As communities and nations work together to confront the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, difficult decisions lie ahead that raise potential challenges, such as rationing limited health care resources, imposing restrictions to individual movement and liberties, and upholding professional duty to treat in the face of personal danger. The following resources aim to promote ethical reflection and decision making during this pandemic.
Feb 2023 - What the COVID-19 Pandemic Teaches Us About Pediatric Iatrogenic Risk
Dec 2021 - Personification of a Duality
Aug 2021 - Ethics Talk Videocast: Fighting Global HIV/AIDS During the COVID Pandemic
Jul 2021 - Ethics Talk Videocast: Should Adolescents Be Able to Consent for COVID-19 Vaccinations?
Jul 2021 - Invisibility of Anti-Asian Racism
Jun 2021 - Ethics Talk Videocast: Could Trusting Science Mean Not Trusting Some FDA Decisions?
Jun 2021 - Ethics Talk Videocast: Building Trustworthiness and Ethical Public Health Practice
May 2021 - Ethics Talk Videocast: Antibiotic Stewardship During COVID
May 2021 - Ethics Talk Videocast: Equity and Intellectual Property Protection of COVID-19 Vaccines
May 2021 - Death Has Us in Check
Apr 2021 - Ethics Talk Videocast: Public, Civic and Spiritual Health During COVID
Apr 2021 - Ethics Talk Videocast: Anti-Asian Racism During COVID and Beyond
Apr 2021 - Covid Care in Color
Apr 2021 - Going Up or Down?
Mar 2021 - Ethics Talk Videocast: Health Hazards of Cost Sharing
Mar 2021 - Ethics Talk Videocast: Surviving COVID Without Water and Other Utilities?
Mar 2021 - Cautious Curiosity
Mar 2021 - Buckets Inequitably Filled by Our Shared Histories
Mar 2021 - Water Stewardship, Health Stewardship
Feb 2021 - Ethics Talk Videocast: Equal Justice Under Law and Health Equity
Feb 2021 - Ethics Talk Videocast: Crushing Medical Debt During COVID
Feb 2021 - Voting for Our Health, in Color
Jan 2021 - Ethics Talk Videocast: Unblinding Placebo-Controlled COVID-19 Vaccine Trials
Jan 2021 - Ethics Talk Videocast: COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in the Health Care Workforce
Jan 2021 - Ethics Talk Videocast: Rationing Critical Care During COVID Surge
Dec 2020 - A Hidden Pandemic
Nov 2020 - Ethics Talk Podcast: Environmental Racism and Health Equity
Nov 2020 - Ethics Talk Videocast: Hacking Structural Racism in Health Care
Nov 2020 - Caring to Vote
Oct 2020 - Ethics Talk Videocast: Politics, Policy, and COVID Cartoons
Oct 2020 - Ethics Talk Videocast: COVID Dermatologic Disparities Go More Than Skin Deep
Oct 2020 - Ethics Talk Videocast: Blowing the Whistle on ICE or US Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Oct 2020 - Health of the First Americans
Oct 2020 - Paintings From Spain's COVID-19 Pandemic
Oct 2020 - I Am Not Your Ballot
Sep 2020 - Ethics Talk Videocast: Who Are You Voting For, Doc? I'm Voting For You
Sep 2020 - Ethics Talk Videocast: Publishing Science and Accelerating Discovery During and After COVID-19
Sep 2020 - Ethics Talk Videocast: COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates and Solutions to Avoid Relying on Them
Sep 2020 - Health of We the People
Aug 2020 - Ethics Talk Videocast: Equitable Allocation of SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine
Aug 2020 - Ethics Talk Videocast: Revitalizing Democracy During COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond, Part 1
Aug 2020 - Ethics Talk Videocast: Revitalizing Democracy During COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond, Part 2
Aug 2020 - Ethics Talk Videocast: Embodied History, Health Justice, and COVID-19, Part 1
Aug 2020 - Ethics Talk Videocast: Embodied History, Health Justice, and COVID-19, Part 2
Aug 2020 - Breath Is Life
Jul 2020 - Ethics Talk Videocast: Pandemic Poetry, Present and Profane
Jul 2020 - Ethics Talk Videocast: Digital Spread of Pandemic Misinformation and Lies, Part 1
Jul 2020 - Ethics Talk Videocast: Digital Spread of Pandemic Misinformation and Lies, Part 2
Jul 2020 - Ethics Talk Videocast: COVID-19 in US Detention Camps
Jul 2020 - Ethics Talk Videocast: Virtue Ethics, Moral Authority, and COVID-19
Jul 2020 - Ethics Talk Videocast: COVID-19 Pandemic and the Global Climate Crisis
Jul 2020 - Ethics Talk Podcast: Museum Learning to Mitigate Loneliness Among Elders
Jun 2020 - Ethics Talk Videocast: Social Isolation, Loneliness, and COVID-19
Jun 2020 - Ethics Talk Videocast: White Coats for Black Lives
Jun 2020 - Ethics Talk Videocast: Plight of Workers in Low Wage Jobs and COVID-19
Jun 2020 - Ethics Talk Videocast: Public Health, Personal Liberties, and COVID-19
Jun 2020 - Ethics Talk Videocast: Polling, Politics, and Health Policy in the COVID-19 Era
Jun 2020 - Ethics Talk Videocast: Spread of Anti-Asian Racism and Xenophobia During COVID-19 Pandemic
Jun 2020 - Ethics Talk Videocast: Antiracism, Health Equity, and a Post-COVID Future
Jun 2020 - Ethics Talk Podcast: Othering and Belonging in COVID-19
May 2020 - Ethics Talk Videocast: Vaccine Ethics and the Novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2)
May 2020 - Ethics Talk Videocast: Immunity Status, Social Privilege, and the Novel Coronavirus
May 2020 - Ethics Talk Videocast: Caring for Homeless People During COVID-19 Pandemic
May 2020 - Ethics Talk Videocast: Advance Care Planning and End-of-life Care in the COVID-19 Era
May 2020 - Salvation in a Time of Plague
Apr 2020 - Ethics Talk Videocast: Caring for Incarcerated Individuals During COVID-19 Pandemic
Apr 2020 - Ethics Talk Podcast: Disability Community Perspectives on COVID-19
Apr 2020 - Ethics Talk Podcast: Health Equity After COVID-19
Apr 2020 - Cohesion in Distancing
Mar 2020 - Ethics Talk Podcast: COVID-19 Pandemic Response
Mar 2020 - Oscaring Parasite
Jan 2020 - Culture, Context and Epidemic Containment
Jan 2020 - How Should Clinicians Respond to International Public Health Emergencies?
Jan 2020 - How Should the WHO Guide Access and Benefit Sharing During Infectious Disease Outbreaks?
Jan 2020 - What Should Health Science Journalists Do in Epidemic Responses?
Jan 2020 - Making Emergency Use of Experimental Vaccine Safer
Jan 2020 - When Are Vaccine Mandates Appropriate?
May 2019 - Ethics Talk Podcast: When and How Should ECMO Be Initiated and Removed?
Sep 2017 - Compassionate Release Policy Reform: Physician as Advocates for Human Dignity
Sep 2017 - Hydrochlorothiazide
Mar 2015 - Ethics Talk Podcast: Exempting Vaccinations - An Interview with Dr. Richard Pan, Special Podcast
Dec 2014 - Telemedicine's Challenges for the Medical Profession
Sep 2010 - Natural Disasters, Quarantine, and Public Health Emergencies
Sep 2010 - Conducting Clinical Research during Disasters
Sep 2010 - The Patient-Physician Relationship in Quarantine
Apr 2006 - Ethical Questions Posed by Emerging Epidemics
Apr 2006 - Is Mandatory Vaccination Legal in Time of Epidemic?
Apr 2006 - Allocating Scarce Resources in a Pandemic: Ethical and Public Policy Dimensions
Apr 2006 - Changing the Rules in Times of Crisis: Do Desperate Times Allow Desperate Measures?
Apr 2006 - "I'm Sorry but You Can't Leave": Patients, Physicians, and Quarantine, Commentary 1
Apr 2006 - "I'm Sorry but You Can't Leave": Patients, Physicians, and Quarantine, Commentary 2
May 2004 - Ethical Issues in Emergency Preparedness and Response for Health Professionals
May 2004 - Disaster Triage
May 2004 - Good Samaritans and Public Perils: Our Duties to Doctors