Hot Topics in Research Ethics: Adapting the Monitored Emergency Use of Unregistered and Investigational Interventions (MEURI) Framework to the Singapore Context during COVID-19

09:00-10:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada); 9:00-10:00 PM (Malaysia)

Access to unproven interventions outside of research during a pandemic is ethically
controversial because of its potential to increase harm to patients and undermine the
expedient initiation of clinical trials to produce reliable evidence on the safety and
effectiveness of therapeutic candidates. Then again, denying access to an unproven
intervention during an outbreak with high mortality and lack of effective treatment may
conflict with physicians’ duty of care to meet their patients’ best interests. This presentation
examines the application of WHO’s MEURI framework to the ethical provision of unproven
interventions to treat COVID-19 patients in Singapore.

Date: 16 December 2020, 14:00 (Wednesday, 10th week, Michaelmas 2020)
Venue: Zoom meeting
Speakers: Speaker to be announced
Organiser contact email address: mohre@um.edu.my
Part of: MORES Hot Topic Webinar Series
Booking required?: Required
Booking url: https://tinyurl.com/y6hvsqsg
Audience: Advance registration required: After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting
This talk features in the following public collections:
- Talks of Interest to Medical Sciences
- Talks of interest to Oxford Ethics and Humanities
Editor: Kate Goodman