Epidemic Ethics - Governing global health in pandemics: evolution & lessons learned

Chair: Prof Lawrence O. Gostin, University Professor; Founding O’Neill Chair in Global Health Law; Faculty Director, O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University, Washington D.C., USA; Director, WHO Collaborating Center on National and Global Health Law

Panel: Prof EK Yeoh, Director, Centre for Health Systems and Policy Research, Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Prof Suerie Moon, Co-Director, Global Health Centre; Professor of Practice, Interdisciplinary Programmes and International Relations/Political Science, The Graduate Institute Geneva, Switzerland

Dr Mark Eccleston-Turner, Lecturer in Law, Keele University, Staffordshire, UK

The following questions will form the basis of the seminar’s panel discussion. Seminar attendees are invited to submit questions in advance of the seminar when they register or during the live discussion.
1) Where has global health governance succeeded in the COVID-19 pandemic?
2) Where has it failed?
3) What are the key ethical lessons we’ve learned in how to govern the response to a global pandemic?