Effy Vayena
Professor of #Bioethics @eth_en #Health #Ethics & #Policy Lab/ 🇨🇭/@BKCHarvard Faculty associate/ Visiting faculty @HMSbioethics
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Big Data, Biomedical Research, and Ethics Review: New Challenges for IRBs - The Hastings Center
ABSTRACT The increased use of big data in the medical field has shifted the way in which biomedical research is designed and carried out. The novelty of techniques and methods brought by big data research brings new challenges to institutional...
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Effy Vayena
With support from @snsf_ch @bigdata_dialog we're studying the challenges that big data research poses to #ethics review boards. Our new paper @hastingscenter presents findings from soft-law documents & guidelines aiming to support IRBs in their assessment
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The Danger of Vaccine Nationalism
Countries must deploy a coordinated strategy based on science, not politics.
Coronavirus health passports for UK 'possible in months'
Tech firm Onfido in talks with government about system to help Britons return to work
Effy Vayena
Coronavirus UK: health passports 'possible in months' | Health policy @EvanSelinger take a look at this. Facial recognition + immunity...
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Downloading COVID-19 contact tracing apps is a moral obligation | Journal of Medical Ethics blog
By G. Owen Schaefer and Angela Ballantyne Should you download an app that could notify you if you had been in contact with someone who contracted COVID-19? Such apps are already available in countries such as Israel, Singapore, and Australia, with...
Effy Vayena
Do you have a moral obligation to download #COVID19 contact tracing apps? | Journal of Medical Ethics blog
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Apple, Google ban use of location tracking in contact tracing apps
Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google on Monday said they would ban the use of location tracking in apps that use a new contact tracing system the two are building to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus.
The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics - Volume 48, Number 1_suppl, Mar 01, 2020
Table of contents for The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 48, 1_suppl, Mar 01, 2020
Jeffrey Kahn: The Fundamentals of Immunity Certificates
Johns Hopkins' Jeffrey Kahn discusses some basic questions about COVID-19 immunity certificates, including ethical and legal issues and how effective immunit...
Reflecting on a future ready for digital health
“Machines take me by surprise with great frequency”, wrote digital pioneer Alan Turing
70 years ago. In our first year of publication, the editors of The Lancet Digital
Health have been surprised not only by the innovative work sent to us every day,...
Effy Vayena: Privacy & Contact Tracing Apps
As nations open back up, ETH Zurich's Effy Vayena discusses some possible privacy concerns with contact tracing apps that could be soon be used in Europe to ...
Study Raises Questions About False Negatives From Quick COVID-19 Test
New research suggests the Abbott ID NOW test, which produces results in less than 15 minutes, is the most likely among common tests to reassure people they are not infected when they really are.
Digital tools against COVID-19: Framing the ethical challenges and how to address them
Data collection and processing via digital public health technologies are
being promoted worldwide by governments and private companies as strategic
remedies for mitigating the COVID-19 pandemic and loosening lockdown measures.
However, the ethical...
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Effy Vayena
Digital tools against #COVID19 raise ethical questions. @ugasser @MarcelloIenca @VisualizeEthics J. Scheibner and I have a paper on this
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Could Covid-19 accelerate new social contracts around data?
Data has become a crucial battleground in the war against Coronavirus, as many countries have used sophisticated methods for gathering and analysing data to monitor and manage the pandemic. This could lead to a lasting shift in how data is thought...
Against pandemic research exceptionalism
Crises are no excuse for lowering scientific standards
Effy Vayena & Jeffrey Kahn: Health Data, Privacy, & Surveillance: How Will the Lockdowns End?
How should we think about privacy and government surveillance during the COVID-19 pandemic? Johns Hopkins' Jeffrey Kahn and ETH Zurich's Effy Vayena discuss ...
How Greece Avoided the Worst of the Coronavirus Pandemic
Greece has contained COVID-19 far better than major European economies
Digital contact tracing will fail unless privacy is respected, experts warn
Letter suggests citizens will reject any centralised app launched to prevent coronavirus that harvests superfluous data
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As governments across the world look to plan their way out of the quarantine phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, many serious challenges remain. In the United States, researchers are looking ahead to immunity certificates for those who have built up...
The People Who Risked Death for Immunity
When yellow fever swept through 19th-century New Orleans, immunity became so valuable, people were willing to go to extreme lengths for protection.