June 22, 2021 (2.30 p.m. – 6 p.m.)
The Interdepartmental Center for Research Ethics and Integrity of the CNR in collaboration with the Sapienza University of Rome are organising the webinar on “COVID-19 and vaccines. Right to healthcare, distributive justice and solidarity between bioethics and international law”.
The event will be introduced by the President of the CNR, Maria Chiara Carrozza, together with the Rector of the Sapienza University of Rome, Antonella Polimeni.
The webinar is dedicated to the topic of fair access to Covid-19 vaccines, which raises several issues in national and global contexts, concerning different areas of socio-political, bio-legal and ethical reflection.
Within the context of the right to healthcare in its individual and collective dimensions, there is the twofold ethical-legal issue of the allocation of vaccines on a global scale and the criteria that must be applied (age, frailty, clinical criterion, productivity criterion), as well as that of mandatory vaccination and vaccine hesitancy.
In terms of international law, the health emergency resulting from the pandemic represents an unprecedented challenge to the effective exercise of the right to science and healthcare. Moreover, the phenomenon of vaccination nationalism has raised the question of solidarity and distributive justice, as it is clear that without a global population vaccination programme, it seems unlikely that developing countries will be able to begin within a short period of time the mass vaccination programmes that are in place in industrialised countries.
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- Thematic coordinator: Ilja Richard Pavone
- Poster
- For more information: info@ethics.cnr.it
- Video recording
- About us on CNR and OUTREACH websites
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