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Vaccine policies and challenge trials: the ethics of relative risk in public health

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Uehiro Oxford Institute
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In this St Cross Special Ethics Seminar, Dr Sarah Chan outlines some risks arising from the deliberate infection of human participants to infectious agents for research purposes
In this St Cross Special Ethics Seminar, Dr Sarah Chan explores three key areas of risk in ‘challenge trials’ – the deliberate infection of human participants to infectious agents as a tool for vaccine development and improving our knowledge of disease biology. Dr Chan explores a) whether some forms of challenge trials cannot be ethically justified; b) why stratifying populations for vaccine allocation by risk profile can result in unjust risk distribution; and c) how comparing these cases and the evaluation of relative risk reveals flaws in approach to pandemic public health.

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Uehiro Oxford Institute
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Sarah Chan
Keywords
covid vaccine
ethics; resource allocation; vaccination; covid; immunity
Epidemiology
Department: Uehiro Oxford Institute
Date Added: 24/11/2021
Duration: 00:53:14

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