A collaborative platform and network for responsive infectious diseases bioethics research

We seek to establish a research network and collaborative platform for rapidly identifying and analysing ethical and policy issues arising in infectious disease treatment, research, response, and preparedness, and engaging in research on the profound ethical challenges presented by infectious diseases across the globe.

The platform and network will provide real-time ethics and policy support, create a mechanism for collaborative responsive research as well as forward-looking projects with longer timeframes and engaging with crucial stakeholders from across high-resource and LMICs, all focusing on the critically important area of infectious disease and global health bioethics.

In addition to being responsive to the needs as identified by the network, we expect the platform and network to be available to respond to needs identified by the WHO Public Health Emergency Ethics Preparedness and Response (PHEEPR) Network and other global bioethics efforts.

The Platform and Network will be structured into two related and overlapping sets of activities, which will complement and build on each other.

These will comprise: an Infectious Disease Ethics Forum for discussion of emerging ethical issues, a Collaborative Network to identify important issues for policy response and research; and, a programme of global health ethics research focusing on infectious disease.