Professor Jonathan Wolff University of Oxford: 'An Ethical Framework for Global Vaccine Allocation'

The Centre for Political Thought will host Professor Jonathan Wolff on Wednesday 4 November, 1230-1430, to talk about his work as part of a high profile interdisciplinary team that has developed An Ethical Framework for Global Vaccine Allocation.

The proposals in this paper, and in the accompanying brief for the WHO - Fair Allocation Mechanisms for COVID-19 Vaccines Through the COVAX Facility - articulate the 'Fair Priority Model' for global vaccine allocation.

Jonathan Wolff is Alfred Landecker Professor of Values and Public Policy at Wolfson College, Oxford. His work concerns equality, disadvantage, revitalising democracy and civil society, social justice and poverty, and many applied topics such as public safety, liability, gambling, and the regulation of recreational drugs (many of which are discussed in his book Ethics and Public Policy: A Philosophical Enquiry, 2011, and The Human Right to Health, 2012). Earlier works include Disadvantage (OUP 2007), with Avner de-Shalit; An Introduction to Political Philosophy (OUP, 1996, third edition 2016); Why Read Marx Today? (OUP 2002); and Robert Nozick (Polity 1991). He has had a long-standing interest in health and health promotion, including questions of justice in health care resource allocation, the social determinants of health, and incentives and health behaviour. He has been a member of the Nuffield Council of Bioethics, the Academy of Medical Science working party on Drug Futures, the Gambling Review Body, the Homicide Review Group, an external member of the Board of Science of the British Medical Association, and a Trustee of GambleAware. He writes a regular column on higher education for The Guardian.

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