The Ethics of Human Challenge Studies Part - 1: Challenge trials generally

The NUS Centre for Biomedical Ethics (CBmE) and SHAPES in collaboration with the National Centre for Infectious Diseases present the workshop on the Ethics of Human Challenge Studies held on 8 April 2024.
Part 1 of this workshop chaired by Dr Owen Schaefer from CBmE, explores challenge trials generally, comprising talks by our esteemed speakers:
1. Shobana Balasingham, Research Lead for the Human Infection Study Programme at Wellcome provided an "Overview of history, aims and methodology of challenge trials" (00:03:04 - 00:17:58)
2. Professor Jerry Menikoff from NUS CBmE discussed the "Ethical and Regulatory Aspects of Challenge Studies" (00:18:57 - 00:36:03)
3. Professor Peter Singer from Princeton University, widely known as the world's most influential living philosopher, deliberated on "Further ethical challenges & approaches to overcome those challenges (Risk thresholds)" (00:37:18 - 00:52:32)
4. Jake Eberts, Communications Director at 1Day Sooner brought in "Participant Perspectives" on engaging in human challenge trials (00:53:29 - 01:08:11)
This was followed by a panel of the speakers engaging with the audience (01:08:12 - 01:41:45)
A summary of the workshop can be found here - medicine.nus.e...

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