PRIVATE AND CONTROVERSIAL

<p>The COVID-19 pandemic has illustrated how actions taken for the management of a public health emergency can bear significant implications for individual liberty dignity and privacy. Collection of health data contact tracing mandatory testing and vaccine passports are some examples of such interventions. </p> <p>However these tensions are certainly not new. Nor are they limited to situations of health emergencies.</p> <p>The everyday interactions between the individual the community and the public health ecosystem raise a number of questions about how to balance the state's legitimate public health interests with the informational privacy bodily integrity and decisional autonomy of citizens.</p> <p>Set against the background of the COVID pandemic creation of the National Digital Health Mission and the ongoing debate on data protection the collection of essays in <em>Private and Controversial</em> will explore the intersection between privacy and public health. The contributors include experts and practitioners from the fields of public health law economics public policy and public administration. </p>