Public health ethics is the discipline that ensures that public health professionals and policy
makers explain what they do, and why. During the COVID-19 pandemic, ethical …

Drawing on the SAGE minutes and other documents, I consider the wider lessons for norms
of scientific advising that can be learned from the UK's initial response to coronavirus in the …

Scientific modelling is a value-laden process: the decisions involved can seldom be made
using 'scientific'criteria alone, but rather draw on social and ethical values. In this paper, we …

Novel externalities are social activities for which the emerging cost (or benefit) of the
spillover is unknown and must be discovered. Negative novel externalities have regained …

A wide range of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) have been introduced to stop or
slow down the COVID-19 pandemic. Examples include school closures, environmental …

More people than ever are paying attention to philosophical questions about
epidemiological models, including their susceptibility to the influence of social and ethical …

We analyse insufficient epistemic pluralism and associated problems in science-based
policy advice during the COVID-19 pandemic drawing on specific arguments in Paul …

This paper provides a framework for understanding optimal lockdowns and makes three
contributions. First, it theoretically analyzes lockdown policies and argues that policy makers …

Abstract Models not only represent but may also influence their targets in important ways.
While models' abilities to influence outcomes has been studied in the context of economic …

The COVID-19 pandemic illustrated many of the challenges with using science to guide
planning and policymaking. One such challenge has to do with how to manage, represent …