Health Humanities and Social Sciences Unit

Community engagement and participation are big buzzwords in health research these days. But communities, especially those considered disadvantaged and marginalised, rarely have a say in the agendas and priorities of the very health research projects that aim to help them.

In order to reduce the transmission of COVID-19, health care institutions around the world have implemented visitor restriction policies. As with other public health policy responses to COVID-19, these policies prioritise maximising health outcomes for the entire community over individual patient and family needs.

Dr Rosalind McDougall, Prof Lynn Gillam, Dr Danielle Ko, Ms Isabella Holmes, Prof Clare Delanyrmcdo@unimelb.edu.au

The discussants areProf Per Axelsson of Umea University Sweden, who has worked on polio in Sweden and on Sami health and history.Prof Linda Bryder, who has written on TB in the UK, the Spanish Flu in New Zealand and in the PacificProf Janet McCalman who taught the interdisciplinary subject ‘An Ecological History of Humanity’ for sixteen years and works on historical population health.The host is Emma Dawson, director of Per Capita

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A University of Melbourne ethicist is encouraging doctors to recognise the autonomy of parents, even if this could mean “less than optimal” treatment decisions for their children.