives:The objective of this course is to present to the student a general framework of public law, ethics and health policy analysis, and to understand the integration of both public health issues and the law into policy making.
Course Purpose: The purpose of this course is to present the student the essential principles of public health law, public health ethics, and health policy, and for the student to understand their critical nature and application in general public health.
Topics that are covered:
1. Introduction to Public Health Law, Ethics and Policy Analysis
2. Bioethics across Cultures and Religions
3. Health Care System
4. Pharmaceutical Ethics
5. Education of Bioethics and Public Health Law Ethics
6. Health Law and the Legal System
7. Patient Consent
8. Tropical Disease Burden and Community Engagement, e.g. Vector control
9. Infectious Disease and Professional Responsibility to Care; Employee Rights and Responsibilities
10. Organ Distribution
11. End of Life Care
12. Disaster medicine and ethics
13. Mental health ethics
14. Eugenics and Social Darwinism Abuses
15. Indigenous bioethics
16.Islamic bioethics
17.Conflict of Interest
18. Patient Abuses in Research and Patient Protection
19. Specialty Medical Ethics
20. Ethics and Public Health
21. Health Care Ethics Committee Dilemmas
Competencies:
(1) Describe the legal and ethical bases for public health and health services.
(2) Apply basic principles of ethical analysis to issues of public health practice and policy.
(3) Describe the roles of history, power, privilege and structural inequality in producing health disparities.
(4) Identify the ethical, social and legal issues implied by public health sciences.
(5) Distinguish between population and individual ethical considerations in relation to the benefits, costs, and burdens of public health programs.
(6) Comprehend basic ethical and legal principles pertaining to the collection, maintenance, use and dissemination of epidemiologic data.