Covid-19 Insights: Analysis from Ethics, Human Rights and Law Perspectives
We – Health, Ethics and Law Institute (HEaL Institute) and Indian Journal of Medical Ethics (IJME) – at the Forum for Medical Ethics Society (FMES) are pleased to bring you critical analytical blog space entitled ‘Covid-19 Insights’. As a collective with long standing commitment to ethics and rights, the goal of bringing these to you is to not let get ethics and human rights relegated amidst the urgency of responding to the pandemic. These blogs and podcast by individuals from different fields and of common people, we believe, would add a layer to the ongoing conversations in different spaces – research, service provision, policies and strategies to respond to the pandemic.
We desire to cater to various constituencies including larger public as well as the government. The idea is to raise critical questions and also provide insights to help shape and continue to improve the quality of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Blogs in this space speak to various aspects of public health emergencies, in general and the Covid-19 pandemic, in particular center-staging ethics, human rights and legal aspects of responding to public health emergencies. Alongside, they also discuss duties, and obligations of various constituencies, both local and global. The ‘Covid-19 Insights’ space also provides select related resources.
We welcome contributions to the blog space ‘Covid-19 Insights’ in different forms including commentaries, brief reports, short stories, experiential narratives from ground zero, poetry, sketches, and cartoons. Amidst the information overload and buzzing social media, we hope to keep these blogs short, and each blog focused on one or two themes at a time. We welcome your submissions reflecting your personal insights into the issue at hand using the lens of ethics and rights. Submissions will be screened by the team of blog editors.
Read and share them in your networks, and post your comments. It is a collaborative platform founded on the principle of ‘co-creating knowledge to develop an inclusive response to the pandemic which affects us all with no barriers of religion, class, gender, caste’.
We also bring to you a wealth of resources at HEaL Institute’s e-Bioethics Repository
Blog editors and curators: Colleagues from HEaL Institute and IJME
Editorial and Technical Team: Shahnawaz Islam, Vijay Sawant
Submission Guidelines for blog authors:
- Blog length: about 600-1000 words with some flexibility.
- Submission will be screened for quality of the content.
- The submission needs to have analysis of any aspects of public health emergency in general or Covid -19 in particular from ethics (justice, public health ethics included), human rights, and legal-regulatory
perspectives. This will be one of the key criteria for screening the submissions. - Submission format and style: Submissions must be sent in a word document with minimum formatting. Font size: 12; Font type: Times New Roman.
- Submission may include hyperlinks to relevant stories, reports, and any other resources.
- Blog Submission email id: [email protected]
Requests for postings materials in e-Covid-19 repository:
- Requests for posting relevant materials on this website are welcome for our consideration. Email id: [email protected]
Forthcoming Webinars
Blog 14 | HEaL Institute & IJME – Covid-19 Insights | July 21, 2020
Refusing to treat due to lack of PPE: Brief insights and analysis | Olinda Timms
The Covid-19 pandemic has once again exposed the many deficiencies in our health system and its lack of preparedness in a health crisis. The unfolding pandemic revealed higher infectivity levels, and unpredictable outcomes of infections that escalated the risk level to ‘unacceptable’…more
Blog 13 | HEaL Institute & IJME – Covid-19 Insights | July 16, 2020
Being at the frontline of COVID 19: Conversations with grassroots health care workers | Contributors
In this blog we bring you highlights of a webinar where health care workers (HCW) working at the grassroots took centre stage by coming on board as panellists. They shared their experiences of working during COVID 19. More than a hundred individuals from different backgrounds and areas of work, from around India and outside, participated in the webinar…more
Blog 12 | HEaL Institute & IJME – Covid-19 Insights | June 18, 2020
Aatmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyaan: Abdication of State Responsibility | Ravi Duggal
The State Response in India to Covid-19 was as per the now classic Modi modus operandi – surgical strike on people without notification. Surprise and awe characterise Modi’s tactic, whether it was announcement of demonetization, introduction of GST, Balakot air strike, Article 370 abrogation and lockdown of Kashmir and now the Covid-19 lockdown…more
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AMA Journal of Ethics Covid-19 Resource Center
Bioethics.net & American Journal of Bioethics
Harvard University Edmond J Safra Center for Ethics Covid-19 Response
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Nuffield Council on Bioethics: Covid-19 Resource Center
Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) Covid-19
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