WHO's central role in promoting public health in its Member States, and its core function to develop and promote ethical, evidence- and human-rights-based guidance for the development of health policies, programmes and services, places ethics at the heart of its work. There is an expectation that the Organization ensures that all of its research and public health interventions are founded upon a robust ethical framework. The establishment of the Public Health Ethics Consultative Group and Ethics Consultation Service in 2015 reflects the Organization's recognition of the importance of ethics in all of its work, with a special focus on public health interventions.

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