Welcome to PHEPREN (Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Ethics Network)
Led by the World Health Organization and supported by key partners including the Fogarty International Center, Global Forum on Bioethics in Research, Global Health Network, Global Network of WHO Collaborating Centres and Wellcome, PHEPREN is a global community of bioethicists building on pre-existing expertise and resources to provide real-time, trusted, contextual support to communities, policy makers, researchers, and responders in relation to the ethical issues arising out of global health emergencies, with a current focus on the COVID-19 pandemic. If you have experience in bioethics and would like to join the network, please fill out this form.
This is only the beginning of the website, more functionality to follow, including the ethics advisory platform but we thought it was important to start the movement now so as to get ethics experts registered before we launch the full website.
The WHO Health Ethics and Governance Unit invites proposals addressing significant ethical aspects of public health preparedness and response to COVID-19. Deadline 26 October. Read more
PHEPREN and the Global Forum on Bioethics on Research (GFBR) are collaborating on a series of seminars on past GFBR themes in the context of the COVID-19 research response. The seminars will address ethics of research in pregnancy, the ethics ... Read more
Just launched: PHEPREN Guidance on ethical justifications for accelerating COVID-19 vaccine research pathways Read more