Ethics, law and decision-making during COVID-19 (Pandemic & Beyond)

Join us to hear what we are learning about good and ethical decision making in a pandemic and how to build public trust in those decisions.

 What is the pandemic teaching us about how to make good and ethical decisions during a pandemic and how to build public trust in these decisions? 

This webinar will communicate policy implications and recommendations from several Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded studies conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic around the themes of:

• ethics in the treatment of healthcare staff

• engaging the public in decision-making

• the increase in fraud

• best practice and reform of procurement processes

• the equitable distribution of vaccines

Who should attend?

Policymakers, officials and stakeholders in national and local government; those with an interest in public procurement, criminal justice, healthcare and public health, emergency response management.

Format

Lightning presentations from speakers followed by open questions and discussion.

Speakers

Speakers from the following AHRC studies:

• NHS Voices of COVID-19

• Nursing Narratives: Racism in the Pandemic 

• Reset Ethics: Ethical decision-making in maternity care and paediatrics 

• The Observatory for Monitoring Data-Driven Approaches to COVID-19

• The UK Ethics Accelerator

• The Role of Good Governance and the Rule of Law in Building Public Trust 

• An Urgent Review of Single Source Procurement During the Pandemic: Recommendations for Best Practice and Reform

• Fraud During a Pandemic

• Assessing the viability of access and benefit sharing models of equitable distribution of vaccines in international law

The session will be chaired by Professor Pascale Aebischer (University of Exeter).

A Zoom link, along with speaker and presentation details and briefing papers for each project will be circulated to attendees following registration.

About the organisers

This event is being organised by the Pandemic and Beyond team, with the support of Culture Commons.

The Pandemic and Beyond is a project funded by the AHRC that brings together 70+ teams of researchers across the UK who are exploring the wide-ranging impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and looking for solutions. Find out more about us and our work here.

Culture Commons amplifies the voices of creative, cultural and research organisations who want their work to have an impact on policy at a local, national and international level.