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

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COVID-19 Bioethics Resources and News

• 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.
• COVID-19 resources - Nuffield Council on Bioethics
• Pandemic ethics and social policy - University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Center for Bioethics
• News: COVID-19 vaccine trial ethics once we have efficacious vaccines, co-authored by Fogarty's Dr Joseph Millum
  Science, December 3, 2020
• News: New COVID-19 Law Lab to provide vital legal information and support for the global COVID-19 response
  WHO news, July 22, 2020
• COVID-19 Law Lab, a joint project of WHO, UNDP, UNAIDS, the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law and Georgetown University
• Guidance: English: Guidance and strategies to streamline ethics review and oversight of COVID-19 related research
  Spanish: Orientación y estrategias para agilizar la revisión y supervisión éticas de investigaciones relacionadas con COVID-19
  Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), updated April 10, 2020
• News: Guidance on COVID-19 human subjects protection
  HHS Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP), April 8, 2020
• News: FDA Guidance on Conduct of Clinical Trials of Medical Products during COVID-19 Public Health Emergency
  U.S. Food and Drug Administration, March 2020

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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
• Global Forum on Bioethics in Research 2018 conference proceedings: The ethics of data sharing and biobanking in health research [Open access]
  Wellcome Open Research, November 2019
• Building bioethics capacity: the Johns Hopkins Fogarty African Bioethics Consortium
  Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health blog, July 6, 2018
  

Related Fogarty News and Information

• 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
• Leveraging ethics to guide HIV research priorities and policy
  Q and A with Dr Jerome Singh
  Jul / Aug 2019 Global Health Matters
• Global Forum on Bioethics in Research holds its 2018 annual meeting on the ethics of data and sample sharing
  
• Note: Fogarty is a partner of the Global Forum on Bioethics in Research (GFBR)
  BMC On Medicine, December 13, 2018
  
• Health research priority setting: The duties of individual funders, co-authored by Fogarty staff scientist, Dr Joseph Millum
  The American Journal of Bioethics via PubMed, November 26, 2018
• Pregnant Women & Vaccines Against Emerging Epidemic Threats: Ethics Guidance for Preparedness, Research, and Response
  PREVENT Project, September 2018
  

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 November 4, 2022