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
Learn more about the Humanitarian health Ethics Network, or HumEthNet here.
This is also where you can join HumEthNet and access Reflections, the Network’s newsletter.
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.
News and Events
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Recent Blog Posts
What ethical issues arise in outbreaks and pandemics?
Check out this World Health Organization site containing some valuable resources and points of reflection on ethical issues arising during public health outbreaks and pandemics. Consider exploring some of the questions coming out of that site through Case Studies or…
Moral Experiences of Palliative Care: Poster and Graphic
As presented by Matthew Hunt at the 10th World Research Congress of the European Association of Palliative Care (EAPC) 24-26 May 2018 in Bern, Switzerland. Download the PDF version.
Priceless: the value of building an international collaborative team
As presented by Olive Wahoush at the 1st World Congress on Migration, Ethnicity, Race and Health (MERH), 17-19 May 2018 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Downland the PDF version.
Palliative care for refugees: Jordan case study
As presented by Lisa Schwartz at the 1st World Congress on Migration, Ethnicity, Race and Health (MERH), 17-19 May 2018 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Download the PDF version.
Becoming an anthropologist in post-Ebola Giunea
Follow this link to the blog authored by Sekou Kouyate on the opportunities and challenges of becoming an anthropologist and a qualitative researcher in post-Ebola Guinea. Kouyate is the research assistant and coordinator for HHERG’s two R2HC funded studies in…
Just launched: Ethics and the Closure of Humanitarian Healthcare Projects
Though ethicists have examined the ethics of humanitarian priority-setting–including around the initiation of humanitarian projects–to our knowledge, none have undertaken a focused examination of the ethics of closing humanitarian projects.
Spring into REFLECTIONS: latest edition
Reflections, Vol. 6 No. 1, Spring 2018:
Theme: Moral dimensions of paediatric healthcare in humanitarian crises
Film Review: Bending the Arc
The film shows archival footage of Farmer, Jim Yong Kim and others testifying before global health experts who make offensive statements implying that poor people in Africa are ignorant and not deserving of quality healthcare. In the film, Farmer argues that “optimism is a moral choice” and that we cannot be satisfied with mediocrity.
Ethical challenges in providing pediatric medical care in humanitarian contexts
There are innumerable ethical challenges and pitfalls … If a family chooses to leave the hospital during the night even though the child will die without medical treatment, there is often nothing the medical team can do.
