Public health - ethical issues

In September 2006 the Academy responded to a consultation issued by a working party of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics on the ethical issues raised by public health interventions.

The response was prepared following a half-day meeting of an Academy working group and focuses on the contribution medical science can make to the debate.

Job titles and affiliations were correct at the time of publication (September 2006)

Sir Michael Rutter CBE FRS FBA FMedSci Professor of Developmental Psychopathology, King's College London (Chair)

Professor Stephen Bloom FMedSci Head of Division, Investigative Science Department of Metabolic Medicine, Imperial College London

Professor Carol Dezateux FMedSci Head of Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Institute of Child Health, University College London

Professor Griffith Edwards CBE FMedSci Commissioning Editor, "Addiction", National Addiction Centre, Institute of Psychiatry

Professor Paul Elliott FMedSci Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College

Sir Andrew Haines KBE FMedSci Director, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Professor Kay Tee Khaw CBE FMedSci Professor of Clinical Gerontology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge