Publications ✦

AI EthicsHealth DataPublic Health

Closing the AI benefits gap: Systems design for population health equity

Morley, J., & Floridi, L.

Public Health

Getting Regulatory Sandboxes Right

Novelli, C., Hacker, P., McDougall, S., Morley, J., Rotolo, A., & Floridi, L.

European Journal of Risk Regulation

Preprint★ First Author

Whose Knowledge Counts? Epistemic Capture and the Power to Define the Function of Data-Driven Health

Morley, J.

SSRN

Health DataAI Ethics

2025(14 papers)

Agentic AI Optimisation (AAIO)

Floridi, L., Buttaboni, C., Hine, E., Morley, J., Novelli, C., & Schroder, T.

arXiv

An App a Day will (Probably Not) Keep the Doctor Away

Morley, J., Laitila, J., Ross, J. S., et al.

Minds and Machines

Digital HealthAI Ethics

AI EthicsNHS PolicyRegulation

Beyond techno-optimism: Four critical limitations in the UK's AI policy for health care

Morley, J., Kerasidou, X., Kerasidou, A., Sekalala, S., & Daly, A.

BJGP

NHS PolicyDigital HealthPublic Health

Can a digital NHS be equitable?

Morley, J., Barry, E., & Hiam, L.

BMJ

Cyber Risks to Next-Gen Brain-Computer Interfaces

Schroder, T., Sirbu, R., Park, S., Morley, J., et al.

Neuroethics

AI EthicsHealth DataPublic Health

Global Health in the Age of AI

Morley, J., Hine, E., Roberts, H., et al.

Minds and Machines

Book Chapter★ First Author

Healthcare and Well-being

Morley, J.

A Companion to Digital Ethics

Digital HealthAI Ethics

How to read a paper involving artificial intelligence (AI)

Dijkstra, P., Greenhalgh, T., Mekki, Y. M., & Morley, J.

BMJ Medicine

AI EthicsClinical Trials

Red Reading The Text

Floridi, L., Morley, J., & Novelli, C.

Philosophy & Technology

Regulating Next-Generation Implantable Brain-Computer Interfaces

Sirbu, R., Morley, J., Schroder, T., et al.

arXiv

The Effects of AI on Street-Level Bureaucracy

Gillingham, C., Morley, J., & Floridi, L.

Digital Society

Book Chapter★ First Author

The Ethics of AI in Healthcare: An Updated Mapping Review

Morley, J., & Floridi, L.

Ethics and Medical Technology

What Kind of Reasoning (if any) is an LLM actually doing?

Floridi, L., Morley, J., Novelli, C., & Watson, D.

arXiv

Who is an AI Ethicist? An empirical study of expertise, skills, and profiles to build a competency framework

Cocchiaro, M. Z., Morley, J., Novelli, C., Panai, E., Tartaro, A., & Floridi, L.

AI and Ethics

2024(23 papers)

A Robust Governance for the AI Act

Novelli, C., Hacker, P., Morley, J., Trondal, J., & Floridi, L.

European Journal of Risk Regulation

Availability of results of clinical trials registered on EU Clinical Trials Register

DeVito, N. J., Morley, J., Smith, J. A., Drysdale, H., Goldacre, B., & Heneghan, C.

BMJ Medicine

Clinical Trials

Barriers and best practices to improving clinical trials transparency

DeVito, N. J., Morley, J., & Goldacre, B.

Health Policy

Clinical Trials

Building infrastructure is key to unifying UK health data

Morley, J., & Rocher, L.

BMJ

Clinical coding of long COVID in primary care

Henderson, A. D., et al.

eClinicalMedicine

COVID-19Digital Health

COVID-19 and Mental Illnesses in Vaccinated and Unvaccinated People

Walker, V. M., et al.

JAMA Psychiatry

Effectiveness of mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines as First Booster Doses

Horne, E. M. F., et al.

Epidemiology

Impact of COVID-19 on recorded blood pressure screening

Wiedemann, M., Speed, V., et al.

Open Heart

COVID-19Digital Health

COVID-19OpenSAFELYHealth Data

Impact of long COVID on health-related quality-of-life: An OpenSAFELY population cohort study using patient-reported outcome measures (OpenPROMPT)

Carlile, O., Briggs, A., Henderson, A. D., Butler-Cole, B. F. C., Tazare, J., Tomlinson, L. A., Marks, M., Jit, M., Lin, L.-Y., Bates, C., Parry, J., Bacon, S. C. J., Dillingham, I., Dennison, W. A., Costello, R. E., Walker, A. J., Hulme, W., Goldacre, B., Mehrkar, A., … Eggo, R. M.

The Lancet Regional Health - Europe

Incidence of diabetes after SARS-CoV-2 infection

Taylor, K., Eastwood, S., Walker, V., et al.

The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology

Promising algorithms to perilous applications

Oddy, C., Zhang, J., Morley, J., & Ashrafian, H.

BMJ Health & Care Informatics

Regulation by Design

Prifti, K., Morley, J., Novelli, C., & Floridi, L.

Minds and Machines

Selling NHS patient data

Morley, J., Hamilton, N., & Floridi, L.

BMJ

Editorial

The NHS founding principles are still appropriate today and provide a strong foundation for the future

Crisp, N., Bamrah, J., Morley, J., Augst, C., & Patel, K.

BMJ

NHS PolicyPublic Health

Transforming Cardiovascular Care With Artificial Intelligence

Khera, R., Oikonomou, E. K., Nadkarni, G. N., Morley, J. R., Wiens, J., Butte, A. J., & Topol, E. J.

JACC

Trends in weight gain recorded in English primary care

Samuel, M., et al.

PLOS Medicine

Editorial

Unlocking NHS data requires public trust

Crider, C., Morley, J., & Bramall-Stainer, K.

BMJ

Weight trends among adults with diabetes or hypertension

Samuel, M., et al.

BJGP

During the COVID-19 pandemic 20,000 prostate cancer diagnoses were missed

Lemanska, A., et al.

BJU International

A Justifiable Investment in AI for Healthcare

Karpathakis, K., Morley, J., & Floridi, L.

Minds and Machines

Challenges in estimating effectiveness of 2 doses

Horne, E. M. F., et al.

American Journal of Epidemiology

NHS national data opt-outs

Tazare, J., Henderson, A. D., Morley, J., et al.

BJGP Open

OpenSAFELY: A platform for analysing electronic health records

Nab, L., Schaffer, A. L., et al.

Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety

2023(23 papers)

Artificial intelligence regulation in the United Kingdom

Roberts, H., Babuta, A., Morley, J., et al.

Internet Policy Review

App store governance: Implications, limitations, and regulatory responses

Cowls, J., Morley, J., & Floridi, L.

Telecommunications Policy

COVID-19Public HealthOpenSAFELY

Changes in COVID-19-related mortality across key demographic and clinical subgroups

Nab, L., Parker, E. P. K., et al.

The Lancet Public Health

Changes in medication safety indicators in England throughout the covid-19 pandemic

Fisher, L., Hopcroft, L. E., Rodgers, S., et al.

BMJ Medicine

Comparative effectiveness of BNT162b2 versus mRNA-1273 covid-19 vaccine boosting

Hulme, W. J., et al.

BMJ

Ethnic differences in the indirect effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on clinical monitoring and hospitalisations for non-COVID conditions in England

Costello, R. E., Tazare, J., Piehlmaier, D., Herrett, E., Parker, E. P. K., Zheng, B., Mansfield, K. E., Henderson, A. D., Carreira, H., Bidulka, P., Wong, A. Y. S., Warren-Gash, C., Hayes, J. F., Quint, J. K., MacKenna, B., Mehrkar, A., Eggo, R. M., Katikireddi, S. V., Tomlinson, L., … Quint, J.

eClinicalMedicine

First dose COVID-19 vaccine coverage amongst adolescents

Hopcroft, L. E., Curtis, H. J., et al.

Wellcome Open Research

Generative AI for medical research

Morley, J., DeVito, N. J., & Zhang, J.

BMJ

AI EthicsClinical Trials

Governing artificial intelligence in China and the European Union

Roberts, H., Cowls, J., Hine, E., Morley, J., et al.

The Information Society

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on antipsychotic prescribing

Macdonald, O., et al.

BMJ Mental Health

Mapping and evaluating national data flows

Zhang, J., Morley, J., Gallifant, J., et al.

The Lancet Digital Health

AI EthicsNHS PolicyHealth Data

Thesis★ First Author

On designing an algorithmically enhanced NHS

Morley, J.

University of Oxford

Operationalising AI ethics

Morley, J., Kinsey, L., Elhalal, A., Garcia, F., Ziosi, M., & Floridi, L.

AI & Society

Patient and public involvement within epidemiological studies of long COVID

Routen, A., et al.

Nature Medicine

Protocol for an OpenSAFELY cohort study (OpenPROMPT)

Herrett, E., et al.

BMJ Open

Trends, variation, and clinical characteristics of recipients of antiviral drugs

Green, A. C. A., Curtis, H. J., et al.

BMJ Medicine

A controversial new federated data platform for the NHS in England

Morley, J., & Zhang, J.

BMJ

Challenges in estimating waning effectiveness

Horne, E. M. F., et al.

Epidemiology

COVID-19Public HealthOpenSAFELY

Clinical and health inequality risk factors for non-COVID-related sepsis

Zhong, X., et al.

eClinicalMedicine

Eleven key measures for monitoring general practice clinical activity during COVID-19

Fisher, L., Curtis, H. J., Croker, R., et al.

eLife

Book Chapter

Saving Human Lives and Rights

Hine, E., Morley, J., Taddeo, M., & Floridi, L.

The 2022 Yearbook of the Digital Governance Research Group

AI EthicsHealth Data

OpenSAFELY NHS Service Restoration Observatory 2

Curtis, H. J., MacKenna, B., Wiedemann, M., Fisher, L., Croker, R., Morton, C. E., et al.

British Journal of General Practice

Preprint★ First Author

Foundation Models Are Exciting, but They Should Not Disrupt the Foundations of Caring

Morley, J., & Floridi, L.

SSRN

2022(16 papers)

Comparison of methods for predicting COVID-19-related death

The OpenSAFELY Collaborative, Williamson, E. J., et al.

Diagnostic and Prognostic Research

Comparative effectiveness of ChAdOx1 versus BNT162b2

Hulme, W. J., et al.

BMJ

Comparative effectiveness of BNT162b2 versus mRNA-1273 boosting (preprint)

Hulme, W. J., et al.

Epidemiology

Describing the population experiencing COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough

The OpenSAFELY Collaborative, Green, A., et al.

BMC Medicine

AI EthicsHealth DataNHS Policy

Governing Data and AI for Health Care

Morley, J., Murphy, L., Mishra, A., Joshi, I., & Karpathakis, K.

JMIR Formative Research

Identifying Patterns of Clinical Interest in Clinicians' Treatment Preferences

MacKenna, B., Curtis, H. J., et al.

JMIR Medical Informatics

OpenSAFELY NHS Service Restoration Observatory 1

Curtis, H. J., MacKenna, B., Croker, R., Inglesby, P., Walker, A. J., Morley, J., et al.

British Journal of General Practice

Potentially inappropriate prescribing of DOACs

Fisher, L., Speed, V., Curtis, H. J., et al.

Thrombosis Research

Recording of 'COVID-19 vaccine declined'

Curtis, H. J., Inglesby, P., MacKenna, B., Croker, R., Hulme, W. J., Rentsch, C. T., Bhaskaran, K., Mathur, R., Morton, C. E., Bacon, S. C., Smith, R. M., Evans, D., Mehrkar, A., Tomlinson, L., Walker, A. J., Bates, C., Hickman, G., Ward, T., Morley, J., … Goldacre, B.

Eurosurveillance

Software development skills for health data researchers

Morton, C., Devito, N., Morley, J., et al.

BMJ Health & Care Informatics

Health DataOpenSAFELY

The ethics of algorithms

Tsamados, A., Aggarwal, N., Cowls, J., Morley, J., et al.

AI & Society

Trends and clinical characteristics of COVID-19 vaccine recipients

Curtis, H. J., Inglesby, P., Morton, C. E., MacKenna, B., Green, A., Hulme, W., Walker, A. J., Morley, J., Mehrkar, A., Bacon, S., et al.

British Journal of General Practice

Waning effectiveness of BNT162b2 and ChAdOx1 covid-19 vaccines

Horne, E. M. F., Hulme, W. J., et al.

BMJ

Book Chapter

App Store Governance: The Implications and Limitations of Duopolistic Dominance

Cowls, J., & Morley, J.

The 2021 Yearbook of the Digital Ethics Lab

Report

Better, Broader, Safer: Using Health Data for Research and Analysis

Goldacre, B., & Morley, J.

UK Government commissioned review

Study protocol: Comparison of different risk prediction modelling approaches

The OpenSAFELY Collaborative, Williamson, E. J., et al.

Wellcome Open Research

2021(11 papers)

Preprint★ First Author

Towards a framework for evaluating the safety, acceptability and efficacy of AI systems for health

Morley, J., Morton, C., Karpathakis, K., Taddeo, M., & Floridi, L.

arXiv

COVID-19 Vaccine Passports

Hine, E., Morley, J., Taddeo, M., & Floridi, L.

SSRN

COVID-19AI Ethics

Ethics as a Service

Morley, J., Elhalal, A., Garcia, F., Kinsey, L., Mökander, J., & Floridi, L.

Minds and Machines

Ethics-Based Auditing of Automated Decision-Making Systems

Mökander, J., Morley, J., Taddeo, M., & Floridi, L.

Science and Engineering Ethics

Book Chapter★ First Author

How to Design a Governable Digital Health Ecosystem

Morley, J., & Floridi, L.

The 2020 Yearbook of the Digital Ethics Lab

AI EthicsNHS PolicyDigital Health

Safeguarding European values with digital sovereignty

Roberts, H., Cowls, J., Casolari, F., Morley, J., Taddeo, M., & Floridi, L.

Internet Policy Review

Health DataDigital Health

Digital phenotyping and sensitive health data

Perez-Pozuelo, I., Spathis, D., Gifford-Moore, J., Morley, J., & Cowls, J.

JAMIA

An Empathy Imitation Game

Howick, J., Morley, J., & Floridi, L.

Minds and Machines

The Chinese approach to artificial intelligence

Roberts, H., Cowls, J., Morley, J., et al.

AI & Society

The ethical debate about the gig economy

Tan, Z. M., Aggarwal, N., Cowls, J., Morley, J., et al.

Technology in Society

Clinical coding of long COVID in English primary care

Walker, A. J., MacKenna, B., et al.

BJGP

2020(11 papers)

An ethically mindful approach to AI for health care

Morley, J., & Floridi, L.

The Lancet

Bringing NHS data analysis into the 21st century

Goldacre, B., et al. including Morley, J.

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

Digital Psychiatry: Risks and Opportunities for Public Health and Wellbeing

Burr, C., Morley, J., Taddeo, M., & Floridi, L.

IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society

Book Chapter

Empowerment or Engagement? Digital Health Technologies for Mental Healthcare

Burr, C., & Morley, J.

The 2019 Yearbook of the Digital Ethics Lab

Ethical guidelines for COVID-19 tracing apps

Morley, J., Cowls, J., Taddeo, M., & Floridi, L.

Nature

COVID-19AI Ethics

From What to How

Morley, J., Floridi, L., Kinsey, L., & Elhalal, A.

Science and Engineering Ethics

Public HealthDigital Health

Online Information of Vaccines

Ghezzi, P., et al. including Morley, J.

Frontiers in Medicine

Public Health in the Information Age

Morley, J., Cowls, J., Taddeo, M., & Floridi, L.

JMIR

Public HealthHealth Data

The ethics of AI in health care: A mapping review

Morley, J., Machado, C. C. V., Burr, C., Cowls, J., Joshi, I., Taddeo, M., & Floridi, L.

Social Science & Medicine

The Limits of Empowerment

Morley, J., & Floridi, L.

Science and Engineering Ethics

The poor performance of apps assessing skin cancer risk

Morley, J., Floridi, L., & Goldacre, B.

BMJ

2019(2 papers)

Enabling digital health companionship is better than empowerment

Morley, J., & Floridi, L.

The Lancet Digital Health