Our outputs include rapid research reviews, commentaries and policy guidance, as well as commissioned research, consultation responses and stakeholder engagement. A selection of recent UK Pandemic Ethics Accelerator outputs follow.
The Accelerator offers a diversity of intellectual views and analysis. All branded outputs have been peer reviewed before publication.
Response to the Joint Science and Technology and Health Select Committee inquiry: Coronavirus: Lessons learnt
The Accelerator's response to the Joint Science and Technology and Health Select Committee inquiry: Coronavirus: Lessons learnt.
Pfizer jab approved for children, but first other people need to be vaccinated
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.
View contentlaunchMaking older people visible: solving the denominator problem in care home data
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...
Blog post: Public engagement in a healthcare crisis: lessons from Ebola for covid-19 and the pandemics to come
By Jamie Webb The Overseas Development Institute described the 2014–16 Ebola outbreak as an ‘epidemic of mistrust: the flame of a virus hitting the tinder of suspicion.’ Local communities, sceptical of the motivations of foreign organisations and governments following...
View contentPfizer jab approved for children, but first other people need to be vaccinated
In this blog for the Conversation Dominic Wilkinson, Jonathan Pugh and Julian Savulescu argue that the UK and other Western Countries should be giving vaccines to adults at high risk of serious illness in countries in urgent need of vaccine,...
View contentlaunchSocial care data evidence tracker
This page shares information from the Ethic Accelerator’s work to follow studies and projects that offer insight into data and data infrastrucutres for social care during the COVID-19 pandemic.
View contentResponse 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: 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
Response to the Department of Health and Social Care consultation on mandatory vaccination in care homes: Prioritisation workstream
Immunity certification infrastructures and ethics: Principles and strategies for decision making
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.
Ethical considerations in unfairness and mitigating social disparities in covid-19 vaccine distribution and uptake in the UK
In this Rapid Ethics Review, Alex McKeown looks at the decisions that must be made about how vaccines should be allocated and distributed.