Fair Allocation of Vaccines

Last Updated 08/04/2020

Op-Ed and Blog Posts

• Aisling McMahon, “Patents, Private Governance and Access to Vaccines and Treatments for COVID-19,” Journal of Medical Ethics Blog, August 4, 2020.
• Itamar Megiddo, “Fairer Financing of Vaccines in a World Living with COVID-19,” BMJ Global Health, July 15, 2020.
• Jason W. Nickerson and Matthew Herder, “COVID-19 Vaccines as Global Public Goods,” in Vulnerable: The Law, Policy, and Ethics of COVID-19, edited by Colleen Flood et al., Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, July 14, 2020.
• Barbara Pfeffer Billauer, “The Bioethics of COVID19 Care in the Elderly: Ventilation and Vaccines,” Available at SSRN, July 9, 2020.
• Alberto Giubilini, Julian Savulescu, and Dominic Wilkinson, “COVID-19 Vaccine: Vaccinate the Young to Protect the Old?” Journal of Law and the Biosciences, June 26, 2020.
• Padmashree Gehl Sampath, “How Do We Arrive at Fair Pricing for COVID-19 Therapies?” Petrie-Flom Blog, June 16, 2020.
• Yangzi Liu, Sanjana Salwi, and Brian Drolet, “Multivalue Ethical Framework for Fair Global Allocation of a COVID-19 Vaccine,” Journal of Medical Ethics, June 12, 2020.
• R. Thomas Day et al., “From Ventilators to Vaccines: Reframing the Ethics of Resource Allocation,” Bioethics.net, June 11, 2020.
• Thoai Ngo, “We Need a Pro-Poor and Pro-Black Response to COVID-19,” Think Global Health, June 10, 2020.
• Nuffield Council on Bioethics, Policy Briefing: Key Challenges for Ensuring Fair and Equitable Access to COVID-19 Vaccines and Treatments, May 29, 2020.
• Harald Schmidt, “Vaccine Rationing and the Urgency of Social Justice in the COVID-19 Response,” Hastings Center Report, May 28, 2020.
• Jane H. Williams and Angus Dawson, “Prioritising Access to Pandemic Influenza Vaccine: A Review of the Ethics Literature,” BMC Medical Ethics, May 14, 2020.
• Thomas J. Bollyky, Lawrence O. Gostin, and Margaret A. Hamburg, “The Equitable Distribution of COVID-19 Therapeutics and Vaccines,” JAMA, May 7, 2020.
• Kristy Buccieri and Stephen Gaetz, “Ethical Vaccine Distribution Planning for Pandemic Influenza: Prioritizing Homeless and Hard-to-Reach Populations,” Public Health Ethics 6 (2013): 185-196.
• Govind Persad, Alan Wertheimer, and Ezekiel J. Emanuel, “Principles for Allocation of Scarce Medical Interventions,” The Lancet, January 31, 2009.

Policy Briefs

• Nuffield Council on Bioethics, Policy Briefing: Key Challenges for Ensuring Fair and Equitable Access to COVID-19 Vaccines and Treatments, May 29, 2020.

Academic Articles

• Ubaka Ogbogu and Lorian Hardcastle, “Bioethics and Practical Justice in the Post-COVID-19 Era,” Developing World Bioethics, July 30, 2020.
• Itamar Megiddo, “Fairer Financing of Vaccines in a World Living with COVID-19,” BMJ Global Health, July 15, 2020.
• Jason W. Nickerson and Matthew Herder, “COVID-19 Vaccines as Global Public Goods,” in Vulnerable: The Law, Policy, and Ethics of COVID-19, edited by Colleen Flood et al., Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, July 14, 2020.
• Barbara Pfeffer Billauer, “The Bioethics of COVID19 Care in the Elderly: Ventilation and Vaccines,” Available at SSRN, July 9, 2020.
• Alberto Giubilini, Julian Savulescu, and Dominic Wilkinson, “COVID-19 Vaccine: Vaccinate the Young to Protect the Old?” Journal of Law and the Biosciences, June 26, 2020.
• Yangzi Liu, Sanjana Salwi, and Brian Drolet, “Multivalue Ethical Framework for Fair Global Allocation of a COVID-19 Vaccine,” Journal of Medical Ethics, June 12, 2020.
• Harald Schmidt, “Vaccine Rationing and the Urgency of Social Justice in the COVID-19 Response,” Hastings Center Report, May 28, 2020.
• Jane H. Williams and Angus Dawson, “Prioritising Access to Pandemic Influenza Vaccine: A Review of the Ethics Literature,” BMC Medical Ethics, May 14, 2020.
• Thomas J. Bollyky, Lawrence O. Gostin, and Margaret A. Hamburg, “The Equitable Distribution of COVID-19 Therapeutics and Vaccines,” JAMA, May 7, 2020.
• Kristy Buccieri and Stephen Gaetz, “Ethical Vaccine Distribution Planning for Pandemic Influenza: Prioritizing Homeless and Hard-to-Reach Populations,” Public Health Ethics 6 (2013): 185-196.
• Govind Persad, Alan Wertheimer, and Ezekiel J. Emanuel, “Principles for Allocation of Scarce Medical Interventions,” The Lancet, January 31, 2009.