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 and JOIN HumEthNet here.
Access HumEthNet’s newsletter, Reflections, here.
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
Ethics and crisis translation: insights from the work of Paul Ricoeur
New Paper by Donal O’Mathuna & Matthew Hunt https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/DPM-01-2019-0006/full/ “Paul Ricoeur was one of the leading philosophers in the twentieth century, writing on a wide variety of topics. From these, his work on translation and on ethics provided suitable ways…
Epistemic Injustice and Humanitarian Action: The case of language and translation
Ryoa Chung is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the Université de Montréal. Matthew Hunt is an Associate Professor and the Director of Research in the School of Physical and Occupational Therapy at McGill University. This article originally appears…
On World Humanitarian Day, let’s reflect on relieving suffering through palliative care.
Follow this link to see how Dr. Lisa Schwartz and the HHE team were the focus of a reflection on World Humanitarian Day by the McMaster Global Health Office.
This team is tackling injustices in global health emergencies & humanitarian crises
Our key concerns were around how inequalities, vulnerabilities and various forms of injustices are often reinforced in these contexts, and how future public health responses could be better attuned to these issues.
“And whom do you let go?” a poster on palliative care in natural disaster settings
Takhliq Amir presented her fourth-year research project poster this week at McMaster University. Congratulations on the great analysis!
How well was HHErg represented at HEI Research Day 2019? Extremely well, thank you.
On March 14, McMaster’s Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact hosted its annual Research Day. The HHErg was well represented this year with two poster presentations (below) and an oral presentation entitled, “Dying in the Margins: Palliative Care,…
Reflection 7(1) is ready for you to read.
Follow the link for online reading of Reflections 7(1).. This edition of the HumEthNet newsletter looks at picturing humanitarian health ethics and two important new studies of perceptions & experiences of people often the subjects of aid campaigns. Thank you…
Can a Television Change Perceptions of Ebola?
Fear and dread of Ebola is shared by patients, healthcare providers and the general public. Some of this fear comes from a lack of understanding of how the disease is experienced combatted. Follow this link to read a commentary by…
Cultural history of the flu: reducing the stigma of Ebola.
Follow the link for a blog post by HHERG’s Sonya de Laat, Postdoctoral Fellow in Humanitarian Health Ethics at McMaster University. How can cultural history of ‘health’ change disease perception & reduce stigma? A brief comparison of Influenza, 1918-1919, and Ebola,…
