pandemic
Setting priorities during pandemics
This projects aims to present a framework for making sound decisions in times of pandemics - when experience and time is scarce, and uncertainties are many.
Pandemic Ethics Workshop
The Institute for Futures Studies (IFFS) and the Stockholm Centre for Healthcare Ethics (CHE) are organizing a workshop on ethical issues related to pandemics. Are you interested in attending? Get in or Greg Bognar.
Articles, videos and interviews on the corona pandemic
Our researchers comments the corona pandemic from their field of expertise. All the articles, videos and interviews are collected here. Is Sweden's soft lockdown working?Despite relatively high number
Three Mistakes in the Moral Reasoning About the Covid-19 Pandemic
Orri Stefánsson, philosopher at the Institute for Futures Studies and decision theorist, dissects the moral reasoning about the Covid-19 pandemic. (This text is part of the Institute for Futures Studie)
Three Mistakes in the Moral Reasoning About the Covid-19 Pandemic
Institute for Futures Studies Working Paper Series 2020:12 Abstract The response to the Covid-19 pandemic, and the public discourse about the pandemic, can be used to illustrate three common mistakes in
Did the COVID-19 pandemic change our social norms?
As you might remember, a lot of our social behaviors changed during the COVID-19 pandemic, and how we perceived the behaviors of others. What was once deemed acceptable behavior became scrutinized, wi
New episode of The New World: Capitalism after the pandemic
Historian Adam Tooze is the guest in the second episode of The New World - a podcast from the Institute for Futures Studies and Aftonbladet Kultur. Is the global response to the coronavirus outbreak a
Iwao Hirose: Restricting Freedom During Pandemic
Iwao Hirose is a Professor and Canada Research Chair in Value Theory and the Philosophy of Public Policy. His research areas are normative ethics and the philosophy of social science. AbstractIn order tThis seminar will be held online. The number of people who can join i s limited. You can check in a couple of minutes before the seminar begins. Do you wish to get reminders about our research seminars?
No declines in mental health among young adults at the beginning of the pandemic
When restrictions were introduced at the beginning of the pandemic, many assumed that young adults' mental health would deteriorate rapidly due to factors such as social isolation, unemployment and ec
Following the Science: Pandemic Policy Making and Reasonable Worst-Case Scenarios
LSE Public Policy Review, 1(4), p.6. 2021 Abstract The UK has been ‘following the science’ in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in line with the national framework for the use of scientific advice in as
