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.
Social 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.
Government healthy weight strategies: Ethical considerations
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’.
Learning to live with COVID – the tough choice
Jonathan Pugh, Dominic Wilkinson and Julian Savulescu discuss the ‘trilemma’ associated with a viral suppression strategy in this article in The Conversation.
View contentlaunchSense and sensitivity: can an inaccurate test be better than no test at all?
After news earlier this month that covid-19 lateral flow tests will be offered twice-weekly to people in England, Accelerator colleagues Jonathan Pugh, Dominic Wilkinson and Julian Savulescu have published a paper addressing the ethical questions raised by them in the...
View contentlaunchThere’s no need to pause vaccine rollouts when there’s a safety scare. Give the public the facts and let them decide
Julian Savulescu, Dominic Wilkinson and Jonathan Pugh co-authored this article for The Conversation. When someone gets sick after receiving a vaccine, this might be a complication or coincidence. This article argues that what matters ethically is not only vaccine confidence...
View contentlaunchMass antigen testing
Dominic Wilkinson, Julian Savulescu and Jonathan Pugh published a paper on mass antigen testing in the Journal of Medical Ethics.
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