2012 Commemoration of the Presidential Apology for the U.S. Public Health Service Syphilis Study

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Featuring The First Public Health Ethics Intensive Course

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April 24-27, 2012

"The United States government did something that was deeply wrong—deeply, profoundly, morally wrong. It was an outrage to our commitment to integrity and equality for all our citizens...

To Macon, to Tuskegee, to the doctors who have been wrongly associated with the events there, you have our apology, as well. To our African American citizens, I am sorry that your federal government orchestrated a study so clearly racist. That can never happen again. It is against everything our country stands for..."

— President Clinton’s apology for the

Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment to the eight remaining survivors, May 16, 1997

National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care

For more information contact:

Beverly Ebo at 334-725-2319



National Center for Bioethics

in Research and Health Care

Bioethics Bldg. 44-107

Tuskegee, AL 36088

2012 Commemoration of the Presidential Apology for the U.S. Public Health Service Syphilis Study