The COVID-19 pandemic has battered the entire world over the last two years, with no clear end yet in sight, though some populations and some locales have fared better than others. This public health disaster has thrown into stark focus many shortcomings in health care policy and delivery across the world, and has raised profound ethical concerns at international, national, state, community, and personal levels. Bioethics has been called to apply its conceptual approaches and deliberative tools to help shape policies and assist decisions with life-and-death consequences "in the time of covid".

Learning Objectives: 

1. Review basic foundations and theories of bioethics
2. Review applications of bioethics to epidemics and disasters
3. Assess events in the COVID-19 pandemic through the bioethics lens
4. Identify needed changes to better prepare for the "next pandemic"

Duration: Approx. 1 hr 30 min.

Continuing Education Information:  1.5 Credits for CHES

The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (Academy) and Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR) are not responsible for the provider’s interpretation of the Academy/CDR Code of Ethics for the Nutrition and Dietetics Profession or its enforcement as it relates to the scenarios and content presented in this activity.

CHES Provider number:  99036

Format:  Recorded Webinar

Created/Updated: Recorded 11/5/2021

Author: Linda Axtell-Thompson, DBE, MBA

Disclosures:  The planners, reviewers, and authors have no declared conflicts of interest