Consensus Documents

These documents represent consensus guidance because they emerged from processes involving many stakeholders and have become standard references.

Interventions

• Stand on Guard for Thee: Ethical considerations in preparedness planning for pandemic influenza. University of Toronto Joint Centre on Bioethics, 2005
• Ethical Considerations in Response to Pandemic Influenza, WHO, 2007
• Ethical Guidelines in Pandemic Influenza, CDC, 2007
• Ethics Guide for Health Care Practitioners Working Under Conditions of an Influenza Pandemic.Indiana University Center for Bioethics, 2009
• Guidance For Managing Ethical Issues In Infectious Disease Outbreaks, WHO, 2016
• Public Health Code of Ethics, APHA, 2019
• SAGE Values Framework, WHO, 2020
• SAGE Prioritization Roadmap, WHO, 2020

Research

• Research Ethics in International Epidemic Response, WHO, 2009
• Ethics in Epidemics, Emergencies and Disasters: Research, Surveillance and Patient Care Training Manual, WHO, 2015
• Ethical standards for research during public health emergencies: Distilling existing guidance to support COVID-19 R&D, WHO, 2020
• Key Criteria for the Ethical Acceptability of COVID-19 Human Challenge Studies, WHO, 2020
• Guidance for Research Ethics Committees for Rapid Review of Research During Public Health Emergencies, WHO, 2020
• Guidance and Strategies to Streamline Ethics Review and Oversight of COVID-19 Related Research, PAHO, 2020