About Epidemic Ethics: Global issues in ethics and COVID-19
Epidemic Ethics: Global issues in ethics and COVID-19
About this Collection
The Epidemic Ethics Collection brings together timely and insightful research on ethical issues in public health and research responses to health emergencies, with an initial focus on the COVID-19 pandemic. The Collection addresses the need for support and resources required to identify and analyse ethical issues, and to better understand the context in which they arise.
This dedicated content hub welcomes different research formats and outputs including Open Letters, opinion pieces, literature reviews, policy and conceptual analysis, and empirical, normative, and policy research.
Collection Advisors:
Susan Bull
Ethox Centre, University of Oxford, UK
& University of Auckland, New Zealand
Susan Bull, BSc, LLB, MA, PhD is the Senior Researcher & University Research Lecturer at the Ethox Centre and Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities. She is also the Programme Director for Epidemic Ethics , and Associate Professor in the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Over the past two decades Susan’s research work has focused on global health research ethics, and includes ethical issues associated with data sharing, seeking consent to research, and the ethical review of research. Current research interests include the ethics of controlled human infection (challenge) studies and ethical issues associated with infectious disease outbreaks, epidemics and pandemics.
Katherine Littler
World Health Organization, Switzerland
Katherine Littler is the co-lead of the Global Health Ethics & Governance Unit at WHO Headquarters, Geneva. She is passionate about embedding ethics more effectively in global health decision making and increasing ethics capacity around the globe. Prior to joining WHO in 2018, she co-led the Global Policy Team at Wellcome, where she provided strategic advice on regulatory, governance and ethical issues. Katherine is involved in international partnerships and has sat on many oversight bodies, including: the PHE Ebola Governance Group; the IDDO Ebola Platform Steering Committee; the H3Africa Ethics and Regulatory Working Group and she was the chair of the GLOPID-R data sharing working group.
Maxwell J. Smith
School of Health Studies, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Maxwell J. Smith, PhD, MSc, is a Bioethicist and Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Western University in London, Ontario, Canada. He is also Special Advisor to the Epidemic Ethics network. At Western, Max is the Co-Director of the Health Ethics, Law, and Policy (HELP) Lab, is cross-appointed to the Department of Philosophy, and is a faculty member in the Rotman Institute of Philosophy. His research and expertise is in the area of public health ethics. Max uses philosophical and social science methods to examine ethical issues in contexts of infectious disease and in the pursuit of health equity and social justice in public health policy, practice, and research.
This dedicated content hub welcomes different research formats and outputs including Open Letters, opinion pieces, literature reviews, policy and conceptual analysis, and empirical, normative, and policy research.
Collection Advisors:
Susan Bull
Ethox Centre, University of Oxford, UK
& University of Auckland, New Zealand
Susan Bull, BSc, LLB, MA, PhD is the Senior Researcher & University Research Lecturer at the Ethox Centre and Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities. She is also the Programme Director for Epidemic Ethics , and Associate Professor in the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Over the past two decades Susan’s research work has focused on global health research ethics, and includes ethical issues associated with data sharing, seeking consent to research, and the ethical review of research. Current research interests include the ethics of controlled human infection (challenge) studies and ethical issues associated with infectious disease outbreaks, epidemics and pandemics.
Katherine Littler
World Health Organization, Switzerland
Katherine Littler is the co-lead of the Global Health Ethics & Governance Unit at WHO Headquarters, Geneva. She is passionate about embedding ethics more effectively in global health decision making and increasing ethics capacity around the globe. Prior to joining WHO in 2018, she co-led the Global Policy Team at Wellcome, where she provided strategic advice on regulatory, governance and ethical issues. Katherine is involved in international partnerships and has sat on many oversight bodies, including: the PHE Ebola Governance Group; the IDDO Ebola Platform Steering Committee; the H3Africa Ethics and Regulatory Working Group and she was the chair of the GLOPID-R data sharing working group.
Maxwell J. Smith
School of Health Studies, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Maxwell J. Smith, PhD, MSc, is a Bioethicist and Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Western University in London, Ontario, Canada. He is also Special Advisor to the Epidemic Ethics network. At Western, Max is the Co-Director of the Health Ethics, Law, and Policy (HELP) Lab, is cross-appointed to the Department of Philosophy, and is a faculty member in the Rotman Institute of Philosophy. His research and expertise is in the area of public health ethics. Max uses philosophical and social science methods to examine ethical issues in contexts of infectious disease and in the pursuit of health equity and social justice in public health policy, practice, and research.
Collection Advisors
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Susan Bull
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Katherine Littler
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Maxwell Smith