The Role of Solidarity in Research in Global Health Emergencies

by Katharine Wright & Julian Sheather Pratt et al. highlight important ways in which solidarity between researchers and communities provides both an ethical underpinning, and an ethical goal, for community engagement in global health research. We suggest that for the same reasons, the aspects of solidarity identified in the target article are essential to an understanding of what constitutes ethical research during a global health emergency, such as the current COVID-19 outbreak. SOLIDARITY AS A BASIS FOR INTERVENTION IN GLOBAL HEALTH EMERGENCIES In its recent report on research in such emergencies, the Nuffield Council on Bioethics categorizes health emergencies as “global” where they are unlikely to be successfully prevented, contained or managed by a single affected country, and external support is required.…
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