Pandemics and Social Policy | UNC Center for Bioethics

Last Updated 08/04/2020

Op-Eds and Blog Posts

Mark A. Rothstein and Julia Irzyk, “Lawsuits of Last Resort: Employees Fight for Safe Worklplaces during COVID-19,” Bioethics Forum, July 29, 2020.
Sanjay G. Reddy, “Population Health, Economics, and Ethics in the Age of COVID-19,” BMJ Global Health, July 15, 2020.
Sridhar Venkatapuram, “How Should We Allocate Health and Social Resources During a Pandemic?” in Vulnerable: The Law, Policy, and Ethics of COVID-19, edited by Colleen Flood et al., Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, July 14, 2020.
Leilani Farha and Kaitlin Schwan, “The Front Line Defense: Housing and Human Rights in the Time of COVID-19,” in Vulnerable: The Law, Policy, and Ethics of COVID-19, edited by Colleen Flood et al., Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, July 14, 2020.
Anne Levesque and Sophie Thériault, “Systemic Discrimination in Government Services and Programs and its Impact on First Nations Peoples During the COVID-19 Pandemic,” in Vulnerable: The Law, Policy, and Ethics of COVID-19, edited by Colleen Flood et al., Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, July 14, 2020.
Jamie Carlin Watson, “COVID-19 is a Wake-up Call for Ethical Health Communication,” Journal of Medical Ethics Blog, July 13, 2020.
Jonathan Michaels, “COVID-19: Value-Based Policy Making,” Journal of Medical Ethics Blog, July 8, 2020.
Emily Berkman and Douglas Diekema, “Cracks in the System: Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic,” Bioethics Forum, June 26, 2020.
Silvia Huerta Lopez, “‘If the Virus Doesn’t Kill Us, The Stress and Anxiety Will.’ Immigrants During COVID,” Bioethics Forum, June 24, 2020.Jordan Pascoe and Mitch Stripling, “Surging Solidarity: Reorienting Ethics for Pandemics,” Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, June 17, 2020.
Carlo Alfredo Clerici, Tullio Proserpio, and Costanza Raimondi, “Costs and Values: What Can We Learn from the COVID-19 Pandemic?” Bioethics.net, June 8, 2020.
Samia Hurst, “Accepting Trust for Pandemic Response: We Need Leaders to Think Twice,” Journal of Medical Ethics Blog, June 7, 2020.
Jonathan Michaels, “Don’t Blame the Science,” Journal of Medical Ethics Blog, June 4, 2020.
Craig Klugman, “Lessons Learned and Ignored in a Pandemic,” Bioethics.net, May 28, 2020.
Caesar Atuire and Sridhar Venkatapuram, “Report from Sub-Sarahan Africa: “When the Health Fundamentals Are Weak, COVID-19 Will Expose You,” Bioethics Forum, May 22, 2020.
Derek Soled, Michelle Bayefsky, and Rahul Nayak, “When Does the Cure Become Worse Than the Disease? Applying Cost-Benefit Analysis to the COVID-19 Recovery,” Journal of Medical Ethics Blog, May 19, 2020.
Bruce Jennings, “Beyond the COVID Crisis – A New Social Contract with Public Health,” Bioethics Forum, May 19, 2020.
Benjamin Mason Meier and Judith Bueno De Mesquita, “Realizing the Right to Health Must be the Foundation of the COVID-19 Response,” Universal Rights Group Blog, May 6, 2020.
Daisy Cheung and Eric C. Ip, “What are the Obligations of the State? A Public Mental Health Ethics Perspective on the COVID-19 Lockdowns,” Journal of Medical Ethics Blog, May 6, 2020.
Gregg Gonsalves and Amy Kapczynski, “The New Politics of Care,” Boston Review, April 27, 2020.
Kieran Oberman, “COVID-19 Prisoner Releases are not a Matter of Mercy, but of Justice,” World Economic Forum, April 27, 2020.
Archon Fung, “COVID-19 Requires More Democracy, Not Less,” Boston Review, April 23, 2020.
Nancy Berlinger, “Immigrants, Health Inequities, and Social Citizenship in COVID-19 Response and Recovery,” Bioethics Forum, April 23, 2020.
Joseph Margulies, “Let the People Go,” Boston Review, April 20, 2020.
Françoise Baylis, “U.S. and Canada: Being Good Neighbors in the Pandemic,” Bioethics Forum, April 14, 2020.
Matthew Adler and James Hammitt, “A Better Way to Grapple with Benefit-Cost Tradeoffs in a Pandemic,” The Hill, April 13, 2020.
Michael J. Sandel, “Are We All In This Together?” The New York Times, April 13, 2020.
“Restarting America Means People Will Die. So When Do We Do It?” The New York Times Magazine, April 10, 2020.
Brishen Rogers, “Work After Quarantine,” Boston Review, April 7, 2020.
Peter Singer and Michael Plant, “When Will the Pandemic Cure Be Worse Than the Disease?” Project Syndicate, April 6, 2020.
Regina Rini, “When to Think Like a Utilitarian,” Times Literary Supplement, April 1, 2020.
Verina Wild et al., “Responding to the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic: Experiences of an Ad Hoc Public Health Ethics Consultation,” Journal of the Medical Ethics Blog, April 1, 2020.

Policy Briefs

Working Group Ethics, Public Health Ethics and COVID-19, April 22, 2020.

Academic Articles

Thana C. de Campos, “Guiding Principles of Global Health Governance in Times of Pandemics: Solidarity, Subsidiarity, and Stewardship in COVID-19,” The American Journal of Bioethics, July 27, 2020.
Mary A. Ott and Caitlin Bernard, “Preserving the Reproductive Rights of Girls and Women in the Era of COVID-19: The Need for a Least Restrictive Solution,” The American Journal of Bioethics, July 27, 2020.
Seth A. Berkowitz, Crystal Wiley Cené, and Avik Chatterjee, “COVID-19 and Health Equity – A Time to Think Big,” The New England Journal of Medicine, July 22, 2020.
Sanjay G. Reddy, “Population Health, Economics, and Ethics in the Age of COVID-19,” BMJ Global Health, July 15, 2020.
Sridhar Venkatapuram, “How Should We Allocate Health and Social Resources During a Pandemic?” in Vulnerable: The Law, Policy, and Ethics of COVID-19, edited by Colleen Flood et al., Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, July 14, 2020.
Leilani Farha and Kaitlin Schwan, “The Front Line Defense: Housing and Human Rights in the Time of COVID-19,” in Vulnerable: The Law, Policy, and Ethics of COVID-19, edited by Colleen Flood et al., Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, July 14, 2020.
Anne Levesque and Sophie Thériault, “Systemic Discrimination in Government Services and Programs and its Impact on First Nations Peoples During the COVID-19 Pandemic,” in Vulnerable: The Law, Policy, and Ethics of COVID-19, edited by Colleen Flood et al., Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, July 14, 2020.
Jamie Chai Yun Liew, “Preventing the Spread of Anti-Asian Racism: Including Critical Race Analysis in a Pandemic Plan,” in Vulnerable: The Law, Policy, and Ethics of COVID-19, edited by Colleen Flood et al., Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, July 14, 2020.
Y.Y. Brandon Chen, “Migrant Health in a Time of Pandemic: Fallacies of Us-Versus-Them,” in Vulnerable: The Law, Policy, and Ethics of COVID-19, edited by Colleen Flood et al., Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, July 14, 2020.
Tess Sheldon and Ravi Malhotra, “Not All in This Together: Disability Rights and COVID-19,” in Vulnerable: The Law, Policy, and Ethics of COVID-19, edited by Colleen Flood et al., Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, July 14, 2020.
Peter West-Oram, “Solidarity is for Other People: Identifying Derelictions of Solidarity in Responses to COVID-19,” Journal of Medical Ethics, July 9, 2020.
Lawrence O. Gostin, Roojin Habibi, and Benjamin Mason Meier, “Has Global Health Law Risen to Meet the COVID-19 Challenge? Revisiting the International Health Regulations to Prepare for Future Threats,” The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, July 6, 2020.
Sridhar Venkatapuram, “Human Capabilities and Pandemics,” Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, June 30, 2020.
Sara Kolmes, “Employment-Based, For-Profit Health Care in a Pandemic,” Hastings Center Report, June 29, 2020.
Carol Levine, “Vulnerable Children in a Dual Epidemic,” Hastings Center Report, June 29, 2020.
Mercer Gary and Nancy Berlinger, “Interdependent Citizens: The Ethics of Care in Pandemic Recovery,” Hastings Center Report, June 29, 2020.
Anita Ho and Iulia Dascalu, “Global Disparity and Solidarity in a Pandemic,” Hastings Center Report, June 29, 2020.
Aimi Nadia Mohd Yusof et al., “Sharing Information on COVID-19: The Ethical Challenges in the Malaysian Setting,” Asian Bioethics Review, June 25, 2020.
Jordan Pascoe and Mitch Stripling, “Surging Solidarity: Reorienting Ethics for Pandemics,” Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, June 17, 2020.
Natalia Shok and Nadezhda Beliakova, “How Soviet Legacies Shape Russia’s Response to the Pandemic: Ethical Consequences of a Culture of Non-Disclosure,” Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, June 17, 2020.
Nathan Jun and Mark Lance, “Anarchist Responses to a Pandemic: The COVID-19 Crisis as a Case Study in Mutual Aid,” Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, June 17, 2020.
Daniel S. Goldberg, “Structural Stigma, Legal Epidemiology, and COVID-19: The Ethical Imperative to Act Upstream,” Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, June 17, 2020.
Ryan H. Nelson and Leslie P. Francis, “Intellectual Disability and Justice in a Pandemic,” Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, June 17, 2020.
Lauren Lyons, “Incarceration, COVID-19, and Emergency Release: Reimagining How and When to Punish,” Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, June 17, 2020.
Sean A. Valles, “The Predictable Inequities of COVID-19 in the US: Fundamental Causes and Broken Institutions,” Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, June 17, 2020.
Michael Da Silva, “COVID-19 and Health-Related Authority Allocation Puzzles,” Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, June 8, 2020.
Zubaida Haque, Sophie Harman, and Clare Wenham, “If We Do Not Address Structural Racism, Then More Black and Minority Ethnic Lives Will be Lost,” The BMJ Opinion, June 8, 2020.
Victor Larcher and Joe Brierley, “Children of COVID-19: Pawns, Pathfinders or Partners?” Journal of Medical Ethics, June 5, 2020.
Marisa K. Dowling and Robin L. Kelly, “Policy Solutions for Reversing the Color-blind Public Health Response to COVID-19 in the US,” JAMA, June 4, 2020.
Jennifer Prah Ruger, “Positive Public Health Ethics: Toward Flourishing and Resilient Communities and Individuals,” The American Journal of Bioethics, June 2, 2020.
Ruqaiijah Yearby and Seema Mohapatra, “Law, Structural Racism, and the COVID-19 Pandemic,” Journal of Law and the Biosciences, May 30, 2020.
Dainius Pūras et al., “The Right to Health Must Guide Responses to COVID-19,” The Lancet, May 29, 2020.
Neil Levy and Julian Savulescu, “Epistemic Responsibility in the Face of a Pandemic,” Journal of Law and the Biosciences, May 28, 2020.
Tia Powell and Elizabeth Chuang, “COVID in NYC: What We Could Do Better,” The American Journal of Bioethics, May 28, 2020.
Julia Lynch, “Health Equity, Social Policy, and Promoting Recovery from COVID-19,” Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, May 28, 2020.
Nicole Huberfeld, Sarah H. Gordon, and David K. Jones, “Federalism Complicates the Response to the COVID-19 Health and Economic Crisis: What Can be Done?” Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law, May 28, 2020.
Zinzi D. Bailey and J. Robin Moon, “Racism and the Political Economy of COVID-19: Will We Continue to Resurrect the Past?” Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, May 28, 2020.
Philip M. Alberti, Paula M. Lantz, and Consuelo H. Wilkins, “Equitable Pandemic Preparedness and Rapid Response: Lessons from COVID-19 for Pandemic Health Equity,” Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, May 28, 2020.
Harold A. Pollack, “Disaster Preparedness and Social Justice in a Public Health Emergency,” Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, May 28, 2020.
Zoe Fritz et al., “Ethical Road Map Through the COVID-19 Pandemic,” BMJ, May 21, 2020.
Elizabeth Chloe Romanis, Jordan Parsons, and Nathan Hodson, “COVID-19 and Reproductive Justice in Great Britain and the United States: Ensuring Access to Abortion Care during a Global Pandemic,” Journal of Law and the Biosciences, May 18, 2020.
Lawrence O. Gostin, Eric A. Friedman, and Sarah A. Wetter, “Responding to COVID-19: How to Navigate a Public Health Emergency Legally and Ethically, Hastings Center Report (March-April 2020).
Alicia Ely Yamin and Roojin Habibi, “Human Rights and Coronavirus: What’s at Stake for Truth, Trust, and Democracy?” Health and Human Rights Journal, March 1, 2020.
Nita Madhav et al., Pandemics: Risks, Impacts, and Mitigation,” in Disease Control Priorities: Improving Health and Reducing Poverty, 3rd Edition, Edited by D.T. Jamison et al. (Washington, DC: The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/The World Bank. 2017).
Lori Uscher-Pines et al, “Planning for an Influenza Pandemic: Social Justice and Disadvantaged Groups,” The Hastings Center Report 37 (2007): 32-39