The CEO of the world's biggest vaccine producer, Serum Institute, warns that there will not be enough COVID-19 vaccines for the global population until 2024. Medical ethicist Art Caplan spoke with Boston Public Radio on Wednesday about why richer countries are getting the COVID-19 vaccine first. "It's because the rich countries bought up the vaccine supply in advance, [...]

The first shipments of Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine will be delivered on December 15, according to an Operation Warp Speed document obtained by CNN on Tuesday. The document, provided to governors ahead of a call with the Vice President Monday, also estimated the first shipment of Moderna's vaccine will be delivered on December 22. Click here [...]

When President Donald Trump confirmed Oct. 2 that he was diagnosed with Covid-19, he received a cocktail of therapies — some of which hadn’t yet been approved for general use. Click here to read the full article

BioNTech, based in Mainz, Germany, announced positive results Monday about the Covid-19 vaccine it is developing with Pfizer. Click here to read more.

October was a good month for Gilead Sciences, the giant manufacturer of antivirals headquartered in Foster City, California. On 8 October, the company inked an agreement to supply the European Union with its drug remdesivir as a treatment for COVID-19—a deal potentially worth more than $1 billion. Two weeks later, on 22 October, the U.S. [...]

Ana Lita, PhD GBI Co-Founder and Executive Director As we are currently facing the COVID - 19 pandemic, it is evident that we all need more factual information about how to prepare and possibly manage a disaster of this magnitude. At the Global Bioethics Initiative, we want to help address the information gaps and support others to be prepared for the peak of the Coronavirus infection. We are pleased to announce that we will be organizing a [...]

I am thankful to have had the chance to attend the summer school in Bangkok organized by the Global Bioethics Initiative (GBI), in collaboration with the Department of Bioethics & Engagement, Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU), University of Oxford. I was also the beneficiary of a partial scholarship. In my opinion, one of the [...]

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, in order to provide a level of certainty in planning for our Summer School in 2020, we have decided to deliver this program online as a virtual event. Dates will be announced shortly. We will use Zoom technology, for more information click here. We are working with our instructors to [...]

It was on the last day in 2019 that the news about the novel Coronavirus outbreak was first reported from Wuhan, China. On 31 December 2019, a cluster of pneumonia of unknown etiology was reported in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China (precisely from Wuhan seafood market). It was not until 9 January 2020, that the  [...]

Cultural factors play an important role in moulding the ethical perceptions of an individual. Daft et al. (2010) define culture as a “set of common values, norms, beliefs, and ideas shared by members of the same group and not written”. The eleven-day GBI 2019 summer school program in Manhattan was conceived to convey an understanding [...]