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FYI -- Hillsdale College does not have a public health program and is not an accredited school of public health (SPH). Their document on "Ethical Principles of Public Health" feels more political than oriented around public health. There are people at actual SPHs that work on public health ethics, it might be worth focusing on those instead of amplifying whatever this is.

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This is a declaration of principles, not an appeal to credentialism.

It just seems worthwhile to note that this isn't coming from an organization with any history of working or studying or caring about public health. The public is free to advocate or believe in these principles, just know where they're coming from. It's kind of like how many engineers get upset when non-technical PMs dictate how they should think about or build systems.

Which ones do you object to? What would you prefer?

I prefer the ones outlined by my professional organization, The American Public Health Association: https://www.apha.org/-/media/files/pdf/membergroups/ethics/c...

I don’t think letting a small group of insiders define their own ethics is a good idea.

This college is in my state - it's a rightwing political think tank masquerading as a university.

Well let's see which health experts signed it...

Roger Severino, vice president of the Heritage Foundation.

He's a lawyer with no medical training. I guess his credentials for health is Trump appointed him as an HHS lawyer to undo what Severino called the "radical gender ideology" of Obama.

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