Kick-off meeting with the PREPARED team.
How to bring ethics into policy-making.
In times of crisis, policy-makers urgently need advice from researchers. Can such advice take ethical values into consideration? PREPARED developed an ethics brief format around fairness, respect, care and honesty and launched a first brief with NATURE coverage in April 2023.
Meet the PREPARED team live at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris. You will be able to join a session where colleagues from around the world discuss how researchers can influence policy and bring an ethics dimension to the table. Questions from the audience will be sought at various points.
The meeting will start with an animation about the ethics brief, which argues that the African Union should receive a permanent seat at the G20.
Prof. Sachin Chaturvedi, Director General RIS, Ministry of External Affairs, India will join live from New Delhi to describe Indian leadership on bringing ethics into policy during their G20 Presidency in 2023.
In the UNESCO Salle XI, the following will contribute from the room.
Katherine Littler, World Health Organization, will explain why overcoming the research evidence-policy gap is essential to promoting world health and that ethical considerations are key to coping with future crises.
Dr. Michael Makanga, Executive Director EDCTP, will explain why the values of fairness, respect, care and honesty are good guiding points by which to assess different policy suggestions.
Leana Snyders, Director of the South African San Council in South Africa will emphasize that focusing on the needs of marginalized populations can reliably give an ethical angle to policy advice.
Dr. Lisa Diependaele from the European Commission will comment on the need for EU-funded projects to have impact and influence policy and the potential of the ethics brief format to contribute to this goal.
A video greeting from Prof. Peter Singer will complete the webinar.
The remote discussion will be moderated by Dr. Janet Salmons, Research Community Manager for Methodspace, and the UNESCO discussion by Prof. Doris Schroeder, PREPARED Co-ordinator.
June 7, 2023
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Learn more with these relevant resources! Prof. Doris Schroeder is the lead author of the Global Code of Conduct for Research in Resource-Poor Settings (2018) which is a mandatory reference document for Horizon Europe and now used in over 50 lower income countries. She is a co-editor on Equitable Research Partnerships: A Global Code of Conduct to Counter Ethics Dumping, which you can downloaded free in PDF or EPub formats. Also see this guest post: “Equitable Research Partnerships instead of Helicopter Research.”