Articles, presentations and other resources I contributed to (most recent first).
Dónal O’Mathúna. COVID-19 Vaccine Safety. Unpublished paper written in February 2021 to address safety questions about the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna mRNA vaccines.
Dónal P. O’Mathúna & Iñigo de Miguel Beriain (eds). Ethics and Law for Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear & Explosive Crises. Dordrecht: Springer Nature, 2019.
Dónal P. O’Mathúna, “Health Care Workers’ Obligations in CBRNE Crises,” in Ethics and Law for Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear & Explosive Crises. Edited by Dónal P. O’Mathúna & Iñigo de Miguel Beriain, pp. 185-197. Cham: Springer, 2019.
Dónal P. O’Mathúna and Iñigo de Miguel Beriain, “Introduction to ethical and legal issues in CBRNE crises,” in Ethics and Law for Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear & Explosive Crises. Edited by Dónal P. O’Mathúna & Iñigo de Miguel Beriain, pp. 7-13. Cham: Springer, 2019.
Matthew Hunt, Sharon O’Brien, Patrick Cadwell & Dónal P. O’Mathúna. “Ethics at the intersection of crisis translation and humanitarian innovation,” Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, 1.3 (2019): 23-32.
Dónal P. O’Mathúna & Matthew Hunt, “Ethics and crisis translation: Insights from the work of Paul Ricoeur,” Disaster Prevention and Management, (2019) ePub ahead of press.
Angus Dawson, Sapfo Lignou, Chesmal Siriwardhana and Dónal P. O’Mathúna, “Why research ethics should add retrospective review,” BMC Medical Ethics 20.68 (2019): 1-8.
Veselin L. Mitrović, Dónal P. O’Mathúna and Iskra A. Nola, “Ethics and Floods: A Systematic Review,” Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, 13.4 (August 2019): 817-828.
Dónal P. O’Mathúna, Vilius Dranseika, & Bert Gordijn (eds.). Disasters: Core Concepts and Ethical Theories. Dordrecht: Springer, 2018. Available for free download.
Dónal P. O’Mathúna and Bert Gordijn, “Conceptualizing and assessing disasters: An introduction,” in Disasters: Core Concepts and Ethical Theories. Edited by Dónal P. O’Mathúna, Vilius Dranseika, & Bert Gordijn, pp. 1-9. Cham: Springer, 2018.
Dónal P. O’Mathúna, “Christian theology and disasters: Where is God in all this?” in Disasters: Core Concepts and Ethical Theories. Edited by Dónal P. O’Mathúna, Vilius Dranseika, & Bert Gordijn, pp. 27-42. Cham: Springer, 2018.
Matthew Hunt, Nicole E. Pal, Lisa Schwartz and Dónal O’Mathúna, “Ethical Challenges in the Provision of Mental Health Services for Children and Families During Disasters,” Current Psychiatry Reports 20.8 (2018): 60.
Dónal O’Mathúna and Chesmal Siriwardhana, “Research ethics and evidence for humanitarian health,” The Lancet, 390.10109 (18 November 2017): 2228-9.
Signe Mezinska, Péter Kakuk, Goran Mijaljica, Marcin Waligóra and Dónal O’Mathúna, “Research in disaster settings: A systematic qualitative review of ethical guidelines,” BMC Medical Ethics 17.1 (2016):1-11.
Dónal O’Mathúna, “Ethics and Evidence,” an Evidence Aid blog with Hugo Slim (August 2016).
Gabrielle Berman, Jason Hart, Dónal O’Mathúna, Erica Mattellone, Alina Potts, Clare O’Kane, Jeremy Shusterman, & Thomas Tanne, “What we know about ethical research involving children in humanitarian settings: An overview of principles, the literature and case studies,” Innocenti Working Paper No. 2016-18, UNICEF Office of Research, Florence, 2016.
Dónal O’Mathúna, “Ideal and nonideal moral theory for disaster bioethics,” Human Affairs 26.1 (2016): 8-17.
Dónal P. O’Mathúna & Johan Von Schreeb, “Ethical dilemmas with amputations after earthquakes,” UNISDR Scientific and Technical Advisory Group Case Studies – 2015.
Ana Borovecki, Jónína Einarsdóttir, Dónal O’Mathúna, Paulina Pospieszna, Orly Maya Stern, Natália Oliva Teles. “20 years of the ICRC Code of Conduct for Disaster Relief: What do we need to improve?” [Correspondence] The Lancet 385 (11 April 2015): 1391.
Dónal P. O’Mathúna, “Research ethics in the context of humanitarian emergencies,” Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine 8.1 (2015): 31-35.
Matthew Hunt, Lisa Schwartz, John Pringle, Renaud Boulanger, Elysée Nouvet, Dónal O’Mathúna, & participants of the Humanitarian Healthcare Ethics Forum, “A research agenda for Humanitarian Health Ethics,” PLOS Currents Disasters (August 2014): Edition 1.
Dónal P. O’Mathúna, Bert Gordijn, Mike Clarke (eds.). Disaster Bioethics: Normative Issues When Nothing is Normal. Dordrecht: Springer, 2014. ISBN 978-94-007-3863-8.
Dónal P. O’Mathúna, “Disasters,” in Compendium & Atlas of Global Bioethics, ed. Henk A. M. J. ten Have and Bert Gordijn, pp. 616-639. Springer, 2014.
Dónal O’Mathúna. Disaster Bioethics: healthcare ethics during disaster relief. Seminar at the School of Nursing and Human Sciences, Dublin City University. 27 October 2011. Presentation Slides or podcast. [Large files. Right click and download]
Dónal P. O’Mathúna. Ethics in disaster research. Evidence Aid podcast. 20 May 2011.
“Conducting research in the aftermath of disasters: ethical considerations,” Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine 3.2 (2010): 65-75.
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