PAHO’s Regional Program on Bioethics has developed a document that provides ethics guidance for the public health response, health care delivery and research during current COVID-19 pandemic.

Such document is available at: https://www.paho.org/en/documents/ethics-guidance-issues-raised-novel-coronavirus-disease-covid-19-pandemic.

In the virtual seminar to PAHO’s ethics guidance for COVID-19 research was presented the imperatives to conduct rapid ethics review of COVID-19 research protocols and to promote future research through the use of broad consent were discussed.  The recording is available at: https://paho.webex.com/recordingservice/sites/paho/recording/718eb53feb6b4ba1abe8529be1b96586