Vulnerability and justice in global health emergency regulation: developing future ethical models (360G-Wellcome-210353_Z_18_Z)

The Award will support the foundation of a network of academics, with the aim of developing proof-of-principle that ethical models and guidelines on global health emergencies (GHEs) can be better attuned to concerns of vulnerability and justice. The network will enable a step-change in the scholarship on vulnerability and justice in GHEs. GHEs, in this context, are defined as crises that affect health, and are (or should be) of international concern (e.g. epidemics and pandemics, health in conflicts or mass migration). Collaborators will explore strategies to increase the ethical robustness of future regulation across challenging events, using futures-studies methods. Ultimately this project will lead to a larger grant application using similar methodology and vision. Key goals: To contribute to conceptual and applied knowledge on the connection between vulnerability and justice in the context of GHEs (defining key concepts, identify gaps) To co-design with knowledge users (policy makers, humanitarian actors), ethical models and strategies for a futures-oriented approach to the regulation of GHEs. To develop scholarship, expertise and collaborations in view of a larger grant application (based on the vision that future GHE regulation and ethics can be better attuned to concerns of vulnerability and justice, using a futures-oriented approach)