An Ethical Framework for Smart Sanitation Technology as a Public Health Tool
An Ethical Framework for Smart Sanitation Technology as a Public Health Tool
European Teleclass
Date: November 7, 2024
Faculty: Prof. Maria Carnovale, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies
Live broadcast time:
… 1:30pm-2:30pm in New York / Toronto
… 7:30pm in Geneva
… 5:30am (November 8) in Sydney
… 3:30pm in Buenos Aires
… 9:30pm in Riyadh
Objectives
- Understand how smart sanitation technology, or SST, applies digital technologies to the sanitation industry.
- Learn how SST can support epidemiological analysis and contribute to the vision of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
- Identify the risks of SST, such as continuous health surveillance, privacy, and generating stigma from data inference.
- Explore how a policy framework based on basic and uncontroversial ethical principles can ease the use of SST for public health purposes and mitigate the risks it poses.