Harnessing expertise to rapidly integrate ethical thinking into policy-making
The UK Pandemic Ethics Accelerator is a new initiative that brings UK ethics research expertise to bear on the multiple, ongoing ethical challenges arising during pandemics. We provide rapid evidence, guidance and critical analysis to decision-makers across science, medicine, government and public health. We also support public debate on key ethical challenges.
Featured reports
Dominic Wilkinson, Jonathan Pugh and Julian Savulescu published an opinion piece in The Conversation, Pfizer jab approved for children, but first other people need to be vaccinated.
This Rapid Ethics Review highlights the state-of-the-art research on the reasons for the denominator problem in care home data and shows how ethical arguments are critical in helping decision-makers understand the values and issues at play in designing better data infrastructures, and the urgency with which these infrastructures must be rolled out.
Response to the Department of Health and Social Care consultation on mandatory vaccination in care homes: Data use and Public values, transparency and governance workstreams
Response to the Department of Health and Social Care consultation on mandatory vaccination in care homes: Prioritisation workstream
Dr Cian O’Donavan, Dr Melanie Smallman and Professor James Wilson, in this Rapid Ethics Review, help us to understand the values at play in the way immunity certification infrastructures might work.
In this Rapid Ethics Review, Alex McKeown looks at the decisions that must be made about how vaccines should be allocated and distributed.
In this Rapid Ethics Review, John Coggon explores how ethical arguments help us to understand the values at play in public health framings of an ‘obesity epidemic’.
