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.
Lord Sumption and the values of life, liberty and security: before and since the COVID-19 outbreak
In this article in the Journal of Medical Ethics John Coggon argues that Lord Sumption's apparent inconsistencies in his positions are not clearly reconcilable, and invite critical analysis of his impacts on health law and policy.
View contentlaunchShould we delay covid-19 vaccination in children?
In this Head to head article in the BMJ, Dominic Wilkinson argues in favour of delaying covid-19 vaccination in children.
View contentlaunchCovid: Why we should stop testing in schools
In this blog for the Conversation Dominic Wilkinson, Jonathan Pugh and Julian Savulescu argue that whether we should continue testing and having bubbles in schools is not a scientific question, but an ethical one.
View contentlaunchPublic 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 a...
View contentMaking people visible in care home data
In this blog for the International Long-Term Care Policy Network Cian O'Donovan writes about the Rapid Ethics Review of data use in the UK care home sector, in which he and colleagues argue that data infrastructures expanded to monitor and...
View contentlaunchResponse 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,...
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