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Without the ‘local’ we cannot re-imagine humanitarian health ethics

Blog Series: (Re)Imagining Humanitarian Health Ethics By Isabel Muñoz Beaulieu The future of humanitarian ethics needs to define what is meant by ‘local.’ The call to localized approaches in the humanitarian discourse has quickly expanded when big funders, large humanitarian…
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Palliative Care in Humanitarian Crises: A Video
Erin Lin, an undergraduate student at McMaster University, has been working alongside HHERG members, Lisa Schwartz and Rachel Yantzi, on a video on Palliative Care in Humanitarian Crises. You can check it out below and let us know what you…
(Re)imagining Humanitarian Health Ethics
22/03/2022 What form should bioethics take in the years to come? It’s clear the status quo is not enough. This is true for humanitarian health ethics. Although there are valuable foundations, pathways, ideas to build on – or so we…
Moral injury and COVID-19
By Omar Mahboob BMSc and Elysée Nouvet PhD On April 25, 2020, John Mondello, a recently graduated Emergency Medical Technician stationed in New York City, died by suicide. Mondello was on the front lines of the COVID-19 response as the…
COVID-19 in Ethiopia: Challenges, best practices, and prospects
By Gojjam Limenih Gojjam Limenih, is a senior lecturer and researcher of Public Health, The University of Gondar and an Advisory Council Member, Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Ethiopia (MoSHE). Ethiopia may not yet have witnessed the…
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Collateral impacts of Covid-19, or, The Forgotten
April 17, 2020 By: Nago Humbert (Translation from the French by: Elysée Nouvet) In the midst of this pandemic, as is the norm in humanitarian catastrophes, those suffering from chronic illnesses (diabetes, pulmonary disease, hypertension, kidney failure, mental health, kidney)…
- Online Webinar: Lisa Eckenwiler — An Eco-Structural Approach to Health EthicsUniversity of Minnesota Ethics Grand Rounds Find more information about the event here: https://bioethics.umn.edu/events/eco-structural-approach-health-ethics
- Join the First Session: Study of a Participatory Assessment Tool for Community-Led HumanitarianismRegister here: bit.ly/3b2yvEn The Movement for Community-Led Development (MCLD), a global consortium of 1500+ civil society organizations from around the world, developed through collaborative research a Participatory CLD Assessment Tool to orient dialogue around CLD processes in project design, implementation, and closure. The aim is that program officers, funders, governments, community members, and NGOs can use this tool…
- Kawakeb Webinar: The Ethical Considerations in the Research Conducted During Armed ConflictsRegister Here Dr. Ghaiath is a medical doctor, bioethicist, and assistant professor in medical ethics and law at Trinity College Dublin. He earned a master’s degree and PhD in bioethics from the University of Toronto, Canada, and the University of Birmingham, UK, respectively. He is the main co-author of the Professionalism and Ethics Handbook for Residents,…
- Webinar: COVID-19 Response in Humanitarian SettingsFor more information and registration, check out this link
- New Contribution: Key questions to ask when facing dilemmas during COVID-19 response in humanitarian settings23/03/2022 New contribution by Humanitarian Health Ethics research members Matthew Hunt and Lisa Schwartz in partnership with GHC COVID-19 task team. You can read it now here. Overview of Report Health Clusters and partners are often facing challenges in humanitarian settings. COVID-19 has intensified pressures and worsened resource constraints forcing difficult decisions on how and…