Publications

Exploring the practical, legal, and ethical considerations raised by surrogacy.

Providing fresh insight into people’s views on precision breeding and its implications for farmed animals and our food systems.

A public dialogue to explore people’s hopes, expectations and concerns regarding research and innovation connected with ageing.

Drawing on our in-depth work on public health ethics, we have published ethics tools to help decision-makers develop a proportionate response to public health threats.

This briefing note explores the ethical and social issues arising from the use of technology in mental healthcare.

Examining the social and ethical issues raised by the potential use of genome editing technologies in farmed animal breeding.

A commissioned rapid online dialogue exploring public views on emerging technologies.

This briefing note explores factors influencing the access and uptake of vaccines; approaches taken by public health authorities; and the ethical considerations that arise in this context.

This spotlight briefing summarises the questions that remain for the UK Government about the next phase of the COVID-19 response.

An overview of the key policy, social, and ethical issues around egg freezing and social egg freezing.

A summary of meetings that we organised to explore experiences, expertise and ethical challenges in the care and treatment of young people in the UK in relation to their gender identity.

Exploring the key ethical, social and policy issues relating to COVID-19 antibody testing and immunity certification.