Adam Ehlert is a PhD Student in Clinical Medical Ethics at Uppsala university, Sweden. He is working in the research project JUSTSEVERITY, investigating the notion of severity as a priority setting criterion in health care, with a particular focus on value theory, distributive justice, and the badness of death. His main research interests are medical ethics in general and questions of priority setting and distribution in particular, war ethics and the war-bioethics intersection, the ethics of punishment, and sports ethics.