This is your chance to share your Global Health Clinical Research experiences. Tell others about your studies, your ideas and your research site. What happened with your study today? Have you had any tricky issues, perhaps you solved one? Please tell us...
19 February
Basic Health Needs in Relation to Human Rights in a Global Health Crisis
Author: Mercury Shitindo, Africa International University - Kenya, & Anahuac University-Mexico Introduction How does one determine what are basic ...
16 December
Casebook on ethical issues in epidemic health research: call for submissions
Casebook on ethical issues in epidemic health research Lead editors: Susan Bull and Michael Parker, Wellcome Centre for Ethics ...
17 November
Restoring confidence in science – tinkering in the margin is not enough
Piero Olliaro, Professor of Poverty-related Infectious Diseases, Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, ...
28 September
A COVID-19 vaccine is needed as soon as possible – how can this be accomplished in the most ethical way possible?
Maxwell J. Smith, PhD, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada (maxwell.smith@uwo.ca) The world is desperate for a safe and effective COVID-19 ...
9 September
Opportunities and challenges for ethicists advising public health authorities during the COVID-19 pandemic
Maxwell J. Smith, PhD, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada (maxwell.smith@uwo.ca) The COVID-19 pandemic has raised a number of distinctive ...
27 August
“Publication by press release,” retracted COVID-19 studies, and peer review via Twitter: Upholding publication ethics in the COVID-era
Author: Eemaan Kaur Thind, MPH(c) Western University, Canada A summary of Epidemic Ethics’s sixth seminar Chair: Professor Ross ...
5 August
Setting up a Virtual Clinical Ethics Consultation Service in the time of Covid-19
Author: Sharon Kaur, Faculty of Law, University of Malaya, Malaysia Healthcare professionals working in clinical settings are likely to face ...
30 July
COVID-19 immunity licensing in Africa: practical, socio-cultural, and ethical bottlenecks
Author: Amos Laar, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Public Health, School of Public Health, University of Ghana, Legon. E-mail: alaar@ug.edu.gh Twitter: ...
24 July
COVID 19 human infection challenge studies: a practical guide for ethical review
Oxford A Research Ethics Committee Under international guidance, research involving human subjects requires a favourable opinion from a Research ...
20 July
Equitable global access to a COVID-19 Vaccine: How much is too much to ask?
Author: John Barugahare, Ph.D.Department of Philosophy, Makerere University jbarugahare@chuss.mak.ac.ug Author: Joseph Millum, Ph.D., M.Sc.Clinical Center Department of Bioethics & Fogarty ...
3 June
Ethics Q&A COVID-19 human challenge studies
Drawing on the recent seminar, this blog post addresses ethical considerations relating to justifications for, and the acceptability of, such ...
12 May
COVID-19 Immunity Passports: Inevitable? Ethical? - A webinar summary and resources
COVID-19 Immunity Passports: Inevitable? Ethical? - A summary of Epidemic Ethics' second webinar. The recorded seminar is available here ...
9 April
COVID-19: putting the poor and vulnerable on the radar
By Jerome Amir Singh Since WHO declared COVID-19 a Public Health Emergency of International Concern in late January 2020, the organisation ...