Collective Scientific Testimony and Trustworthy Public Health Agencies

verfasst von

George Kwasi Barimah

Abstract

How should we evaluate the trustworthiness of public health agencies (PHAs) such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drugs Administration (FDA)? This paper shall answer this question by arguing that PHAs testify as a collective and that conditions of trustworthiness must be evaluated at the collective level. The evaluative criteria consist of scientific competence, justified moral and political considerations and proper institutional design.

Organisationseinheit(en)

Centre for Ethics and Law in the Life Sciences

Typ

Artikel

Journal

Public health ethics

Band

18

ISSN

1754-9973

Publikationsdatum

11.2025

Publikationsstatus

Veröffentlicht

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Probleme, Ethik und rechtliche Aspekte, Health policy

Ziele für nachhaltige Entwicklung

SDG 3 – Gute Gesundheit und Wohlergehen

Elektronische Version(en)

https://doi.org/10.1093/phe/phaf011 (Zugang: Geschlossen)