Ethics Resources

 Discusses how ethical, professional and scientific behaviors help ensure scientific integrity and sustain effective relationships with stakeholders and the public.

 Explains how environmental laboratories have changed over the last 50 years and how they have stayed the same. Provides an overview of basic environmental lab ethics including violations, decision making, data integrity and other fundamental aspects.

A broad philosophical ethics training that can inform decision making in the laboratory and life. It starts out with a brief overview of ethics topics specific to environmental laboratories and then discusses the broader, philosophical aspects of ethics that can inform decision-making both inside and outside the laboratory.

Addresses the importance of maintaining ethical behavior on both an individual and organizational level. Discusses ethical challenges faced by laboratory personnel in maintaining public trust. Reviews a code-of-conduct example and the behaviors typical to ethical laboratory scientists. Covers ethical challenges faced by regulatory organizations, with an emphasis on regulatory laboratories.

A brief description of how CDC defines public health ethics, the agency's goals and structure and goals as they relate to ethics.

Outlines what ethics is in an environmental laboratory, defines good ethics practices and outlines ethics breaches and how laboratories can address them.

A brief description of how EPA define scientific integrity and how it helps the agency pursue its mission of protecting human health and the environment.

Ethics is the discipline of dealing with right versus wrong, moral duty, obligation and a guiding philosophy that creates a system of moral values and principles. It helps determine whether practices are acceptable and conform to professional standards of conduct. In short, ethics is a complex subject; the complexity lies in that, while some ethical practices may be unacceptable, all unethical practices are unacceptable.

Defines integrity and the importance of data integrity in environmental and public health laboratories. Outlines the necessary elements to ensure data integrity from the first sample collected to reporting results. Explains how to achieve and maintain data integrity.

Water, wastewater and public health laboratories produce data that directly impacts public health. It is important that this data be accurate, reliable and defensible. Laboratory Ethics programs provide guidance for decision making. Their focus on data integrity ensures that data accuracy, completeness and consistency are maintained over its entire life cycle. Ethics programs analysts determine if practices are acceptable and conform to professional standards. Email [email protected] for a discount code.

An introduction to public health ethics including core values, related obligations, guidance for ethical analysis and ethical action guidance for policy and practice.