Pandemic Perspectives 2020 // A John F. Anderson Memorial Lecture
THE SCIENCE AND ETHICS OF DEVELOPING AND ALLOCATING COVID-19 VACCINES
William Petri MD PhD, Wade Hampton Frost Professor of Medicine and
Vice Chair for Research, Department of Medicine, UVA
James F. Childress PhD, University Professor Emeritus and
Hollingsworth Professor of Ethics Emeritus, UVA
Marcia Day Childress PhD, moderator
Hopes for controlling the Covid-19 pandemic and restoring socioeconomic activities rest in part on the prospect of a vaccine for SARS-CoV-2. If one or more vaccines now in development and testing prove safe and effective in coming months, they still will be too scarce to vaccinate everyone in the U.S. immediately, and so must be rationed. This Medical Center Hour explores the scientific promise and challenges of fast-track vaccine development and ethical debates about equitable vaccine allocation, with particular attention to the report, Framework for Equitable Allocation of Covid-19 Vaccine, issued 2 October 2020 by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
Part of Medical Center Hour's Pandemic Perspectives 2020 mini-series, UVA
Suggested resources:
1. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Framework for Equitable Allocation of COVID-19 Vaccine. Washington DC: The National Academies Press, 2 Oct 2020: [ Ссылка ] (download free PDF)
2. Bloom BR, Nowak GJ, Orenstein W. “When will we have a vaccine?”—understanding questions and answers about COVID-19 vaccination. New England Journal of Medicine. 2020; 8 Sept. doi: 10.1056/NEJMp2025331: [ Ссылка ]
3. World Health Organization (WHO). WHO SAGE Values Framework for the Allocation and Prioritization of COVID-19 Vaccination. Geneva, Switzerland: WHO, 2020: [ Ссылка ] Allocation_and_prioritization-2020.1-eng.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y#:~:text=The%20Framework%20proposes%20six%252
4. Petri WA. How, and when, will we know that a COVID-19 vaccine is safe and effective? The Conversation. Reprinted online in UVA Today, 23 Sept 2020: [ Ссылка ]
William A. Petri MD PhD Wade Hampton Frost Professor of Medicine and Vice Chair for Research of the Department of Medicine, and Professor of Medicine, Microbiology, Immunology and Cancer Biology, and Pathology, Medicine: Infectious Diseases and International Health, Medicine: Infectious Diseases and International Health. He maintains an active research program investigating immune mechanisms of defense against enteric (diarrheal) infections and, now, Covid-19, is a pioneer in the study of enteric infections and their consequences for children’s health, and a world leader in amebiasis research.
James F. Childress PhD is a graduate of Guilford College and Yale University. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia, where he was formerly University Professor, the John Allen Hollingsworth Professor of Ethics, and founding director of the Institute for Practical Ethics and Public Life. He received UVA’s highest honor, the Thomas Jefferson Award, in 2002. He continues to be a core faculty member of the Center for Health Humanities and Ethics in the School of Medicine. Prof. Childress is author of numerous articles and several books in biomedical ethics and other areas of ethics, including Principles of Biomedical Ethics (with Tom L. Beauchamp), the 8th edition/40th anniversary edition of which appeared in 2019 (and there are a dozen translations into other languages). His most recent book is Public Bioethics: Principles and Problems (2020). Prof. Childress has been actively involved in several national committees examining bioethics and public policy. Most recently, he served on the committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to develop a Framework for Equitable Allocation of COVID-19 Vaccine (report released 2 Oct 2020).
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