As the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) and Rockefeller University embark on this major research enterprise, it will be important to create an initiative that addresses social and ethical issues in science, health care, and technology. The global community is still facing unprecedented challenges resulting from the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. A bioethics initiative within the Institute can make important contributions to the understanding of what we, as a society, have been through and what we need to do going forward.
Equitable participation and ethical conduct in biomedical research are priorities for the Institute. We are actively engaged in discussions with partner institutions such as the Global Infectious Disease Ethics Collaborative (GLIDE) formed by the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and the Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities at the University of Oxford. Our goal is to become integrated into leading efforts into these areas and to make sure that equitability and bioethics become and remain an integral part of our culture and research.
