“The Ethical Quagmire of Donation After Circulatory Death” Speaker Anji Wall, MD, PhD, FACS Associate Professor of Surgery University of Texas Health Sciences Center School of Medicine Chief of the Section of Surgical Development Baylor University Medical Center Department of General Surgery Vice Chair of Research Baylor Sammons Transplant Institute

​ If medical rationing becomes necessary, some older adults are prepared to step aside. But many have the opposite concern: that they will be arbitrarily sent to the rear of the line.

A new partnership between Vanderbilt Divinity School and Mental Health and Chaplaincy, a national program of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ Veterans Health Administration, will relaunch a doctor of ministry program at Vanderbilt. The program aims to equip chaplains with best practices for providing high-quality, evidence-based care for persons with diverse psychosocial–spiritual needs.

In 2015 APHA convened a task force charged with revising, expanding and updating the code of public health ethics that had been adopted and promulgated in 2002. This year the APHA approved a new “Public Health Code of Ethics,” and it was released at the association’s annual meeting held in Philadelphia in early November. Bruce Jennings was the co-chair of that task force and served as one of the principal drafters of the text of the new code.