Equitable entry, solidarity, and international health justice: Bridging the hole between ethics and decision-making in pandemics
From useful resource allocation and priority-setting, entry to vaccines, vaccine mandates, lockdowns, journey restrictions, public health surveillance, and obligations to conduct scientific trials, the COVID-19 pandemic has raised profound moral challenges on an unprecedented international scale.
On the identical time, and in addition in an unprecedented method, moral values like fairness, equity, solidarity, and belief have figured prominently in international political discussions. Regardless of an abundance of steering, the query stays: how a lot progress, if any, have we made in reaching these values, in advancing in the direction of international health justice? A lot has been mentioned concerning the significance of evidence-informed decision-making, however what have we achieved by way of ‘Ethics-informed decision-making’? This Summit supplies a discussion board to debate the interpretation of ethics into coverage making in COVID-19; the place now we have succeeded and failed; what are the most important challenges and what steps must be taken to enhance ethics knowledgeable public health decision-making for pandemic preparedness and response.
The Summit is organized by the WHO Heath Ethics and Governance Unit in collaboration with the WHO’s Working Group on Ethics & COVID-19 and the ACT-Accelerator Ethics & Governance Working Group.
Confirmed audio system embrace: Thalia Arawi, Caesar Atuire, Alena Buyx, Ezekiel Emanuel, Ruth Faden, Anthony Fauci, Christine Grady, Fatima Hassan, Sharon Kaur, Ilona Kickbusch, Florencia Luna, Roli Mathur, Peter Singer, Jerome Singh, Soumya Swaminathan, Beatriz Thomé, Ross Upshur, Effy Vayena.
Register Right here: https://who.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hjp0eY19RDawdZfj1EML8Q
Summit Agenda
13:00-13:10 (CET)
– Opening of the Summit
– Welcome be aware by the Director Basic
13:10 – 14:10 (CET)
Session 1: Conversations on the intersection of Ethics and Policy
14:10 – 15:30 (CET)
Session 2: World Roundtable on the Function of Ethics in Pandemic Response
15:30 – 15:50 (CET)
Break (Movies)
15:50 – 16:50 (CET)
Session 3: In the direction of World Well being Justice
16:60 – 17:30
Session 4: Ethics knowledgeable Policy Making: The Route Ahead