DEC 3

Session 1: 14:00 - 15:30 AEDT

Law and constitutional responses to COVID-19

Calvin Ho (University of Hong Kong)

Cheryl Saunders (University of Melbourne)

Session 2: 15:45 - 16:30 AEDT

Submitted abstracts

1. Tamra Lysaght, Owen Shaefer, Teck Chuan Voo, Roy Nathan (National University of Singapore)

Ethical reflection on adapting the Monitored Emergency Use of Unregistered and Investigational Interventions (MEURI) framework to high income countries

2. Diego Silva (University of Sydney), Maxwell Smith

Imposing Risk Ethically During COVID-19

3. Vera Raposo (University of Macau)

Big brother is watching you: wearable devices to detect COVID-19 infections

DEC 4

Session 1: 09:30 - 10:15 AEDT

Submitted abstracts

1. Anna Chiumento (University of Liverpool), Paul Baines, Caroline Redhead, Sara Fovargue, Heather Draper, Lucy Frith

Developing an ethical framework to guide resetting health services during and after Covid-19: findings from a rapid review

2. Rebekah McWhirter (University of Tasmania)

Protecting public health and the right to liberty in a pandemic

3. Deborah Zion (University of Victoria). Bridget Haire

The problem with COVID 19 phase 3 challenge trails: Harm, generalisability and informed consent

Session 2: 10:30 - 12:00 AEDT

Vaccine hesitancy and trials

Maya Goldenberg (University of Guelph)

Seema Shah (Northwestern University)

This free virtual workshop will scrutinise COVID-19 from the perspectives of research ethics, public health ethics, public health law, and policy. Six months or so into the pandemic, we can see where bioethics was able to correctly predict and address certain challenges in the 10-15 years leading up to COVID-19 (e.g., the ethics of just and legitimate isolation), while being unable to foresee other issues (e.g., the ill-effects of promoting pre-peer reviewed science). The successes and failures to imagine the challenges in a pandemic brings into sharp relief the way that knowledge and evidence effects our ability to predict issues and help resolve them during the midst of a pandemic.

AABHL members had hoped to come together around this time in Hobart, Tasmania. Unfortunately, that is not to be. This virtual workshop hopes to at least partly fill that gap by providing an opportunity for learning, discussing, and networking based around the overarching story of 2020: COVID-19. The virtual workshop will run for two half-days (to minimise zoom-fatigue). Each day will feature one plenary session and several parallel paper sessions. Each session will be grouped by theme to allow engagement with the selected papers and broader session themes. We will also encourage networking between attendees, but you must supply your own bad conference coffee (see: coffee fail).