Prof. Silvia Camporesi

Registration now open for the Institute of Medical Ethics annual conference which twill take place in Leeds on July 6th and 7th.

This year’s theme is #fairness in #health and #healthcare

Building on the theme of our very successful 2022 conference “Being Heard” we take an intersectional approach to explore the ethical and legal considerations of #justice, #inclusivity and #variability in health and health care.

The full programme of the conference is available here.

I’ll be there in my role as IME Trustee, and member of the Conference Organising Committee Hope to see many of you there! To book your place for the conference click here.

#leeds #IME #medicalethics #bioethics #instituteofmedicalethics

When: 5 May 2023, 12:00 – 14:00

Where: Conference room (A222), Department of Political Science, University of Vienna, Universitätsstr. 7/2nd floor, 1010 Vienna

In this talk I will present the results of the Italian branch of the international research project ESCaPE (Evaluating Scientific Advice in a Pandemic Emergency) which I led in 2020-21 and which aimed at understanding how expert advice was sought, produced, and utilized in the management of the Covid-19 emergency in Italy.

This case study provides an overview and encompassing representation of the mobilization of experts, and of selected types of evidence, in Italy in 2020. The findings of this study suggest that expert politics can lead to the confirmation of knowledge hierarchies that privilege hard sciences, and corroborate prior literature indicating that economic and social expertise has not been well integrated into public health expert advice, constituting a major challenge for policymaking during an emergency.

You can find a summary of the research here:

https://socialsciences.nature.com/posts/what-experts-whose-advice-the-delphi-oracle-and-moses-tablets-in-the-management-of-the-covid-19-health-emergency-in-italy

and the article published in Nature Humanities & Social Sciences communications in 2022 here:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-022-01042-6