{"id":2714,"date":"2022-01-18T11:49:27","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T16:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ceid\/?page_id=2714"},"modified":"2023-08-30T17:15:42","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T21:15:42","slug":"ethics-and-emerging-infectious-diseases-response","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ceid\/research\/ethics-and-emerging-infectious-diseases-response\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethics and Emerging Infectious Diseases Response"},"content":{"rendered":"

The rising number of emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) in recent years and the current global pandemic have not only brought to light the continued challenges in clinical care of patients during the emergence of new pathogens, but also challenges to human protection and distributive justice both nationally and on a global scale. Research and care of highly communicable and novel pathogens, particularly in biocontainment settings are fraught by ethical dilemmas, which often end up having to be resolved ad hoc during crisis, rather than through principled evaluation along an accepted framework.<\/span><\/p>\n

CEID\u2019s multidisciplinary faculty group and partners aim to develop practical and capacity-based approaches to applying ethical principles and guidelines to the challenges of emerging infectious outbreaks. Our hope is to advance the ethical frameworks that govern healthcare infrastructure, distributive justice, social and public policy.<\/span><\/p>\n

Our Current Work In This Space:<\/h2>\n

Special Pathogens Healthcare and Research Ethics (SPHeRE) Working Group<\/h3>
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This working group supports CEID\u2019s mission of addressing essential ethical dilemmas that arise from infectious diseases containment scenarios, as they present competing clinical and research obligations. This multidisciplinary team includes faculty from the BU Center for Health Law, Ethics & Human Rights and our partners at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and Global Health Security Center (with the largest biocontainment and quarantine facility in the country), University of Texas Southwestern, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Our team provides expertise in operating biocontainment care centers in resource-rich and resource-limited settings, participating in outbreak response, and evaluating legal and ethical aspects of public health policy. The team is working on a white paper that applies existing clinical, public health, and research frameworks to explore the ethical dimensions of biocontainment care. The white paper will also identify real-life ethical scenarios in biocontainment care to understand common challenges and solutions of biocontainment care and outbreak response.
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Faculty & Collaborators<\/strong><\/p>\n