Emerging Science, Personal Protective Equipment Guidance, and Resource Scarcity: Inaction and Inequity for Workers in...

Abigail E Lowe¹, Kelly K Dineen¹, Jocelyn J Herstein¹+9

• ¹Abigail E. Lowe, MA, is Director, Ethics and Public Health Preparedness; Jocelyn J. Herstein, PhD, MPH, is a Research Assistant Professor; David M. Brett-Major, MD, MPH, is a Professor; and Rachel E. Lookadoo, JD, is Director, Legal and Public Health Preparedness, and Instructor; all in the College of Public Health, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE. Kelly K. Dineen, JD, PhD, is Director, Health Law Program; an Associate Professor of Law; and a Professor of Medical Humanities; all at Creighton University School of Law, Omaha, NE. Matthew K. Wynia, MD, MPH, is Director, Center for Bioethics and Humanities, and a Professor of Medicine and Public Health, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO. Joshua L. Santarpia, PhD, MS, is an Associate Professor, College of Medicine; Research Director, Chemical and Biological Programs, National Strategic Research Institute; and Co-Director of Biological Defense and Health Security-Sub Plan, Graduate Studies; all at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE. Lisa M. Lee, PhD, MA, MS, is Associate Vice President, Research and Innovation; Director, Scholarly Integrity and Research Compliance, Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation; and a Research Professor, Department of Population Health Sciences; all at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA. Alva O. Ferdinand, DrPH, JD, is an Associate Professor and Director of Southwest Rural Health Research Center, Texas A&M University School of Public Health, College Station, TX. Sara K. Donovan, MPH, is a Doctoral Student, Graduate Studies, and Graduate Research Assistant, Global Center for Health Security; both at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE. Teck Chuan Voo, PhD, is an Assistant Professor, Centre for Biomedical Ethics, NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Singapore. Seema Mohapatra, JD, MPH, is a Dean's Fellow and Associate Professor, Robert H. McKinney School of Law, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN.