| Justice in Global Health Emergencies & Humanitarian Crises

In Episode 14 of Just Emergenices ‘Vulnerability as Layers,’ Professor Florencia Luna discusses her conception

McGill Research Assistant Eliza Yadav interviews Professor Matthew Hunt and Research Coordinator Ani Chenier about their collective study on the ethics of conducting clinical research during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In their AJoB Commentary, Angela Ballantyne and Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra discuss to what extent the under-representation of minoritised ethnic groups in Covid-19 vaccine research constitutes an injustice.

In Episode 12 ‘Vulnerability Part 5’ Professor Samia Hurst discusses her conception of vulnerability and what it can tell us about the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. 

Ayesha Ahmad, drawing on her experience as an expert witness in asylum seeker cases, discusses the conflict between the trauma that asylum seekers embody, live, and express and the way that such stories are received by the paradigms of psychiatry and law.

Emma Nance, postgraduate student on the LLM in Medical Law and Ethics at Edinburgh University School of Law, shares her thoughts and personal experience of racism in the context of Covid-19.

The possibility of using immunity certifications as a new way of monitoring and managing the spread of Covid-19 has recently garnered a lot of attention. Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra recently spoke at Nuffield’s ‘Ethical implications of antibody testing and “immunity certification”’ webinar about how such policies might exacerbate existing inequalities. Find out more and watch the webinar (link included) here.

In our fourth animation, Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra discusses the terms ’emergency’, ‘disasters’, and ‘crisis’, their usage, and their ethical implications.

Peter West-Oram discusses how the UK government has failed to act in solidarity with its citizens during the Covid-19 outbreak.