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Today the Government unveiled its new strategy to tackle obesity in England. We welcome the new measures, several of which are in line with the findings and recommendations of our 2007 public health report.

Two weeks ago, I came down with a respiratory infection that produced a high fever and a persistent, dry cough. Following the current official guidance, I went into isolation and my family entered quarantine…

Legal and policy responses to COVID-19 rest on and express the balance of different basic values and principles. Earlier and current regulatory approaches bring into sharp relief how liberty must be understood and weighed against other values. This is for the sake of liberty itself, but crucially too for other compelling aspects of social justice.

The Nuffield Council on Bioethics has published a new policy briefing. It setting out the key ethical considerations relevant to public health measures being introduced to manage the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK.

A brief analysis of what the Government is doing now to contain COVID-19, the possible restrictive measures that they might take to prevent and control the spread, why these might be justified, and why it is important that the Government sets out publicly – and early – the case for implementing such restrictive approaches.

So what relevance has our report to the enormous challenges being posed to health systems and governments the world over by COVID-19? Unsurprisingly, quite a lot.

We have put together a short guide to some of the main ethical questions around surveillance and quarantine for infectious diseases, based on the findings of our 2007 inquiry ‘public health: ethical issues’.

Recently, a group of leading healthcare organisations reported a 30% rise in worldwide measles case…

From today, junk food advertising will be banned on the entire Transport for London (TfL) network in…

On 6 April, the ‘sugar tax’ (officially, the ‘Soft Drinks Industry Levy’) will be implemente…