Ethics of randomized trials in a public health emergency

Alex John London; Olayemi O Omotade; Michelle M Mello; Gerald T Keusch

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0006313

Ethics of randomized trials in a public health emergency

PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2018 May 17;12(5):e0006313. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0006313. eCollection 2018 May.

Authors

Alex John London¹, Olayemi O Omotade², Michelle M Mello³, Gerald T Keusch⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America.
² Institute of Child Health, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.
³ School of Law and School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America.
⁴ National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratory, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.

No abstract available

Publication types

Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

Emergency Medicine / ethics*
Humans
Public Health / ethics*
Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic / ethics*

Grants and funding

The study on which this Perspectives article is based was supported by a grant from the US Department of Health and Human Services, The Food and Drug Administration, and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to the National Academy of Medicine. The authors received no specific funding for this work.