Lee-Anne Pascoe

Bioethicist, trail junkie, book nerd, avid traveller & music lover. Passionate about public health ethics, outbreak response & global health.

[Southeast Asia Bioethics Network @SEA_Bioethics]

We are delighted to announce the contribution of a number of our Steering Committee members in the recently published book. Associate Professor Dr. Sharon Kaur and Professor Dr. Cheah Phaik Yeong co-authored a chapter and Dr. Voo Teck Chuan played the role as co-author and editor

[Chungong Stella @ChungongStella]

How can countries better prepare to stay safe & surge when an emergency hits? Join our next @WHO EPI-WIN Webinar  on “Health Systems for Health Security: An Integrated Solution for Robust Emergency Management”, 16th May at 13:00–14.00 CEST (Geneva time).
https://t.co/6bRK9vRn9K

[Asian Bioethics Review @AsianBioethics]

📢 Looking for new ➡️ Editorial Board Members

by 15 June 2024 ➡️ https://t.co/p9RDD2PxKR

The journal is particularly committed to promoting opportunities for early career development, and to equity, diversity and inclusion in publishing.

[Centre for Biomedical Ethics | NUS Medicine @NUS_CBmE]

#Decolonisation of #Bioethics: Lessons for Southeast Asia

23 May 2024, Zoom
BKK/JKT 2pm, KL/MNL 3pm

@PublicEthics @Atuire @MarkWTan @TCVOO5 @SereneAKOng

@SEA_Bioethics ➡️ https://t.co/ElW801dexG .

[Centre for Biomedical Ethics | NUS Medicine @NUS_CBmE]

HIRING ➡️ 2 Research Fellows (PostDoc) on the https://t.co/lPLGoCFa9a project

RESEARCH ➡️ clinical & research ethics, as well as evaluation of educational programmes and ethical guidelines

POSITION ➡️ 2 year, Singapore

INFO ➡️ https://t.co/aJQpZGG23s .

[Centre for Biomedical Ethics | NUS Medicine @NUS_CBmE]

HIRING ➡️ Research Associate (master’s) for https://t.co/lPLGoCFa9a

RESEARCH ➡️ may include Health Information Act, patients with renal failure, end-of-life, risk in complex treatment decision-making

POSITION ➡️ 1 year (renewable), Singapore

INFO ➡️ https://t.co/900SRInmFc .

[Epidemics Ethics @EpidemicsEthics]

Across 3 years, Epidemic Ethics has been hosting international webinars on epidemic and pandemic prevention, preparedness, response and recovery. You can access all our recordings here:
https://t.co/JH8BvCqi0K
@info_TGHN @Ethox_Centre @Oxford_NDPH

[Alex John London @AlexJohnLondon]

Today the World Health Organization (WHO) expert group on #ethics and #governance of #AI for health has released a new guidance document “Guidance on Large Multi-Modal Models”. Honored to be a member of this group. https://t.co/Ya5wzoB03a #LLMs #AIEthics #Bioethics

[Epidemics Ethics @EpidemicsEthics]

New open access publication for this week.

Alberto Giubilini's 'Freedom, diseases, and public health restrictions.' 2023

A conceptual analysis of the relationship between different types of freedom, public health policies, viruses and diseases.

https://t.co/4yePE3pURN

[António Guterres @antonioguterres]

I've just invoked Art.99 of the UN Charter - for the 1st time in my tenure as Secretary-General.

Facing a severe risk of collapse of the humanitarian system in Gaza, I urge the Council to help avert a humanitarian catastrophe & appeal for a humanitarian ceasefire to be declared.

[Epidemics Ethics @EpidemicsEthics]

**NEW WEBINAR ALERT**

Join us on Monday 11 Dec, 1.00-2.00PM (London time) for a new webinar on the African Region's response to COVID-19.

Register here: https://t.co/ISFx89zvi1

@Marliski1 @AkSafs @info_TGHN @Ethox_Centre @TropMedOxford @Oxford_NDPH @EthicsLab_UCT

[CBmE SHAPES @SHAPES_NUS]

📢 Out Now:

@NUS_CBmE #ResearchEthics Bulletin
Issue 24, November 2023

➡️ https://t.co/BhUFIgYY92 ⬅️

[World Health Organization (WHO) @WHO]

Evacuation orders by Israel to hospitals in northern Gaza are a death sentence for the sick and injured

As the @UN's agency responsible for public health, the World Health Organization (WHO) strongly condemns Israel's repeated orders for the evacuation of 22 hospitals treating more than 2000 inpatients in northern Gaza. The forced evacuation of patients and health workers will further worsen the current humanitarian and public health catastrophe.

The lives of many critically ill and fragile patients hang in the balance: those in intensive care or who rely on life support; patients undergoing hemodialysis; newborns in incubators; women with complications of pregnancy, and others all face imminent deterioration of their condition or death if they are forced to move and are cut off from life-saving medical attention while being evacuated.

Health facilities in northern Gaza continue to receive an influx of injured patients and are struggling to operate beyond maximum capacity. Some patients are being treated in corridors and outdoors in surrounding streets due to a lack of hospital beds.

Forcing more than 2000 patients to relocate to southern Gaza, where health facilities are already running at maximum capacity and unable to absorb a dramatic rise in the number patients, could be tantamount to a death sentence.

Hospital directors and health workers are now facing an agonizing choice: abandon critically ill patients amid a bombing campaign, put their own lives at risk while remaining on site to treat patients, or endanger their patients’ lives while attempting to transport them to facilities that have no capacity to receive them.

Overwhelmingly, caregivers have chosen to stay behind and honor their oaths as health professionals to “do no harm,” rather than risk moving their critically ill patients during evacuations. Health workers should never have to make such impossible choices.

Additionally, tens of thousands of displaced people in northern Gaza are seeking refuge in open spaces in or around hospitals, treating them as havens from violence as well as to protect the facilities from potential attacks. Their lives, too, are at risk when health facilities are bombed.

There are verified reports of deaths of health care workers and destruction of health facilities, which denies civilians the basic human right of life-saving health care and is prohibited under International Humanitarian Law.

WHO calls for Israel to immediately reverse evacuation orders to hospitals in northern Gaza, and calls for the protection of health facilities, health workers, patients, and civilians.

WHO also reiterates its calls for the immediate and safe delivery of medical supplies, fuel, clean water, food, and other humanitarian aid into Gaza through the Rafah crossing, where life-saving assistance, including WHO health supplies that arrived earlier today, is currently awaiting entry.

[Valerie Luyckx @valerie_luyckx]

DIALYSIS PATIENTS IN SUDAN ARE DYING DAILY, ONE BY ONE, BECAUSE THERE ARE NO DIALYSIS SUPPLIES

patients have been dialyzing once a week for months

We have begged for donations, wrote in Lancet - progress far far too slow.

@ISNkidneycare @ERAkidney @ASNKidney @AfricanAFRAN

[Epidemics Ethics @EpidemicsEthics]

Here's another publication which may be of interest to EE network members. 'Responding to the global mpox outbreak: ethics issues and considerations: a policy brief, 19 July 2023.' Read it here: https://t.co/aqu2R7nD1I

[Nuffield Council on Bioethics (NCOB) @Nuffbioethics]

📢Call for experts!

@WHO is seeking experts to serve as members of the Technical Advisory Group on Embedding #Ethics in #Health & #ClimateChange Policy.

🔗Find out more & apply: https://t.co/3a3vlJQjAx
🗓️Deadline: midnight, 8 Sep 2023

[Sridhar Venkatapuram MSc MPhil PhD MFPH(Hon) FRSA @sridhartweet]

15+ years ago, two people had foresight to start new academic journal called Public Health Ethics. They also helped birth a new field and careers.

this piece on journal's future agenda is 🔥🔥

🙏 @MarcelFVerweij @PublicEthics Lynette Reid ✊

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https://t.co/sCVxuP7VFf

[Ethox Centre @Ethox_Centre]

📢The next deadline for the Caroline Miles Visiting Scholarship is 23 October. The Scholarship allows early career researchers to spend 1 month at Ethox working on a research project and engaging with Ethox colleagues https://t.co/XCkgcFzYY8

[Rachel Gur-Arie @rachelgurarie]

“Research needs to be for the people and by the people, not just on the people” —fabulous keynote by @Mathur_Roli at #OHGB @GblBioethics

[Epidemics Ethics @EpidemicsEthics]

Epidemic Ethics colleagues @HalinaSuwalows and Voo Teck Chuan have just published a fascinating new commentary on the ethics of funeral care in the context of public health emergencies, incl. pandemics. Read it here: https://t.co/Y2Dx8qxqmr
@Ethox_Centre @info_TGHN @Oxford_NDPH