Public health ethics

2024

Soliciting Diaries for “Real-Time” Insights Into the COVID-19 Pandemic: Methodological Reflections on Using Digital Technologies to Engage the Public

Objectives: To discuss the opportunities and challenges of the qualitative solicited diary approach using digital technologies as an innovative way to access insights into people’s lives and their unique stories in…
Ethical Considerations in Infodemic Management: Systematic Scoping Review

Background: During health emergencies, effective infodemic management has become a paramount challenge. A new era marked by a rapidly changing information ecosystem, combined with the widespread dissemination of misinformation and…
Beyond Trade-Offs: Autonomy, Effectiveness, Fairness, and Normativity in Risk and Crisis Communication

This paper addresses the critiques based on trade-offs and normativity presented in response to our target article proposing the Public Health Emergency Risk and Crisis Communication (PHERCC) framework. These critiques…
Cross country analysis of qualitative interviews: Developing a method, a community and an understanding of how Covid has been experienced around the globe

Since early 2020 there have been thousands of papers, reports, analyses, podcasts and media articles documenting each stage of the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as many hundreds of reviews, opinions,…
2023

The PHERCC matrix. An ethical framework for planning, governing, and evaluating Risk and Crisis Communication in the context of Public Health Emergencies

Risk and crisis communication (RCC) is a current ethical issue subject to controversy, mainly due to the tension between individual liberty (a core component of fairness) and effectiveness. In this…
Development of an Ethical Framework for Infodemic Management

I presented these slides at the14th Annual Meeting of the Global Network of WHO Collaborating Centres for Bioethics (Rome 2023). Related resources The OSF repository: https://osf.io/28d73/The RevMaster GitHub code: https://github.com/that-ugly-cat/revmaster
The PHERCC Matrix. An Ethical Framework for Planning, Governing, and Evaluating Risk and Crisis Communication in the Context of Public Health Emergencies

Risk and crisis communication (RCC) is a current ethical issue subject to controversy, mainly due to the tension between individual liberty (a core component of fairness) and effectiveness. In this…
WHO Expert Group on Ethical considerations on social listening and infodemic management

Scope The WHO expert group on ethical considerations of social listening and infodemic management (EG) will advise WHO in producing guidance and related tools with respect to the ethical principles associated with social…
2022

Boosting Public Discourse: Towards a Targeted, Evidence-Based Strategy to Improve Moral Reasoning

Introduction A booster for public discourse: an interdisciplinary research team develops a goal-oriented, evidence-based strategy to improve moral reasoning. The aim of this project is to contribute to a better…
Addressing Volatile Ethical Issues of Covid-19 with the Core Five Enduring Values List for Health Care Professionals

As we continue to adjust and assess our efforts to address changing pandemic challenges, we need to consider not just clinical metrics, but also key moral and societal core values:…