Pandemic Means the Whole World: COVID-19 and Global Bioethics: Webinar Event

Journal articles

• Chattu, Vijay Kumar. and Yaya, Sanni. Emerging infectious diseases and outbreaks: implications for women’s reproductive health and rights in resource-poor settings. Reproductive Health 2020 Apr 1; 17(1): 43

• Danielle N. Poole, Danielle N.;  Escudero, Daniel J.;  Gostin, Lawrence, O.;  David Leblang, David;  Talbot, Elizabeth A.  Responding to the COVID-19 pandemic in complex humanitarian crises.  International Journal for Health Equity 2020: 19, 41. 

• Drain, Paul K. and Garrett, Nigel. SARS-CoV-2 pandemic expanding in sub-Saharan Africa: Considerations for COVID-19 in people living with HIV.  EClinicalMedicine.2020: 100342 

• Ekong, Iniobong; Chukwu, Emeka; Chukwu, Martha.  COVID-19 Mobile Positioning Data Contact Tracing and Patient Privacy Regulations: Exploratory Search of Global Response Strategies and the Use of Digital Tools in Nigeria. JMIR Mhealth Uhealth 2020; 8(4): e19139 

• El-Sadr. Wafaa M. and Justman, Jessica. Africa in the Path of Covid-19. New England Journal of Medicine  2020 April 17 

• Gharebaghi, Reza and Heidary, Fatemeh.  COVID-19 and Iran: swimming with hands tied! Swiss Medical Weekly 2020; 150: w20242 

• Hallo, Alejandro; Rojas,Alejandra; Hallo; Carlos. Perspective from Ecuador, the second country with more confirmed cases of coronavirus disease 2019 in South America: a review Cureus 12(3): e7452. 

• Joffé, George. COVID-19 and North Africa. Journal of North African Studies 2020: 1757334 

• Lee, David and Lee, Jaehong. Testing on the move: South Korea’s rapid response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives 2020 May; 5:

• Litewka, Sergio G. and Heitman, Elizabeth. Latin American health systems in times of pandemic

• Developing World Bioethics. 2020 April 20. 

• Louis-Jean, James; Cenat, Kenney; Sanon, Debbie;  Stvil, Ruthonce. Coronavirus (COVID-19) in Haiti: A Call for Action. Journal of Community Health 2020; 45: 437-439

• Ohiaa, Chinenyenwa; Bakareyb, Adeleye S.; Ahmad, Tauseef. COVID-19 and Nigeria: putting the realities in context. International Journal of Infectious Diseases. 2020, 95.

• Otu,  Akaninyene; Ebenso Bassey; Labonte, Ronald; Yaya, Sanni.  Tackling COVID-19: Can the African continent play the long game? Journal of Global Health 2020 June; 10(1): 010339

• Shamasunder, Sriram; Holmes, Seth M.; Goronga, Tinashe; Carrasco, Hector; Katz, Elyse; Raphael Frankfurter, Raphael; Keshavjee, Salmaan. COVID-19 reveals weak health systems by design: why we must re-make global health in this historic moment . Global Public Health. 2020.

• Shuja, Kanwar Hamaz; Aqeel, Muhammad; Jaffar, Abbas; Ahmed, Ammar. COVID-19 Pandemic and impending mental health implications. Psychiatria Danubina 2020; 32(1): 32-35

• Thompson, Derek. What’s Behind South Korea’s COVID-19 Exceptionalism The Atlantic 2020 May 6 

News articles

• Bermudez, Jorge and Prabhala, Achal. With Patents on Coronavirus Medicines, International Drug Companies Will Decide Whether Brazilians Live or Die. The Intercept 2020 May 7.

• Demby, Samantha. ‘No one’s looking out for us’: Mexico medical workers beg for PPE. Aljazeera.com 2020 April 30.

• Haque, Nicholas. Senegal trials begin for $1 COVID-19 test kit 9. Aljazeera.com. 2020 April 28. (video)

• Unah, Linus and Mussa, Comfort. Masks, bans and questions: Inside Cameroon’s COVID-19 response. Aljazeera.com 2020 April 23.

Web resources

• Africa CDC. Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). African Union

• Bioethics.com COVID-19. Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity. 

• Broadbent, Alex  and Smart, Benjamin T.H. Why a one-size-fits-all approach to Covid-19 could have lethal consequences. London School of Economics. 2020 March 27. (blog)

• Comisión Nacional de Bioética. Información relevante sobre el COVID-19. Gobierno de México (blog)

• Dupraz-Dobias, Paula. COVID-19 compounds a long list of problems in Guatemala. The New Humanitarian. 2020 May 4

• Global Health Justice Partnerships.  Responding to the justice and rights implications of the COVID-19 pandemic. Yale Law School.

• Johannes John-Langba, Johannes and Nasaka John-Langba, Vivian.  COVID-19 responses in Africa: implications for peace, security, and public health. Social Science Research Council.  

• Johns Hopkins University. COVID-19 Dashboard by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University (JHU)

• Koteiche, Rayan.  Syria’s Northwest Is on the Brink of a Coronavirus Disaster. Physicians for Human Rights. 2020 April 2.(blog)

• Ordu, Aloysius Uche. The coming of age of the Africa Centers for Disease Control. Brookings.edu. 2020 April 15.(blog)

• Robinson, Dave; Wilkinson, Olivia; Marshall, Katherine. From Poverty to Power: Religion and COVID-19: Four Lessons from the Ebola experience. Oxfam GB. 2020 April 8. (blog)

• Roser, Max;  Ritchie, Hannah;  Ortiz-Ospina, Esteban; Hasell, Joe. Statistics and Research. Our World in Data. Coronavirus Pandemic (COVID -19). Global Change Data Lab. (information updated daily)

• UNESCO. Webinar Series on Bioethics and Corona responses in the Arab region.

• United Nations. Policy Brief: A Disability-Inclusive Response to COVID-19. May 2020 (report, pdf)

• WHO. Global Health Ethics. Publications. World Health Organization