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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) - are pleased to bring you critical analytical blog space entitled ‘COVID-19 Insights’. 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 issues at hand while responding to public health emergencies. Alongside, they also with duties, and obligations of various constituencies, both local and global.
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 taking actions towards containing the pandemic. There is immense amount of information available in open access public spaces that responds possibly to meet needs of every other constituency one can think of. These are valuable resources. 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.
The contributions to Covid-19 Insights may come in different forms including poetry, short stories, sketches, and cartoons would come from diverse constituencies. This would also present experiential narratives from ground zero. Amidst the information overload and buzzing social media, we attempt to keep these blogs short, each blog focused on one or two themes at a time.
These blogs and podcast will be accompanied by a selection of papers and other relevant resources from the extant the scholarship in topical/thematic areas of various facets of the current pandemic curated by multidisciplinary group responsible for running Covid-19 Insights.
We desire to cater to various constituencies including larger public on the one hand and the government on the other hand with a set of take-home messages.
Read them, share them in your networks, post your comments, and send us a request if you might wish to contribute to the blog space yourself. It is a collaborative platform founded on the principle of ‘co-creating knowledge is the way to develop an inclusive response to the pandemic which affects us all with no barriers of religion, class, gender, caste’. We welcome your submissions reflecting your personal insights into the issue at hand using the lens of ethics and rights.
We also bring to you a wealth of resources at our HEaL Institute’s e-Bioethics Repository
Blog editors and curators: Name 1 Name 2 Name 3
Editorial and Technical Team: Shahnawaz Islam Vijay Sawant
Blog submission email: [email protected]