Ethics without borders: healthcare professionals navigating disease and displacement in Ethiopia, Poland, and the UK

As people move across borders, healthcare and humanitarian professionals must respond to infectious disease risks while balancing patient care, public health responsibilities, and humanitarian principles. Ethiopia, Poland, and the UK represent interconnected points along broader migration routes linking the Horn of Africa with Eastern and Western Europe, where these challenges are shared across borders.

This project explores how healthcare and humanitarian professionals working in these three settings navigate ethical dilemmas related to migration, infectious disease, and cross-border health governance. The study aims to identify challenges and inform more collaborative and equitable approaches to global health and humanitarian response. 

Project team

Halina Suwalowska, Patricia Kingori, and Naima Nasir (University of Oxford) 

Joseph Ali and Baldeep Dhaliwal (Berman Institute of Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University) 

Adamu Addissie and Lealem Wagaw (Addis Ababa University) 

Rafał Zadykowicz (Medical University of Warsaw and Médecins Sans Frontières) 

Sharon Kaur (University of Malaya and Southeast Asia Bioethics Network).