COVID-19: Faculty Publications

• Farhat Moazam and Aamir Jafarey, "Realigning Pakistan’s Bioethics Center during Covid-19," Hastings Center Report, vol. 50, no. 3 (May-June 2020): 8-9.
CBEC faculty discuss how the Centre is coping with the pandemic.

• Sualeha Shekhani, Natasha Anwar, Mariam Hassan, “Plasma therapy for Covid-19: The hopes and the hype,” DAWN PRISM (June 25, 2020)
This article explores ethical issues surrounding plasma research in Pakistan.

• Aamir Jafarey, Natasha Anwar, “What are Covid-19 anti-bodies? Does it help to test for them? Here's what is known so far,” DAWN PRISM (June 25, 2020)
This article demystifies the science of COVID-19 antibodies.

• Aamir Jafarey, Nida Wahid Bashir, “From bouquets to brickbat: Healthcare workers in the time of Covid-19,” Dawn Prism (June 22, 2020)
CBEC faculty discuss the reasons behind the fall from grace of healthcare workers in Pakistan in the wake of the pandemic.

• Aamir Jafarey, "Ethical dilemmas in clinical care during Covid-19 pandemic," Journal of Pakistan Medical Association, vol. 70, no. 5 (May 2020)
This article discusses ethical decision-making and the need for appropriate guidelines to ease the moral burden within COVID-19 times.

• Ghazal Shahid, Sualeha Shekhani, "Voices of the unheard: Living through the Karachi lockdown as a daily wager," Dawn Prism (May 12, 2020)
This press publication looks at the social ramifications of Covid-19 and how lockdown and the pandemic have affected migrant laborers and daily wage workers. 

• Farhat Moazam, "Ethics and COVID," Dawn Op-ed (May 03, 2020)
Dr. Farhat Moazam's op-ed discusses guidelines for allocation of scarce resources in times of pandemic.

• Sanjay Nagral, Aamir Jafarey, "A task for South Asia," The Hindu (April 29, 2020)
This article discusses how misplaced healthcare priorities have adversely affected the populations of South Asia.

• Aamir Jafarey, Nida Wahid Bashir, "To fight Covid-19, healthcare workers need responsible citizenry, capacity building, and reciprocity," Dawn Prism (April 10, 2020)
CBEC faculty discuss how an overemphasis on healthcare workers alone as saviours cannot win the fight against Covid-19.

• Sualeha Shekhani, Natasha Anwar, Mariam Hassan, "Does plasma therapy treat COVID? Is it safe? Here's all you need to know about the approach," Dawn Prism (April 6, 2020)
This article co-authored by CBEC alumni and faculty talks about the way plasma therapy has been publicized in Pakistan.

• Aamir Jafarey, Sualeha Shekhani, "With COVID-19, healthcare workers are having to choose who gets a chance to live, and who will be left to die," Dawn Prism (March 25, 2020)
CBEC faculty discuss the morally challenging healthcare decisions physicians and healthcare institutions are bound to confront as the full impact of the pandemic is felt.