Topic
16 Mar 2020
COVID-19
Access all of our work relating to the COVID-19 pandemic.
COVID-19
Current Project
Ongoing series of activities
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought uncertainty and disruption to our everyday lives.
During this time, we are working to provide support, information and advice to ensure that ethics is a key consideration in rapidly developing government and societal responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly in the UK. Please see below and on the left the links to a selection of our responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Policy
- Rapid policy briefing: COVID-19 antibody testing and ‘immunity certification’ (see the background discussion paper that helped to inform this briefing)
- Rapid policy briefing: Fair and equitable access to COVID-19 treatments and vaccines
- Joint letter with Involve to the Prime Minister calling for greater transparency and public involvement in UK response to COVID-19 pandemic
- Rapid policy briefing: Responding to the COVID-19 pandemic - ethical considerations
- Guide to the ethics of surveillance and quarantine for novel coronavirus
Webinar series
- Ethical implications of antibody testing and “immunity certification”
- Sharing the benefits of research: facilitating fair and equitable access to COVID-19 treatments and vaccines
- COVID-19 and policy making: the role of public engagement and deliberation
- Tackling the challenges of conducting COVID-19 research ethically in lower income settings
- Beyond the exit strategy: ethical uses of data-driven technology in the fight against COVID-19
- Ethics in the research response to COVID-19
