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

Journal Articles

• Corburn, Jason; Vlahov, David; Mberu, Blessing, et al. Slum Health: Arresting COVID-19 and Improving Well-Being in Urban Informal Settlements. Journal of Urban Health 2020 April 24.

• Friedler, Delilah. Navajo Nation Is Behind Only New York and New Jersey in Rates of COVID-19 Infection. What Happened? Mother Jones 2020 May 5.

• Gibson, Lesley and Rush,David. Novel coronavirus in Cape Town informal settlements: feasibility of using informal dwelling outlines to identify high risk areas for COVID-19 transmission from a social distancing perspective. JMIR Public Health and Surveillance. 2020 April-June; 6(2): e18844

• Gonçalves Júnior, Jucier; Paulinode de Sales, Jair; Moreno Moreira, Marcial;  Rodrigues Pinheiro, Woneska; Kennedy Tavares Lima, Carlos; Leite Rolim Neto, Modesto. A crisis within the crisis: The mental health situation of refugees in the world during the 2019 coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak. Psychiatry Research. 2020 June; 28: 113000

• Kluge, Hans Henri P.; Jakab,  Zsuzsanna ; Bartovic, Jozef; D’Anna, Veronika; Severoni, Santino  Refugee and migrant health in the COVID-19 response. Lancet 2020 April 18; 395: 1237-1239 

• Magaña Lopez, Miriam and Holmes, Seth M. Raids on Immigrant Communities During the Pandemic Threaten the Country’s Public Health.  American Journal of Public Health 23 April 2020.

• Meyer, Jaimie P.; Franco-Paredes, Carlos; Parmar, Parveen;  Yasin, Faiza;  Gartland, Matthew. COVID-19 and the coming epidemic in US immigration detention centres. Lancet 2020 April 15.

• Orcutt, Miriam;  Patel, Parth; Burns, Rachel;  Hiam, Lucinda;  Aldridge, Rob;  Devakumar, Delan; Kumar, Bernadette;  Spiegel,  Paul;  Abubakarb, Ibrahim. Global call to action for inclusion of migrants and refugees in the COVID-19 response. Lancet 2020 May 9; 395: 1482-1483

• Subbaraman,Nidhi. ‘Distancing is impossible’: refugee camps race to avert coronavirus catastrophe. Nature 24 April 2020; 581: 18

• Torero, Maximo.  Without food, there can be no exit from the pandemic. Nature 23 April 2020; 580: 588-589

• Vince, Gaia. The world’s largest refugee camp prepares for covid-19. BMJ 202; 368: m1205

• Wilkinson, Annie. Local response in health emergencies: key considerations for addressing the COVID-19 pandemic in informal urban settlements. Environment and Urbanization. 2020 May 5.

News articles

• Dahir, Abdi Latif. 135 Million Face Starvation. That Could Double. New York Times 

• Estrin, Daniel. Still Locked In Conflict, Israelis And Palestinians Need Each Other To Fight COVID-19. National Public Radio. 

• Fanzo, Jessica. COVID-19 threatens to starve Africa. The continent has some unique strengths in the pandemic, but food insecurity is a special vulnerability. Bloomberg.com 

• Semple, Kirk. Across Globe, Migrant Flow Comes to Halt. New York Times  

• Un News. Food insecurity in West Africa could leave 43 million at risk as coronavirus hits. United Nations

• Valencia, Alexandra. Ecuador indigenous community fears extinction from COVID-19. Reuters

Web resources

• Anthem, Paul. Risk of Hunger Pandemic as COVID-19 set to Almost Double Acute Hunger by End of 2020. 2020 April 16. World Food Programme

• Basok, Tanya and George, Glynis.  Migrant workers face further social isolation and mental health challenges during coronavirus pandemic. The Conversation (blog)

• Berlinger, Nancy.  Hastings Bioethics Forum. Immigrants, health inequities, and social citizenship in COVID-19 response and recovery. The Hastings Center. (blog)

• Center for Strategic and International Studies. COVID-19 and Food Security: What You Need to Know. 2020 April 24 

• Fenton, Elizabeth and Chillag, Kata. Bioethics Forum.We Need International Medical Graduates to Help Fight Covid-19. Immigration Policies Keep Them Away. The Hastings Center. (blog)

• Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Elena. Refugee local responses in the time of COVID-19: preliminary reflections from North Lebanon. Refugeehost.org  (blog)

• ISIM Blog. COVID-19 Impacts on Migration and Displacement. Georgetown University Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service (blog)

• Joja, Iulia and Hamilton, Bob. MIDDLE EAST FOCUS. COVID-19 and Economic Migration. Middle East Institute (podcast)

• Kirisci, Kemal and Erdoğan, M. Murat. Turkey and COVID-19: Don’t forget refugees. Brookings.edu (blog)

• Le Tourneau, François-Michel and Milliken, William. COVID-19, isolated indigenous peoples and the history of the Amazon. The Conversation (blog)

• Migration Policy Institute. Coronavirus (COVID-19) Research and Analysis

• Munn, William. African Americans are contracting and dying from COVID-19 at higher rates. We know why. North Carolina Justice Center

• Reliefweb. Roma in the COVID-19 crisis: An early warning from six EU Member States. United Nations. United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

• Shachar, Ayelet. Borders in the Time of COVID-19. Ethics and International Affairs. Carnegie Council (blog)

• The Telegraph. Thousands queue for food in South Africa amid lockdown (video)

• United Nations. Department of Economic and Social Affairs Indigenous Peoples.  COVID-19 and Indigenous peoples

• World Bank. Food Security and COVID-19. 2020 May 4

• World Food Programme. HungerMap

• World Food Programme. COVID-19 – Potential Impact on the World’s Poorest People. 2020 April 8