Ongoing Clinical and Research Ethics Challenges in the Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has raised numerous clinical, public health, and research, both clinical and bench, ethics questions. This panel will review some of the ongoing research ethics questions including balancing patient privacy with public health needs, the use of biospecimens for research and surveillance, and balancing safety and speed in clinical research.

Panelists:

Rohit Gupta
UCSF Chief Biobank Officer

Edward Kuczynski, MA
Director, UCSF Human Research Protection Program

Vanessa Ridley, JD, MPH
Chief UCSF Health Compliance Officer, and Chief Privacy Officer

Moderated by Barbara Koenig, PhD
Director, UCSF Bioethics