Pediatric Bioethics in the Shadow of COVID Symposium
The COVID-19 pandemic raised complicated ethical issues for children and those who care for them. On May 5, 2021, the Children’s Mercy Bioethics Center hosted a symposium to discuss these complex ethical issues. Thought leaders in pediatric bioethics and health policy reflected on the successes, failures and surprises that arose and that likely will continue with the COVID-19 pandemic.
View and download presentations and handouts from the "Pediatric Bioethics in the Shadow of COVID Symposium."
Presentations and handouts:
- Balancing Hope & Fear: COVID-19 Vaccine Access & Hesitancy (PDF)
- Closing the Health and Wealth Gap: Working At the Crossroads of Health and Economic Equity (PDF)
- COVID 19: Update From Pakistan (PDF)
- COVID is Not the Same Everywhere: Costa Rica’s Response to the Pandemic (PDF)
- Pediatric Nursing in the Pandemic: What is Beyond Our Scope of Practice? (PDF)
- The Second Pandemic (PDF)
- Tragic Choices: The Allocation and Distribution of Scarce Resources During a Pandemic (PDF)
- Uncertainties in Education: One Main Concern (PDF)
Speakers
Alyssa Burgart, MD is a pediatric anesthesiologist who is Chair of the Ethics Committee at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford University.
Doug Diekema, MD, MPH is a pediatric ER physician and past chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Bioethics.
Helene Gayle, MD, MPH is a pediatrician who is President of the Chicago Community Trust and Co-Chair of the National Academy of Medicine's working group on justice in the allocation of COVID vaccines.
Laura Specker Sullivan, PhD is a philosopher-bioethicist whose work focuses on disability and cross-cultural understanding.
Ian Wolfe, PhD, RN, CCRN, HEC-C is a Staff Clinical Ethicist and Chair of the Pediatric Ethics Affinity Group of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities.