Professor Douglas MacKay and PhD student Katherine Saylor participated in research examining “controlled human infection” studies

July 4, 2020

The research team recently published on the ethics of using humans to accelerate the development of a vaccine to prevent COVID-19 in Science. The article develops an ethical framework to evaluate the justifiability of such studies, which involve the deliberate exposure of healthy volunteers to the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Read more.