Commission: The global politics of AI and healthcare

This is a commission to write a discussion piece for policy makers on how to navigate the changing global politics of AI and healthcare. It is part of the Global (Dis)order Policy Program lead by the British Academy and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Professor Jesper Strömbäck, The Swedish Commission on the Future Seminars host is Stefan Svallfors. The seminars are free of charge and take place at 13.00–14.30 in the Institute’s seminar room at Holl

Journal of Health Organization and Management Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to contribute knowledge on ethical issues and reasoning in expertreports concerning healthcare governance, cDesign/methodology/approach – An in-depth analysis of ethical issues and reasoning in 36 commissionedexpert reports was performed. Twenty-seven interviews with commissioners and producers of the reports werealso carried out and analysed.Findings – Some ethical issues were identified in the reports. But ethical reasoning was rarely evident. Themeaning of ethical concepts could be devalued and changed over time and thereby deviate from statutoryethical goals and values. Several ethical issues of great concern for the Swedish public healthcare were alsoabsent.Practical implications – The commissioner of expert reports needs to ensure that comprehensive ethicalconsiderations and ethical analysis are integrated in the expert reports.Originality/value – Based on an extensive data material this paper reveals an ethical void in expert reportson healthcare governance. By avoiding ethical issues there is a risk that the expert reports could bring aboutreforms and control models that have ethically undesirable consequences for people and society.

Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration, vol. 27. No. 2, p. 57–70. Abstract This paper analyses the process in which expert reports on health care governance are commissioned, produced and receive

Politics & Policy 50(1): 59–76. Abstract The article analyzes the commissioning and production of expert reports about Swedish health care management and governance. We show that these reports are r

Equality and equity in Swedish education: policy, practice and historical perspectives

Björn Åstrand, Universitetslektor vid Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier vid Umeå universitet. Equality and equity in education is since long a key policy priority internationally as well as in

A monster in the making. Interview with Matthias Matthijs on the euro crisis and democracy

What started off as a political project aimed at strengthening democracies has become an economic project in crisis that undermines democracy. We are of course talking about the european union and the

Björn Åstrand, Associate professor at Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies at Umeå University AbstractEquality and equity in education is since long a key policy priority intern

The Swedish government has appointed two new members to the board of the Institute for Futures Studies. The new members come with knowledge of robotics and experience from the government's Future Comm

What started off as a political project aimed at strengthening democracies has become an economic project in crisis that undermines democracy. That is how economist Matthias Matthijs describes the Eur