Next 2021 Brocher Meetup sessions
29 April | Ruth Macklin (2 pm, Geneva time zone)
Mandating Covid-19 Vaccination Certificates and Passports: Benefits, Risks, and Challenges
Vaccine “certificates” or “passports” are a way of demonstrating that a person has received one of the Covid-19 vaccines. As a public health measure, these certificates could be used to allow vaccinated individuals entry to sites that would be forbidden to those who lack the certificate. They could be used to permit holders to cross international borders, to enter nursing homes, and for a variety of commercial purposes. Among the ethical problems with this development are the inequities that may result in different populations, the prospect of strong opposition by the anti-vaccination movement, different laws in different countries, and an emerging industry of fraudulent vaccine certificates.
Registration link coming soon
Ruth Macklin – Emeritus Professor of Bioethics in the Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, USA
macklinruth@gmail.com
Sharon Bassan – Legal Scholar with expertise in bioethics, health policy, innovation, and information technology law and ethics, Jaharis Faculty Fellow in Health Law and Intellectual Property, DePaul University College of Law, Chicago, USA
sbassan@depaul.edu
Diego S. Silva, Lecturer in Bioethics Sydney Health Ethics, The University of Sydney School of Public Health, Australia
diego.silva@sydney.edu.au
Maxwell J. Smith– Assistant Professor of Bioethics and Health Policy, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
maxwell.smith@uwo.ca
27 May | Laurie Zoloth (2 pm, Geneva time zone)
More details coming soon
Brocher Meetup Replays
Special Edition # 1 | 13 November 2020 | The Covid-19 Pandemic: A Humanitarian Crisis
For this special edition, we received:
- Karl Blanchet Professor @ Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva
- Joanne Liù Doctor @ University of Montreal
- Antoine Flahault Professor @ University of Geneva
- Ciara Staunton Doctor @ Middlesex University of London as moderator
# 1 | 28 January 2021 | Covid and bioethics; What role have bioethicists have played in forming policy, what have we learned so far and how best to be constructive going forward
For this first Brocher Meetup, we received:
Arthur Caplan Professor @ NYU Grossmann School of Medicine
Kiarash Aramesh Assistant Professor @ Edinboro University
Thomas Douglas Professor @ University of Oxford
Jan Heldge Solbakk Professor @ University of Oslo
Yeyang Su Doctor@ Chinese Academy of Sciences of Beijing
Related Bibliography:
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Kupferschmidt, K. (2020) WHO unveils global plan to fairly distribute COVID-19 vaccine, but challenges await. Science ( Link) | World Health Organization (2020) WHO SAGE values framework for the allocation and prioritization of COVID-19 vaccination, 14 September 2020 (Link) | COVAX – Working for global equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines (Link)
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Initiatives from South Africa and India in calling for the IP reform to facilitate access to vaccines in less resourceful countries. Usher, A. D. (2020) South Africa and India push for COVID-19 patents ban. The Lancet. [Online] 396 (10265), 1790–1791.
Springer article (Link)
# 2 | 11 February 2021 | Priority groups for COVID-19 vaccination: Ethics, policy and practice in select jurisdictions
For this second Brocher Meetup, we received:
Françoise Baylis Professor @ Dalhousie University
Gaia Barazzetti Senior Researcher @ University of Lausanne
Angus Clarke Professor @ Cardiff University
Bjorn Hoffman Professor @ University of Oslo
Jan Eerik Leppänen PhD Researcher @ Felm NGO
# 3 | 25 February 2021 | From your perspective, what has been your country's greatest or most unexpected challenge or unintended consequence in relation to Covid-19?
For this third Brocher Meetup, we received:
Diane B. Paul Professor @ University Massachusetts Boston
Meredith Temple Smith Professor @ University of Melbourne
Ruth Chadwick Professor Emerita @ Cardiff University
Flis Henwood Professor @ University of Brighton
Alexandre McClelland Assistant Professor @ Carleton University
Brigìda Riso PhD @ CIES-iscte, Lisbon
Priya Satalkar Dr @ Ghent University
Denise Steers Dr @ University of Otago
Mary Jean Walker Dr @ La Trobe University
Follow this link to watch the replay on our youtube channel: Replay
# 4 | 11 March 2021 | What Have We Learned About COVID Preparedness so Far, and Where Does Bioethics Leads Us?
For this fourth Brocher Meetup, we received:
Barry R. Furrow Professor @ Drexel University
Robert Cook-Deagan Professor @ Arizona State University
Dena S. Davies Professor @ Lehigh University
Stefan Ecks Doctor @ University of Edinburgh
Reed Pyeritz Professor @ University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Leigh E. Rich Professor @ Georgia Southern University
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# 5 | 25 March 2021 | Covid and its impact on the ethics of pandemic surveillance
For this fith Brocher Meetup, we received:
Bertrand Taithe Professor @ The University of Manchester
Michael Bartos Honorary Associate Professor @ Australian National University
Lukas Engelmann Doctor @ The University of Edinburgh
Alain Giami Emeritus Research Professor @ INSERM France
Adam Henschke Doctor @ National Security College, College of Asia and the Pacific
Christos Lynteris Doctor @ University of St Andrews
Benjamin Mason Meier Associate Professor @ University of North California
Monika Sawhney Associate Professor @ University of North California
Follow this link to watch the replay on our youtube channel: Replay