Baruch College and the Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity present "Avian Flu: Ethical, Financial and Management Implications for Business", a conference that explores the business community's role in an effective response to an influenza pandemic.

This is the Part 2 of the conference - panel discussion on legal and ethical issues, moderated by moderated by Professor Donald Schepers, Baruch College. The panel covers an array of legal and ethical concerns: How should government balance the demands of public safety and business continuity? Who defines "essential" workers and to what degree can businesses protect them or be held liable for their exposure? Should business monitor workers and prevent those with certain symptoms, such as elevated temperature, from coming to work? Who gets scarce medical resources?

Panelists include:

Dr. Kenneth A. Berkowitz, Associate Professor of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine; Chief, Ethics Consultation, Veterans Health Administration National Center for Ethics in Health Care;

Jeff Buechner, PhD, Director of the Bioethics Institute and Lecturer in Philosophy, Rutgers University - Newark;

Nancy Dubler, Professor and Head, Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Montefiore Medical Center.

The event takes place on December 1, 2006 at the Baruch Vertical Campus, room 14-220.