Publications
Publications
Johnson, T., von Seidlein, L., and Cheah, P.Y. (2025). A Just War on Bugs? Ethical differences between antimalarial resistance and antibacterial resistance, BMJ Global Health, https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2025-018943
Faber, F., Abeler-Dorner, L., Johnson, S., Johnson, T., and Jamrozik, E. (2025). Ethics of Identifying Individuals Involved in HIV Transmission Events by Phylogenetics in Molecular Surveillance, Bioethics, https://doi.org/10.1111/bioe.70011
Johnson, T., Jamrozik, E., Ramachandran, P., and Johnson, S. (2025). Clinical metagenomics: ethical issues, Journal of Medical Microbiology, https://doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.001967.
Johnson, T. (2024). Stewardship and social justice: implications of using the precautionary principle to justify burdensome antimicrobial stewardship measures, Monash Bioethics Review, https://doi.org/10.1007/s40592-024-00224-z. [peer-reviewed original research article but also editorial]
Abdool Karim, S., Alvarado, M., Johnson, T., and Barnhill, A. (2024). Recognizing the ethical complexity of food policies and the role of the food industry, Health Promotion International, https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daae168.
Johnson, T., Ndlovu, L., Baiyegunhi, O., Lora, W., and Desmond, N. (2024). Coercive public health policies need context-specific ethical justifications, Monash Bioethics Review, https://doi.org/10.1007/s40592-024-00218-x.
Johnson, T. (2024). Developing an ethical evaluation framework for coercive antimicrobial stewardship policies, Public Health Ethics 17(1-2): 11-23. https://doi.org/10.1093/phe/phae005.
Johnson, T. (2024). Stewardship according to context: justifications for coercive antimicrobial stewardship policies in agriculture and their limitations, Bioethics, https://doi.org/10.1111/bioe.13292 .
Pokharel, S., Adhikari, B., Johnson, T. and Cheah, P.Y. (2024). An ethical analysis of key tensions for interventions to address antimicrobial resistance and how they apply in low- and middle- income countries, BMJ Global Health 9, e012874, https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2023-012874.
Johnson, T. (2024). For the good of the globe: moral reasons for states to mitigate global catastrophic biological risks, Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11673-024-10337-z.
Johnson, T., Jamrozik, E., Hurst, T., Cheah, P.Y. and Parker, M. (2023). Ethical issues in Nipah virus control and research: addressing a neglected disease, Journal of Medical Ethics, https://doi.org/10.1136/jme-2023-109469.
Johnson, T. and Romanis, E.C. (2023). The relationship between speculation and translation in bioethics: methods and methodologies, Monash Bioethics Review, https://doi.org/10.1007/s40592-023-00181-z.
Hardcastle, F., Ballard, L., Weller, S., Lyle, K., Horton, R., Thompson, R., Samuel, G., Valério de Paula Trindade, L., Gómez Urrego, J.D., Kochin, D., Johnson, T., Tatz-Wieder, N., Redrup, E., Robinson Adams, F.E., Eskandar, Y., Harriss, E., Tsosie, K., Dixon, P., Nightingale, L., Mackintosh, M. and Lucassen, A. (2023). The ethical challenges of diversifying genomic data: A qualitative evidence synthesis, Cambridge Prisms: Precision Medicine, https://doi.org/10.1017/pcm.2023.20.
Johnson, T. and Matlock, W. (2023). Justifying the More Restrictive Alternative: Ethical Justifications for One Health AMR Policies Rely on Empirical Evidence, Public Health Ethics 16(1), https://doi.org/10.1093/phe/phac025.
Schaefer, G.O., Johnson, T., Friets, R., Menon, S. and Savulescu, J. (2022). Vaccination of individuals lacking decision-making capacity during a public health emergency, Journal of Law and the Biosciences, 9(2): lsac030, https://doi.org/10.1093/jlb/lsac030.
Anantharaman, M., Schaefer, O., Johnson, T. and Savulescu, J. (2022). Funder Priority for Vaccines: Implications of a Weak Lockean Claim, Bioethics, https://doi.org/10.1111/bioe.13075.
Johnson, T., Kollnig, K. and Dewitte, P. (2022). Towards responsible, lawful and ethical data processing: Patient data in the UK, Internet Policy Review, https://doi.org/10.14763/2022.1.1638.
Howick, J., Koletsi, D., Loef, M., Walach, H., Flieming, P., Sauer, S., Kleijnen, J., Pandis, N., Ioannidis, J., Johnson, T. and Schmidt, S. (2022). Most healthcare interventions tested in Cochrane Reviews are not effective according to high quality evidence: a systematic review and meta-analysis, Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2022.04.017.
Johnson, T. (2021). Free to Decide: The Positive Moral Right to Reproductive Choice According to the Capabilities Approach, Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, 31(3): 303-326.
Johnson, T. (2021). A Trade-Off: Antimicrobial Resistance and COVID-19, Bioethics, https://doi.org/10.1111/bioe.12928.
Johnson, T. (2021). Enhancing the Collectivist Critique: Individualist and Collectivist Accounts in the Human Enhancement Debate, Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11019-021-10030-7.
Johnson, T., Shaffer, J., Abdool Karim, S., and Faure, M. (editors) (forthcoming). Coercing for Public Health: (When) Is Coercion Ethically Justified? Monash Bioethics Review. Call for papers available at: https://link.springer.com/journal/40592/updates/25340124
Johnson, T. (editor) (2024). Antimicrobial Resistance and Social Justice, Monash Bioethics Review 41(1), https://link.springer.com/journal/40592/volumes-and-issues/42-1/supplement
Johnson, T., Abdool Karim, S., Faure, M., and Shaffer, J. (2025). Coercing for public health: (When) is coercion ethically justified? Monash Bioethics Review, https://doi.org/10.1007/s40592-025-00243-4 [editorial article.]
Abdool Karim, S., Smith, M.J., Silva, D.S., Faure, M., Woskie, L., Nyirenda, D., Heath, C., Porta, V., Jones, J., Regmi, S., Isaac, M., Shaffer, J., and Johnson, T. (2025). Coercing for Public Health: Reflections on the role of coercion in public health emergencies. Monash Bioethics Review, https://doi.org/10.1007/s40592-025-00245-2 [conference proceedings.]
Johnson, T. (2024). Systemic intervention can be intrusive, too: a reply to Paetkau, Journal of Medical Ethics, https://doi.org/10.1136/jme-2024-110055.
Johnson, T. (2024). Is Resource Allocation that is Sensitive to Vaccination Status Coercive? Who Cares? American Journal of Bioethics, https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2024.2353808.
Johnson, T. (2023). Considering the Collective in Ethical Decision-Making Concerning Non-Medical Uses of Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing, American Journal of Bioethics 23(3): 23-25, https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2023.2169390.
Johnson, T. (2020) In Defense of Heritable Human Genome Editing: On the Geneva Statement by Andorno et al. Trends in Biotechnology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tibtech.2020.11.002.
Lowe, T., Massie, R., Lowe, K., Goodenough, T., Graham, M., Savić Kallesøe, S., Sahan, K., Johnson, T., Savić, L., & Sheehan, M. (2023) Shaping Data Ethics: A Young People’s Deliberative Forum: A Report, with Thames Valley VRU. Available at: https://www.tvvru.co.uk/resources/
Hardcastle, F., Ballard, L., Weller, S., Lyle, K., Horton, R., Thompson, R., Samuel, G., Valério de Paula Trindade, L., Gómez Urrego, J.D., Kochin, D., Johnson, T., Tatz-Wieder, N., Redrup, E., Robinson Adams, F.E., Eskandar, Y., Harriss, E., Tsosie, K., Dixon, P., Nightingale, L., Mackintosh, M., and Lucassen, A. (2022) Ethical, Legal and Social Issues in Diversifying Data: Literature review and synthesis, for Genomics England. Available at: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/myjtd/
Johnson, T. (2022). The ethics of human genomic enhancement: a framework for public health policy. Doctoral thesis presented to the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford. Available at: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:a72c18d7-8f67-4bd6-8141-9235dc56bbe9
Anomaly, J. and Johnson, T. (2023). Genetic enhancement: key concepts and future prospects, in F. Jotterand and M. Ienca (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Human Enhancement, London: Routledge Press.
Johnson, T. (2023). Genetic immunization: enhancement, or public health measure? in S. Hostiuc (ed.), Clinical Ethics at the Crossroads of Genetic and Reproductive Technologies, Amsterdam: Elsevier (2nd edn.).
Johnson, T. (2022). L’amélioration génétique, une question de justice, in C. Peytour and J. Davidoux (eds., trans.), 22 Penseurs pour 2022, Paris: Philosophie Magazine: pp. 139-143.
Johnson, T. and Giubilini, A. (2021). Genetic immunisation, in D. Edmonds (ed.), Future Morality, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Johnson, T., and Giubilini, A. (2024). “The Fruits of Moral Disagreement: Conversations and Questions from the Inaugural Ethox-Uehiro Workshop on Moral Disagreement” Practical Ethics Blog, publication date 20/06/2024. Available at: https://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2024/06/the-fruits-of-moral-disagreement-conversations-and-questions-from-the-inaugural-ethox-uehiro-workshop-on-moral-disagreement/
Giubilini, A., Frampton, S., Johnson, T., and Matlock, W. (2024). "Communication, Narratives, and Antimicrobial Resistance." Oxford Medical Humanities Blog, publication date 24/05/2024. Available at: https://torch.ox.ac.uk/article/communication-narratives-and-antimicrobial-resistance
Johnson, T. (2023). "Stopping the Superbugs: We are heading for a public health crisis more devastating than the Covid pandemic. There is still time to act." New Humanist, publication date 17/08/2023, Autumn issue. Promotional material available at: https://newhumanist.org.uk/articles/6156/the-future-needs-you-new-humanists-autumn-2023-issue-is-out-now
Johnson, T. (2022). “Cause Exploration Prize: Antimicrobial Resistance”, Effective Altruism Forum, publication date 11/08/2022. Accessible at: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/SxYoZGXbrQ3XGvpLY/cause-exploration-prize-antimicrobial-resistance
Johnson, T. (2022). “Il miglioramento genetico umano potrebbe diventare presto realizzabile – ma dove tracceremo il limite?”, Vismara, L. (transl.), Nessun Dogma, publication date 30/01/2022.
Johnson, T. (2021). "Playground Politics, or Primer For Inaction? Sammy J could be a "nudge" toward political complacency", ABC Religion & Ethics, published 30/08/2021. Accessible at: https://www.abc.net.au/religion/is-sammy-j-nudging-us-toward-political-complacency/13519750?fbclid=IwAR1bYtImDd89QnCq4orYBcCAkpSCOa4CN01byB222z5A3DYAtHHPkGn8aAg
Johnson, T. (2021). “Special St Cross Seminar Summary of Maureen Kelley’s: Fighting Diseases of Poverty Through Research: Deadly dilemmas, moral distress and misplaced responsibilities”, Oxford Uehiro Centre: Practical Ethics Blog, publication date 26/05/2021. Accessible at: http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2021/05/special-st-cross-seminar-summary-of-maureen-kelleys-fighting-diseases-of-poverty-through-research-deadly-dilemmas-moral-distress-and-misplaced-responsibilities/#more-15251
Johnson, T. (2019). “Human genetic enhancement might soon be possible – but where do we draw the line?”, The Conversation, published 03/12/19. Accessible at: https://theconversation.com/human-genetic-enhancement-might-soon-be-possible-but-where-do-we-draw-the-line-127406