Latest news from the UK Pandemic Ethics Accelerator.
Monday 23rd May, 11am-2pm The UK Pandemic Ethics Accelerator hosted a free, online conference to explore, examine, and explain how value judgments did, do, can, and should feature in public decision-making and policy. The full video recording of the event...
View contentThis public dialogue explores the ethical and societal considerations of Covid-19, Covid-19 recovery, and future pandemics. View the report or download below: HVM_UK Pandemic Ethics Accelerator_Report
View contentThe UK Pandemic Ethics Accelerator and Pandemic and Beyond seek to jointly commission a substantial piece of ethics research from an external academic(s) to support their current inquiries. This piece of work will look at all of the ethics and data-handling research...
View contentA new public dialogue exploring the ethical and social considerations of covid-19 has found that addressing the societal inequalities worsened by the pandemic, building trust and transparency into government policies, and involving the public more in policy making are key...
View contentThis second edition of the bimonthly UK Pandemic Ethics Accelerator newsletter highlights our recent outputs and plans for the coming weeks. Our recent work The Accelerator collaborative has produced numerous outputs over the last two months including Rapid Ethics Reviews,...
View contentBy 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 contentThe Accelerator has established an Advisory Board whose role is to: support expansion of the Accelerator’s network nationally and internationally; help expand our reach, impact and relevance, particularly in policy and wider society; identify and facilitate new relationships to people...
View contentThe UK Pandemic Ethics Accelerator is putting out a research commissioning call entitled ‘Need beyond covid: Addressing the backlog for medical care in the NHS’ under its Prioritisation theme. A brief summary of the call topic is below, and more detailed information can...
View contentWith the worst of the pandemic behind us, even as our country starts to return to normal life, challenging ethical questions remain. How should we evaluate the decisions that were made in the first waves of the covid-19 pandemic? What...
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