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Science 30 January 2004:
Vol. 303. no. 5658, pp. 631 - 632
DOI: 10.1126/science.1094038
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Policy Forum

PUBLIC HEALTH:
Ethics and the Conduct of Public Health Surveillance

Amy L. Fairchild* and Ronald Bayer

Efforts to distinguish between public health surveillance and epidemiological research are burdened by history. The authors of this Policy Forum say the moment is right to reframe the policy discussion and to recognize the imperative of ethical review of surveillance as well as research.

The authors are in the Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA.

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: alf4{at}columbia.edu

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