CanPREP Features

• *NEW PUBLICATION*: Physicians' legal duty of care and legal right to refuse to work during a pandemic CMAJ Analysis examining the ethical duty of care and legal implications.
• Canada loans 5 million flu vaccines to Mexico "Given that some nations are making contributions out of their stock, one would ask the question why Canada isn't doing the same," said Dr. Ross Upshur, director of the Joint Centre for Bioethics at the University of Toronto. "I think we've got sufficient resources to make a contribution to others on the basis on generosity, solidarity, altruism."
• H1N1 Vaccine Loan "If you really want to hold a mirror up to our nation, you might ask the question why we’re lending and not just giving," Dr. Ross Upshur.
• CanPREP Symposium: Critical Care Triage for H1N1: A Symposium on Emerging Ethical Issues This symposium, held on Novembre 25, 2009, included a panel discussion to help provide current insight and discussion into the issues facing critical care during the progression of H1N1. Panelists also explored the ethical dimensions of critical care triage. Click to access the complete webcast.
• Ethics in Public Health Policy Development and Research for A/H1N1 Influenza CanPREP Collaborator Marc Guerrier, Espace éthique/AP-HP, WHO CC for Bioethics, Paris presents at the World Health Organization Ethics in a Pandemic meeting in Geneva. Click to access the complete presentation slides.
• CanPREP Media Coverage Click to access CanPREP media stories
• WHO-Eleventh Futures Forum on the ethical governance of pandemic influenza preparedness
• Participate in the Ethics During a Pandemic Survey
• WHO Discussion Papers: "Addressing ethical issues in pandemic influenza planning"