CanPREP Features

• *NEW PUBLICATION*: Contextualizing Ethics: Ventilators, H1N1 and Marginalized Populations This Healthcare Quarterly paper discusses challenges in using the ethical principle of utility as the sole determinant of resource allocation during an influenza pandemic. Furthermore, it discusses the scarce allocation of ventilators and highlights current pandemic issues being faced by Aboriginal Canadians.
• WHO says too early to call end to H1N1 pandemic The panel deliberated for two hours on Tuesday and advised director-general Margaret Chan that while the virus is not circulating widely in many parts of the world, there's new transmission in West Africa and it's still unclear how the virus will spread when the southern hemisphere enters its winter months.
• H1N1 Vaccine Loan "If you really want to hold a mirror up to our nation, you might ask the question why we’re lending and not just giving," Dr. Ross Upshur.
• CanPREP Symposium: Critical Care Triage for H1N1: A Symposium on Emerging Ethical Issues This symposium, held on Novembre 25, 2009, included a panel discussion to help provide current insight and discussion into the issues facing critical care during the progression of H1N1. Panelists also explored the ethical dimensions of critical care triage. Click to access the complete webcast.
• Ethics in Public Health Policy Development and Research for A/H1N1 Influenza CanPREP Collaborator Marc Guerrier, Espace éthique/AP-HP, WHO CC for Bioethics, Paris presents at the World Health Organization Ethics in a Pandemic meeting in Geneva. Click to access the complete presentation slides.
• CanPREP Media Coverage Click to access CanPREP media stories
• WHO-Eleventh Futures Forum on the ethical governance of pandemic influenza preparedness
• Participate in the Ethics During a Pandemic Survey
• WHO Discussion Papers: "Addressing ethical issues in pandemic influenza planning"