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Legal Issues in Social Work Practice and Research | Sana Loue

This highly practical text surveys the myriad legal and ethical issues that social workers encounter both in daily practice and under special circumstances. Its initial section presents concepts in law and ethics that unite practitioners, researchers, and academics in the field, such as confidentiality, informed consent, and the interplay between social work and administrative and judicial systems. A selection of representative cases illustrates legal aspects involved in providing services to families, children, elders, and persons with disabilities. Also included are chapters on advocacy in social work, both in its potential to influence policy and on the global stage as part of the ongoing struggle for human rights and dignity.

University of Minnesota to host webinar - Is COVID-19 changing research ethics?

 E-Mail On Wednesday, March 3, the University of Minnesota will host top national experts to debate how COVID-19 is changing the rules and conduct for research. This webinar on "Conducting Research in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Ethics in an Emergency" will tackle huge issues, including: How can research successfully include the Black, Indigenous, and other vulnerable populations who are being hit so hard by the pandemic? What steps will make research genuinely responsive to the needs of those communities? How can health professionals simultaneously collect data ethically, try to save each patient's life, and allocate scarce medications? Most currently available treatments are not FDA-approved, and instead are available under Emergency Use Authorizations (EUAs). Collecting data is essential, but so are saving lives and allocating medications ethically.

Blurring Lines: Between Vaccine Urgency in a Pandemic and Research and Regulation Ethics

Your Say Health care workers administering the COVID-19 vaccine, in the presence of the Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare, Shri Ashwini Kumar Choubey, during the 1st phase of the pan India rollout of COVID-19 vaccination drive, at Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, New Delhi on January 16, 2021. Author: T V Padma is a science journalist based in New Delhi, with special interest in public health and research ethics Ten days after it rolled out two vaccines in mid-January, one of which was mired in controversy, India has vaccinated more than 2.3 million people. The country, one of the world’s largest vaccine suppliers, and battling the second highest number of Covid-19 infections in the world, with more than 10 million cases[i], rolled out one the biggest immunization programs against the disease on 16 January. In doing so, it has inadvertently added to the growing number of niggling questions over blurring of lines between the urgency of a vaccine during a pandemic and the need to conform to clinical research and regulatory protocols without taking short-cuts.   The Covid-19 pandemic has brought to the fore the remarkable progress of vaccine science that has, in less than year, turned out 236 candidate vaccines so far, 63 of which are in clinical phase and 173 in pre-clinical phase.[ii] International and national health agencies responded with alacrity to the pandemic to ensure speedy vaccine research and trials against a new infection.    

Anthony Fauci's wife throws him a surprise Zoom party for his 80th birthday

Dr Anthony Fauci said he had no idea that his wife of 35 years had organized a surprise Zoom party, inviting some 15 people from around the world to wish him happy 80th birthday on Sunday.

Grocers, teachers, first responders? Subcommittee discusses who could be next to get COVID-19 shots