THE ETHICAL OBLIGATIONS OF PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES IN A GLOBAL HEALTH EMERGENCY – CASE STUDY: COVID-19 VACCINES

Dr. Ezekiel J. Emanuel, MD, PhD, Vice Provost for Global Initiatives, Diane v.S. Levy and Robert M. Levy University Professor and Co-Director, Healthcare Transformation Institute at the University of Pennsylvania will kick off a timely discussion with Dr. Ron Cohen, MD, CEO of Acorda Therapeutics, with a keynote presentation on the ethical obligations of pharmaceutical companies in a global health emergency. Using COVID-19 vaccines as a case study. Dr. Emanuel will lay out the ethical principles that should guide companies’ approach and the specific opportunities and constraints for fulfilling those principles in the current moment, drawing from an article he co-authored in the September 11, 2021 Lancet .