Monday, November 13, 11am-12:30pm, Thompson Library [Rm. 165], 1858 Neil Ave.

On May 5, the World Health Organization announced that COVID is no longer a global public health emergency. About a week later, the Biden administration allowed the national emergency and public health emergency declarations related to the pandemic to expire. Ending these emergency declarations has had wide-ranging ramifications for public health as well as individual access to social goods, such as housing and workplace accommodation. This panel will discuss the ethical implications of ending emergency declarations: How should governmental bodies make these decisions? How do we end emergency declarations equitably and what is owed to those who remain vulnerable or who lose access to care?

The colloquium is part of the 2023-24 COMPAS Program COMPAS Directions: A Decade of Ethical Exploration. The event is open to the public with no registration required.

Panelists

Lindsay Wiley (UCLA)

Doron Dorfman (Seton Hall University)

Moderator: Ruqaiijah Yearby (OSU)

Hosted by OSU Center for Ethics and Human Values [CEHV].