COVID-19 Vaccination: Ethics in Practice in a Time of Pandemic in the UK and Ireland
Speakers Include:
Professor David Archard, Chair, Nuffield Council on Bioethics, UK and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Queen’s University Belfast
Ms Patricia Donnelly, Head, COVID-19 Vaccination Programme, Northern Ireland
Dr Siobhan Ní Bhriain, Consultant Psychiatrist of Old Age, HSE Integrated Care Lead and Member, National Public Health Emergency Team for COVID-19 (NPHET), Ireland
This webinar is part of a programme of activities for the project, A Public Health Ethics and Law Research Network (PHELN) in the UK and Ireland (ES/V009222/1), which is funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council and the Irish Research Council.
For further details about the PHELN project, see:
https://www.law.ed.ac.uk/research/research-projects/pheln
00:07 - Welcome
00:35 - Background to PHELN Project with Anne-Maree Farrell and Mary Donnelly
03:40 - Introduction to Event
06:06 Question 1 - What Values have, or should have, informed the COVID-19 vaccination programme
22:57 - Question 2 - How do we go about determining priority groups for vaccinations? How should we have gone about it?
39:58 - Question 3 - What are some of the practical issues faced when implementing this type of vaccination programme?