Dr Sridhar Venkatapuram, Senior Lecturer and Acting Deputy Director of King’s Global Health Institute, discusses the vulnerabilities and interconnectedness made visible by the pandemic, and the ethical necessity to centre human welfare and wellbeing in policymaking practice.

These topics are explored in further detail in Vulnerable: The Law, Policy and Ethics of COVID-19, co-edited by Dr Venkatapuram, former Canadian Health Minister Jane Philpott, and University of Ottawa professors Colleen M. Flood, Vanessa MacDonnell and Sophie Theriault.