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DESCRIPTION:The 91şÚÁĎÍř Research Group on Health and Law (RGHL) welcome MĂ©la
 nie Levy\, Health Law Institute\, University of Neuchâtel\, Switzerland.\n
 \nRSVP required via our Google Registration Form.\n	A Zoom link will be sen
 t to you ahead of the talk.\n\nAbstract\n\nThe COVID-19 pandemic has expos
 ed systemic\, institutional\, and legal obstacles and inefficiencies in Sw
 itzerland’s public health system. Partly due to federalism and the lack of
  digitalization\, the rollout of Swiss vaccination programs in early 2021 
 was slow and error prone. Now\, vaccine skepticism in a significant part o
 f the Swiss population jeopardizes the return to a life without restrictio
 ns. This phenomenon raises the question of incentives to promote vaccinati
 on and increase individuals’ willingness to get vaccinated. So far\, Switz
 erland has been cautious in this area\, compared to other countries.\n\nPo
 ssible tools range from vaccine mandates\, at least for specific professio
 ns\, to financial incentives and indirect mechanisms\, such as certificate
 s that allow vaccinated and tested individuals to access public venues and
  services (e.g.\, restaurant\, airplane\, university campus). The dichotom
 y between public health and individual liberty points to solidarity as a n
 ormative principle to address the frictions within Swiss society regarding
  vaccination.\n\nFinally\, the principle of solidarity highlights Switzerl
 and’s international obligations in the context of the global fight against
  the COVID-19 pandemic and the hitherto inequitable distribution of vaccin
 es.\n\nSpeaker\n\nMĂ©lanie Levy is an assistant professor at the Faculty of
  Law and co-director of the Health Law Institute at the University of Neuc
 hâtel in Switzerland. She is currently directing a research group financed
  by the Swiss National Science Foundation on the topic 'The Increasing Wei
 ght of Regulation: The Role(s) of Law as a Public Health Tool in the Preve
 ntion State'. MĂ©lanie Levy is also an adjunct lecturer at the Buchmann Fac
 ulty of Law at Tel Aviv University.\n\nProfessor Levy obtained her LL.M. f
 rom Cambridge University and her Ph.D. in Law from the University of Neuch
 âtel. She then pursued postdocs with the Research Group on Health and Law 
 at 91şÚÁĎÍř and the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Tel Aviv
  University. Melanie Levy’s research interests lie at the intersection of 
 law\, medicine\, technology\, and society.\n\nHer latest work includes pap
 ers on 'The rise of the Swiss regulatory healthcare state: On preserving t
 he just in the quest for the better (or less expensive?)' and 'Surrogacy a
 nd parenthood: a European saga of genetic essentialism and gender discrimi
 nation'.\n
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SUMMARY:The Swiss vaccination enigma: Between panacea\, federalism and skep
 ticism
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 en-panacea-federalism-and-skepticism-334317
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