Diego S Silva
Biographic Data
| ID | 3581186 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Diego S Silva |
| GIVEN NAMES | Diego S |
| FAMILY NAME | Silva |
| SIGNATURE | SILVA D S |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8195-6404 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Vaccination policies and the ethics of risking
Managing the perceived or actual risks of vaccine policy remains a challenge for public health. Vaccines are among the most significant public health achievements; however, current public and political discourse focuses on the risk of harm they purportedly produce. While the vaccine-related bioethics literature often centres on risk, it has largely overlooked the growing normative scholarship on ethical risk imposition and just distribution. We u…
Voluntariness or validity? A reply to Smith and Mackie
Achieving equity to fully realise the pandemic agreement
box The values articulated in the Pandemic Agreement (PA)—including equity, solidarity and trust—are important building blocks in attempts to facilitate the global development and distribution of vaccines and other technologies in future outbreaks and pandemics
We are not doing enough
Most public health practitioners and researchers in Australia acknowledge the poorer health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders peoples relative to non-Indigenous Australians; some work with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities; however, few acknowledge the role that public health itself has played in the plight of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders peoples throughout Australia’s colonial history. In this essa…
A critical analysis of UK media characterisations of Long Covid in children and young people
Long Covid is the continuation or development of symptoms related to a SARSCoV2 infection. Those with Long Covid may face epistemic injustice, where they are unjustifiably viewed as unreliable evaluators of their own illness experiences. Media articles both reflect and influence perception and subsequently how people regard children and young people (CYP) with Long Covid, and may contribute to epistemic injustice. We aimed to explore how the UK m…
Crowdsourcing to support training for public health
Crowdsourcing is an interactive process that has a group of individuals attempt to solve all or part of a problem and then share solutions with the public. Crowdsourcing is increasingly used to enhance training through developing learning materials and promoting mentorship. This scoping review aims to assess the literature on crowdsourcing for training in public health. We searched five medical and public health research databases using terms rel…
Botswana tuberculosis (TB) stakeholders broadly support scaling up next-generation whole genome sequencing
Global health agencies are increasingly promoting the scale-up of next-generation whole genome sequencing (NG-WGS) of pathogens into infectious disease control programs, including for tuberculosis (TB). However, little is known about how stakeholders in low-to-middle income countries (LMICs) understand the ethics, benefits, and risks of these proposals. We conducted a qualitative study in Greater Gaborone, Botswana to learn how TB stakeholders th…
Ethical health security in the age of antimicrobial resistance
OBJECTIVE: Owing to its potential human, social and economic costs, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is frequently referred to as a threat to health security. Simultaneously, health security and the preservation of antimicrobials are often described as a global public good. However, how the term 'public good' is used in the context of health security, and the values that underpin it, remains ambiguous. Policymaking is never value-free, and a better…
R&D during public health emergencies
In January 2021, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director–general of the WHO, warned that the world was ‘on the brink of a catastrophic moral failure [that] will be paid with lives and livelihoods in the world’s poorest countries’. We are now past the brink. Many high-income countries have vaccinated their populations (which, in some cases, includes third and even fourth doses) and are loosening public health and social measures, while low-income …
Between rules and resistance
In times of a public health emergency, lawyers and ethicists play a key role in ensuring that government responses, such as travel restrictions, are both legally and ethically justified. However, when travel bans were imposed in a broadly discriminatory manner against southern African countries in response to the Omicron SARS-CoV-2 variant in late 2021, considerations of law, ethics or science did not appear to guide politicians’ decisions. Rathe…
Mere rhetoric? Using solidarity as a moral guide for deliberations on border closures, border reopenings and travel restrictions in the age of Covid-19
box > Every government is responsible for, and accountable to, its own people. But Member States can only truly keep their own people safe if they are accountable to each other at the global level. > > - Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, 74th World Health Assembly, 31 May 20211 As we enter the second half of 2021, the global health community continues to be vexed by the following question: what justifies states’ continued use of international trave…
Social distancing, social justice, and risk during the Covid-19 pandemic
Limiting Rights and Freedoms in the Context of Ebola and Other Public Health Emergencies
One of the key components of CESCR General Comment No. 14: The Right to the Highest Attainable Standard of Health (GC 14) is the recognition that human rights are necessarily interdependent and that the social determinants of health are important to the promotion of health itself; as stated in paragraph 3 "...other [human] rights and freedoms [e.g., food, housing] address integral components of the right to health." GC 14, paragraph 16 maintains …
Disadvantaging the Disadvantaged
Priority setting of ICU resources in an influenza pandemic
Our findings underscore the importance of public consultation in pandemic planning for sustaining public trust in a public health emergency. Participants appreciated the empirical and ethical uncertainty of decision-making in an influenza pandemic and demonstrated nuanced ethical reasoning about priority setting of intensive care resources in an influenza pandemic. Policymakers may benefit from a better understanding the public's empirical and et…
Disadvantaging the Disadvantaged
Social distancing, social justice, and risk during the Covid-19 pandemic
Limiting Rights and Freedoms in the Context of Ebola and Other Public Health Emergencies
One of the key components of CESCR General Comment No. 14: The Right to the Highest Attainable Standard of Health (GC 14) is the recognition that human rights are necessarily interdependent and that the social determinants of health are important to the promotion of health itself; as stated in paragraph 3 "...other [human] rights and freedoms [e.g., food, housing] address integral components of the right to health." GC 14, paragraph 16 maintains …
Priority setting of ICU resources in an influenza pandemic
Our findings underscore the importance of public consultation in pandemic planning for sustaining public trust in a public health emergency. Participants appreciated the empirical and ethical uncertainty of decision-making in an influenza pandemic and demonstrated nuanced ethical reasoning about priority setting of intensive care resources in an influenza pandemic. Policymakers may benefit from a better understanding the public's empirical and et…
Disadvantaging the Disadvantaged
Limiting Rights and Freedoms in the Context of Ebola and Other Public Health Emergencies
One of the key components of CESCR General Comment No. 14: The Right to the Highest Attainable Standard of Health (GC 14) is the recognition that human rights are necessarily interdependent and that the social determinants of health are important to the promotion of health itself; as stated in paragraph 3 "...other [human] rights and freedoms [e.g., food, housing] address integral components of the right to health." GC 14, paragraph 16 maintains …
Social distancing, social justice, and risk during the Covid-19 pandemic
Mere rhetoric? Using solidarity as a moral guide for deliberations on border closures, border reopenings and travel restrictions in the age of Covid-19
box > Every government is responsible for, and accountable to, its own people. But Member States can only truly keep their own people safe if they are accountable to each other at the global level. > > - Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, 74th World Health Assembly, 31 May 20211 As we enter the second half of 2021, the global health community continues to be vexed by the following question: what justifies states’ continued use of international trave…
Ethical health security in the age of antimicrobial resistance
OBJECTIVE: Owing to its potential human, social and economic costs, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is frequently referred to as a threat to health security. Simultaneously, health security and the preservation of antimicrobials are often described as a global public good. However, how the term 'public good' is used in the context of health security, and the values that underpin it, remains ambiguous. Policymaking is never value-free, and a better…
R&D during public health emergencies
In January 2021, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director–general of the WHO, warned that the world was ‘on the brink of a catastrophic moral failure [that] will be paid with lives and livelihoods in the world’s poorest countries’. We are now past the brink. Many high-income countries have vaccinated their populations (which, in some cases, includes third and even fourth doses) and are loosening public health and social measures, while low-income …
Between rules and resistance
In times of a public health emergency, lawyers and ethicists play a key role in ensuring that government responses, such as travel restrictions, are both legally and ethically justified. However, when travel bans were imposed in a broadly discriminatory manner against southern African countries in response to the Omicron SARS-CoV-2 variant in late 2021, considerations of law, ethics or science did not appear to guide politicians’ decisions. Rathe…
Crowdsourcing to support training for public health
Crowdsourcing is an interactive process that has a group of individuals attempt to solve all or part of a problem and then share solutions with the public. Crowdsourcing is increasingly used to enhance training through developing learning materials and promoting mentorship. This scoping review aims to assess the literature on crowdsourcing for training in public health. We searched five medical and public health research databases using terms rel…
Botswana tuberculosis (TB) stakeholders broadly support scaling up next-generation whole genome sequencing
Global health agencies are increasingly promoting the scale-up of next-generation whole genome sequencing (NG-WGS) of pathogens into infectious disease control programs, including for tuberculosis (TB). However, little is known about how stakeholders in low-to-middle income countries (LMICs) understand the ethics, benefits, and risks of these proposals. We conducted a qualitative study in Greater Gaborone, Botswana to learn how TB stakeholders th…
A critical analysis of UK media characterisations of Long Covid in children and young people
Long Covid is the continuation or development of symptoms related to a SARSCoV2 infection. Those with Long Covid may face epistemic injustice, where they are unjustifiably viewed as unreliable evaluators of their own illness experiences. Media articles both reflect and influence perception and subsequently how people regard children and young people (CYP) with Long Covid, and may contribute to epistemic injustice. We aimed to explore how the UK m…
Achieving equity to fully realise the pandemic agreement
box The values articulated in the Pandemic Agreement (PA)—including equity, solidarity and trust—are important building blocks in attempts to facilitate the global development and distribution of vaccines and other technologies in future outbreaks and pandemics
We are not doing enough
Most public health practitioners and researchers in Australia acknowledge the poorer health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders peoples relative to non-Indigenous Australians; some work with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities; however, few acknowledge the role that public health itself has played in the plight of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders peoples throughout Australia’s colonial history. In this essa…
Vaccination policies and the ethics of risking
Managing the perceived or actual risks of vaccine policy remains a challenge for public health. Vaccines are among the most significant public health achievements; however, current public and political discourse focuses on the risk of harm they purportedly produce. While the vaccine-related bioethics literature often centres on risk, it has largely overlooked the growing normative scholarship on ethical risk imposition and just distribution. We u…
Voluntariness or validity? A reply to Smith and Mackie
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