BACKGROUND A world divided by health inequalities poses ethical challenges for global health. International and national responses to health disparities must be rooted in ethical values about health and its distribution; this is because ethical claims have the power to motivate, delineate principles, duties and responsibilities, and hold global and national actors morally responsible for achiev...

Advancing the opinion that global mental health supersedes public and international levels and deals with an integrative approach, this paper elaborates some of the implications of a differential ethics theory as outlined by H.M. Sass. Rejecting the extremes of moralizing generalizations and narrow scientific stances, it considers the need for cultural competence and praxis-relevant thinking in...

C linical research by academic institutions and pharmaceutical companies has followed the general trend of globalization and has moved inexorably towards lowand middle-income countries (LMIC). This trend has raised various concerns, including whether the research being conducted is of value to public health in these countries or whether economically disadvantaged populations are being exploited...

E-post: [email protected] Ingrid Miljeteig (born 1975), MD, associate professor of medical ethics, Global Health Priorities research group University of Bergen, special advisor in R&D Bergen Hospital Trust (Helse Bergen). She leads the collaboration in ethics education between the University of Bergen, Bergen Hospital Trust and Addis Ababa University. The author has completed the ICMJE fo...