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
- Spotlight briefing: Ten questions on the next phase of the UK’s COVID-19 response (15 October 2020)
- Rapid policy briefing: COVID-19 antibody testing and ‘immunity certification’ (18 June 2020). See the background discussion paper that helped to inform this briefing.
- Rapid policy briefing: Fair and equitable access to COVID-19 treatments and vaccines (29 May 2020)
- Joint letter with Involve to the Prime Minister calling for greater transparency and public involvement in UK response to COVID-19 pandemic (28 April 2020)
- Statement: COVID-19 and the basics of democratic governance (25 April 2020)
- Rapid policy briefing: Responding to the COVID-19 pandemic - ethical considerations (17 March 2020)
- Guide to the ethics of surveillance and quarantine for novel coronavirus (10 February 2020)
Webinar series
- Ethical implications of antibody testing and “immunity certification” (2 July 2020)
- Sharing the benefits of research: facilitating fair and equitable access to COVID-19 treatments and vaccines (5 June 2020)
- COVID-19 and policy making: the role of public engagement and deliberation (15 May 2020)
- Tackling the challenges of conducting COVID-19 research ethically in lower income settings (1 May 2020)
- Beyond the exit strategy: ethical uses of data-driven technology in the fight against COVID-19 (17 April 2020)
- Ethics in the research response to COVID-19 (3 April 2020)
Resources and opinion
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