Bioethics news, resources and funding for global health researchers

Fogarty aims to strengthen research bioethics expertise in developing countries by providing resources and information to bioethicists, research ethics committee members, researchers, students, and everyone else involved in international health research. In keeping with its wider commitment to building the capacity to conduct research in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), Fogarty believes it is important to build in-country bioethics capacity. This enables local ethics review of research, improves research into the distinctive ethical problems in LMICs, and increases the representation of different voices in on-going global discussions of the ethics of health research.

Bioethics Resources

• For Teachers and Students - teaching tools, career path advice, and online education information
• For Investigators and Ethics Committees - regulations, guidelines, practical aids, committee information
• For Bioethics Researchers - journals and granting agencies
• Bioethics Materials in Other Languages - networks, trainings, journals, and guidelines and regulations in a variety of languages
  

Video: How to develop a bioethics research proposal - Drs. Annette Rid and Robert Steel from the Department of Bioethics at the NIH Clinical Center off guidance on how to develop a research proposal for one of the Department’s programs aimed at training the next generation of bioethics researchers.

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COVID-19 Bioethics Resources

• Coronavirus bioethics resources for researchers

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Recent Bioethics News

• Empowering local research ethics review of antibacterial mass administration research, Fogarty grantee Nelson K. Sewankambo co-author
  Infectious Diseases of Poverty, September 28, 2022
• Ethics guidance on issues raised by the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic
  Orientación ética sobre cuestiones planteadas por la pandemia del nuevo coronavirus (COVID-19)
  Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), March 18, 2020
  
• Conducting ethical data science research in Africa
  Sep / Oct 2020 Global Health Matters
• Q&A with Nandini Kumar,member of WHO’s Strategic Initiative for Developing Capacity in Ethical Review Steering Committee
  Sep / Oct 2020 Global Health Matters
• Fogarty awards $5M for bioethics research training
  May / June 2020 Global Health Matters
  
• Conducting research in a pandemic raises thorny bioethics issues
  May / June 2020 Global Health Matters

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Related Fogarty News and Information

Photo courtesy of Florencia Luna

• A seat at the table: Diversifying voices in bioethics
• Bioethics researchers meet at NIH to reflect on the past, look to the future
• Expanding bioethics from community engagement to genetics in Uganda
• Bioethics program perseveres in wartime Ukraine

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NIH News and Resources

• NIH on Research Involving Human Subjects from the NIH Office of Extramural Research
• NIH Office of Clinical Research and Bioethics Policy from the NIH Office of Science Policy
• NIH Clinical Center Department of Bioethics
  
• National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) Bioethics Resources
• National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) Bioethics Resources
• National Library of Medicine (NLM) Bioethics Resources

Other US Government Resources

• Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) resources:
  
• International resources from the HHS Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP)
• Secretary's Advisory Committee on Human Research Protections (SACHRP)
  
• Archive: Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues 2009-2017

Other Online Resources

• Global Forum on Bioethics in Research (GFBR)
  
• Johns Hopkins University: PREVENT (Pregnancy Research Ethics for Vaccines, Epidemics, and New Technologies) Project
  
• TRUST Equitable Research Partnerships:
• Global code of conduct for research in resource-poor settings, available in English, as well as in other languages, including Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hindi, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish
• Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Ethics Network (PHEPREN):
  Led by WHO and supported by key partners including Fogarty/NIH. Currently focusing on the COVID-19 pandemic, offers resources, policy briefs, webinars and an ethics advisory platform.
• Free online course: Strengthening Stakeholder Engagement Through Ethics Review - HIV Prevention Trials - Register through their portal to gain free access to online, on-demand course from AVAC: Global Advocacy for HIV Prevention.
  

Updated October 4, 2023