Jamie Webb, University of Edinburgh Hugh Whittall, Nuffield Council on Bioethics Summary: UK public engagement during the pandemic so far has focused on measurement: of the public’s beliefs, intentions and opinions. Navigating our covid future will require making difficult, value-laden...
Dr Cian O’Donovan, Dr Melanie Smallman and Professor James Wilson, University College London. Summary: Counts of covid-19 deaths will continue to influence government responses for some time to come Infrastructures for counting deaths must be adapted to fit evolving circumstances...
Professor John Coggon, University of Bristol Summary: The prominence of health protection rationales to justify regulatory and policy measures during the covid-19 pandemic has logically drawn attention to health harms, including collateral harms, that have also been created. ‘Health/health trade-offs’...
Living and dying with covid: The tough choices ahead Dr Jonathan Pugh, Professor Dominic Wilkinson and Professor Julian Savulescu, University of Oxford Summary: The UK is currently aiming to suppress the virus to acceptable levels, rather than to eliminate it completely....
Living and dying with covid: Not all deaths are equal Dr Sarah Chan, University of Edinburgh. Summary: The covid-19 pandemic has been tracked largely in terms of numbers of deaths, but death is not the only harm we should take...
Joint UK Pandemic Ethics Accelerator and University of Oxford Press Release
A new national initiative to bring ethical thinking into pandemic policy-making launches today. The UK Pandemic Ethics Accelerator harnesses and mobilises the UK’s internationally renowned expertise in ethics research. Four major UK universities and the Nuffield Council on Bioethics form...
Welcome to the first edition of the bimonthly UK Pandemic Ethics Accelerator newsletter which sees the launch of our new website and highlights some of the key recent and forthcoming outputs. The UK Pandemic Ethics Accelerator is a new £1.4M...