The Ethics of Human Challenge Studies Part - 2: COVID-19 Challenge Trials

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 2 of this workshop chaired by Prof Julian Savulescu from CBmE, focuses on COVID-19 Challenge Trials and highlights from initiatives in Singapore:
1. Dr Bridget Williams, a public health physician and PhD candidate at the University of Oxford, discussed "Barriers and challenges specific to the COVID-19 context" (00:01:22 - 00:18:13)
2. Associate Professor Barnaby Young, Head of the Singapore Infectious Diseases Clinical Research Network (SCRN) and Principal Investigator of the Sing-Cov study, delivered insights into "COVID-19 challenge trials: context and ongoing projects" (00:19:00 - 00:43:03)
3. Sam Xin Hui, Research Fellow formerly at NCID and currently at Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine offered "Public perspectives on challenge studies in Singapore" (00:43:52 - 00:55:32)
This was followed by the panel of speakers engaging with the audience (00:55:33 - 01:33:08)
A summary of the workshop can be found here - medicine.nus.e...

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