Caroline Redhead is a non-practising solicitor and a Research Fellow in the Centre for Social Ethics and Policy at The University of Manchester.Melanie Smallman is Associate Professor in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at University College London.

• Introduction – Melanie Smallman and Caroline Redhead1 The epidemic as a life event: Epidemicity and epidemic form - Lina Minou, James Wilson and Daniel Herron2 Relationships were a casualty when pandemic ethics and everyday clinical ethics collided - Caroline Redhead, Anna Chiumento, Sara Fovargue, Heather Draper and Lucy Frith3 Evaluating post-pandemic plans for social care data infrastructures – Cian O’Donovan4 Data ethics in an emergency - Melanie Smallman, Cian O’Donovan, James Wilson and Jack Hume5 Data-driven decision-making beyond COVID-19: Incorporating the voice of the child – Claire Bessant and Rachel Allsopp6 Where are publics in pandemic public policy? – Jamie Webb and Kiran Kaur Manku FRSA7 From a crisis of confidence towards confidence in a crisis: What can we learn about the pandemic’s impact on democracy? – Reema Patel8 Accountability, transparency, and good governance: The WHO’s decision making during an emergency – Harry Upton, Abbie-Rose Hampton and Mark Eccleston-TurnerIndex