Ethics, evidence, and expert disagreement in public health emergencies. Public health responses to pandemics have major consequences beyond the diseases themselves. Ethical responses must balance the

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Ethics, evidence, and expert disagreement in public health emergencies. Public health responses to pandemics have major consequences beyond the diseases themselves. Ethical responses must balance the benefits of controlling epidemics with causing social and economic harms to society. This project aims to understand how expert disagreement over evidence contributes to contentious emergency public health responses. Expected outcomes include new evidence-based methods for ethical evaluation of public health responses that may reduce harms, along with guidance on how public health ethics frameworks should be used when experts disagree. The project hopes to provide social and economic benefits to Australia by helping health policy makers ethically balance the benefits and harms of pandemic responses.. Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award. Field: 5001 - Applied Ethics. Lead: A/Prof Euzebiusz Jamrozik