Research Ethics in Epidemics and Pandemics: A Casebook

Chapter 1: Introduction: Research Ethics and Health Policy in Epidemics and Pandemics.- Chapter 2: Setting Research Priorities.- Chapter 3: Research Quality and Dissemination.- Chapter 4: Boundaries Between Research, Surveillance and Monitored Emergency Use.- Chapter 5: Adapting and adaptive research. Chapter 6: Ethics Review Challenges.- Chapter 7: Ethical Issues Associated with Managing and Sharing Individual-Level Health Data During a Public Health Emergency.- Chapter 8: Dimensions of Vulnerability.- Chapter 9: Participant Recruitment, Consent and Post-Trial Access to Interventions.- Chapter 10: Afterword.

Susan Bull BSc, LLB, MA, PhD is an Associate Professor in Bioethics at the Ethox Centre, University of Oxford, United Kingdom and an Associate Professor of Medical Ethics, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland New Zealand. Her research interests centre on ethical dimensions of health and global health with a thematic focus on the exercise of epistemic power. Her conceptual and empirical research has addressed global health data sharing, consent to research, ethical review of research, controlled human infection (challenge) studies, and infectious disease outbreaks, epidemics and pandemics. Susan leads Epidemic Ethics, a global community of bioethicists and stakeholders involved in public health and research responses to public health emergencies. Susan has served in multiple advisory roles including as a member of the WHO Working Group for Guidance on Human Challenge Studies in COVID-19 and lead writer of WHO Guidance on the Ethical Conduct of Controlled HumanInfection Studies. Susan has chaired and served on research ethics committees in the UK and New Zealand, and provided training to research ethics committees in Europe, Asia, Africa and New Zealand. In collaboration with colleagues at the University of Oxford, The Global Health Network, World Health Organization, Nuffield Council on Bioethics, and Multi-Regional Clinical Trials Center at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard, Susan developed a suite of free online research ethics training courses taken by over 450,000 learners.

Michael Parker is Professor of Bioethics and Director of the Ethox Centre at the University of Oxford. Ethox is a multidisciplinary bioethics research centre with a major programme of research on global health bioethics. In 2012, together with colleagues in Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, Thailand and Vietnam, Michael established the Global Health Bioethics Network (GHBN). Since that time, GHBN has expanded to include colleagues in a numberof other countries