Humanitarian Health Ethics Research Group
About hhe
The humanitarian health ethics (hhe) research group is a multidisciplinary team of researchers and practitioners collaborating together since 2009 with the aim of helping to clarify the ethical issues that are present in humanitarian healthcare practice. Our research benefits humanitarian and military healthcare practitioners, organizational policy makers, aid agencies and recipients of aid.
Research & Publications
Our research contributes to ethical guidance for global humanitarian healthcare interventions by providing evidence and resources for ethical practice in contexts of acute emergency and prolonged development. Learn more about our research projects, publications and presentations here.
Toolbox
Here you can find the Humanitarian Health Ethics Analysis Tool (HHEAT), a collection of case studies that can be used with the HHEAT and additional resources to mitigate, prepare for and manage ethical challenges encountered in contexts of humanitarian health care provision.
HumEthNet & Reflections
HumEthNet is a COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE committed to developing & using research, education, policy, and/or tools to ADDRESS ETHICAL CHALLENGES IN HUMANITRATIAN HEALTHCARE in order to reduce practitioners’ moral distress and improve ethical practice and decision-making AT MULTIPLE LEVELS.
-HumEthNet working statement
Picturing Humanitarian Healthcare
Picturing Humanitarian Healthcare is a forum with an interactive blog for dialogue, debate, exchange, and reflection concerning the ethical opportunities and challenges of producing images (video, photography, installations, other) in and of humanitarian healthcare crises.
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Recent Blog Posts
The Global Migration Crisis in an Age of Moral Austerity: Reflections in Humanitarian Ethics
Commentary by John Pringle.
…To be clear, the solution to the Global Migration Crisis will be neither medical nor charitable. We must not disassociate the crisis from broader injustices that are forcing displacement…
Protected: Ethics and Unmet Promises: Syrian refugees healthcare in Lebanon
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
A word from WADEM: Official statement at the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction 2017
HumEthNet members, Donál O’Mathuna and Lisa Schwartz were major contributors to the statement.
New Fears, Old Problems – Palliative Care, EVD & the DRC (Dr. Pedro Favila Escobio)
New Fears, Old Problems An Appeal for Palliative Care in the DRC Ebola Virus Outbreak Dr. Pedro Favila Escobio, MD (MS Palliative Care) E: p.favila[at]gmail.com As a medical doctor involved in humanitarian response, I (as many of my colleagues…
European Association of Palliative Care spreads the news
Thank you to the European Association for Palliative Care for including our research, including the invitation for participation in our research survey, as part of their new series about palliative care in the context of humanitarian crisis. Access the blog post here. …
Palliative Health Care in Jordan for Syrian Refugees – An HHE Report
The focus of this paper was to examine factors affecting provision and accessibility of palliative care in particular for Syrian refugees.
