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Hugh Whittall has retired as Director of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, after 14 years.

We are delighted to announce the start of a new public dialogue to explore people’s views on the ethical implications of genome editing in farmed animals.

We are delighted to announce that Professor David Archard, Chair of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, has been appointed to the National Genomics Board.

Guest post from Shaun Griffin and Hugh Whittall, UK Pandemic Ethics Accelerator.

The Nuffield Council on Bioethics is seeking contributions to an inquiry on the ethical issues relating to the role of science and technology in helping people live well in old age.

Just over a year ago we closed our 2-year long in-depth inquiry and published our final report ‘Research in global health emergencies: ethical issues’.

It has been one year since we published our briefing note on fair and equitable access to COVID-19 treatments and vaccines. A great deal has changed in the year since – we now have several COVID-19 vaccines being rolled out across the world, but issues around equitable access to them remain.

Trust in those developing, offering, and promoting vaccines plays a key role in decisions about the uptake of vaccines, says a new briefing note from the Nuffield Council on Bioethics.

A new national initiative to bring ethical thinking into pandemic policy-making launches today.

The Women and Equalities Committee (WEC) has set out a series of recommendations to increase the number of people in the UK who view their appearance positively.

Around this time last year, I packed up my office laptop and cheerily bid farewell to colleagues, assuring them I’d see them “in a few weeks” once lockdown was over. Reader, it was not a few weeks. Over a year to the day, I have yet to return to any office and indeed, having joined the Nuffield Council a couple of months into lockdown, have yet to meet many of my new colleagues in the flesh.