1 Interconnectedness and Interdependence: Challenges for Public Health Ethics Jonathan Beever & Nicolae Morar 1 Forthcoming in the American Journal of Bioethics An increasing number of contemporary voices in both bioethics and environmental ethics have grown dissatisfied with the schisms, abysses, and raging torrents that continue to flow between those two domains of ethical inquiry. So, Lee’s call for a public health ethics that serves as a bridge between them is a welcome addition to an expanding literature that highlights in terms of ‘health’ the interconnection between individuals, their communities, and their environments. It is clear to us that public health ethics, in the footsteps of others seeking the same ecological understanding, has begun to articulate values based on “our connectedness with each other, animals, and the environment” (line 17). This conception comes not only from environmental philosophy (Jamieson 2001), from philosophy of ecology (Shrader-Frechette & McCoy 1993), and from eco- phenomenology (Brown and Toadvine 2003), but also from within bioethics and environmental ethics themselves (Beever and Morar 2016; Morar and Skorburg 2016; Jennings 2016; Whitehouse 2003). Indeed, Lee’s argument is a re-visitation of Van Rensselaer Potter’s own predominantly anthropocentric concerns about ‘environmental health’ as both intend to capture the ways that environmental and nonhuman animal factors influence human health. All agree that there is a growing recognition of the intimate relations amongst previously siloed epistemic units and ethical domains. Yet we estimate that both Potter, from whom the metaphor of bridging arose (Potter 1971), and 1 Author names are listed in alphabetical order, which reflects equal contribution to the authorship of the article. Address correspondence to Jonathan Beever, Department of Philosophy, University of Central Florida, 4111 Pictor Lane, Orlando, FL 32816 USA. E-mail: jonathan.beever@ucf.edu