Bioethics Information and Resources

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

Top Bioethics News

• Statement on claim of first gene-edited babies by Chinese researcher by NIH Director Dr. Francis S. Collins
  NIH news, November 28, 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
• Compilation of European GDPR Guidances
  HHS Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP), July 24, 2018
• Building bioethics capacity: the Johns Hopkins Fogarty African Bioethics Consortium
  Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health blog, July 6, 2018
• Global code of conduct for research in resource-poor settings, available in Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hindi, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish
  TRUST Equitable Research Partnerships, May 2018
• Proceedings from the Global Forum on Bioethics in Research (GFBR)'s “Ethics of Research in Pregnancy” meeting
  Supplement to Reproductive Health, December 14, 2017
• Q and A with Dr Peter Singer of Grand Challenges Canada on innovation, bioethics
  Jul / Aug 2017 Global Health Matters
• WHO guidelines on ethical issues in public health surveillance
  WHO, July 2017
• Related publication: Ethics of public health surveillance: new guidelines
  The Lancet Public Health, June 27, 2017 (online)
• Report: Pregnant Women and the Zika Virus Vaccine Research Agenda: Ethics Guidance on Priorities, Inclusion, and Evidence Generation
  Pregnancy Research Ethics for Vaccines, Epidemics and New Technologies (PREVENT) project, June 2017
• Final rule enhances protections for research participants, modernizes oversight system
  HHS news, January 18, 2017
• Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects
  Federal Register, January 19, 2017
• Fogarty program develops bioethics expertise in Uganda
  Sep / Oct 2016 Global Health Matters
• Grantee news: Data indicate significant impact of NIH African bioethics training programs
  Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics news, Oct 31, 2016
• Related publication: Bioethics training programmes for Africa: evaluating professional and bioethics-related achievements of African trainees after a decade of Fogarty NIH investment
  BMJ Open, September 15, 2016
• New grants will help develop expertise in research ethics
  Jul / Aug 2016 Global Health Matters
• Single IRB policy to streamline reviews of multi-site research
  NIH news, June 21, 2016
• NIH Policy on the Use of a Single Institutional Review Board for Multi-Site Research [PDF], updated June 2016
• E-book: Public Health Ethics: Cases Spanning the Globe
  from Springer International Publishing, 2016
• Research Involving Human Subjects from NIH
• Human subjects information for NIH training grants and NIH foreign awards
• Ethics of Research in Pregnancy from the Global Forum on Bioethics in Research (GFBR)
  November 3 - 4, 2016
  Buenos Aires, Argentina
  By application only. Applications closed.
• Global Forum for Bioethics in Research 2015 Meeting Report and Presentations
• New publication: Doing Global Science: A Guide to Responsible Conduct in the Global Research Enterprise
  from the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP), Princeton University Press, February 2016
• International Compilation of Human Research Standards (2016 Edition)
  Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP), U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS)
• HHS announces proposed changes to Common Rule
  Sep / Oct 2015 Global Health Matters
• Ethics education tools for professors, instructors, practitioners and the public [Archive]
  Archive of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues
• Valuing Stillbirths, co-authored by Fogarty staff
  Bioethics, July 2015, published online November 14, 2014
• Funding: Ethics and Regulatory capacities
  from the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP)
  Application deadline: September 26, 2015
• Ethics and Ebola: Public Health Planning and Response [Archive]
  Archive of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, released February 26, 2015
• Journal article: International Research Ethics Education, co-authored by Fogarty staff
  JAMA, February 3, 2015
• Chinese and U.S. researchers see need for earlier training in research ethics
  AAAS news, October 21, 2014
• Research Ethics in Africa, by Mariana Kruger, Paul Ndebele, Lyn Horn
  A free e-book for research ethics committee members, authors include Fogarty bioethics trainees
• Fogarty awards four 2014 bioethics grants
  Fogarty news, June 4, 2014
• Supporting International Research Ethics and Education – An Inter-American Bioethics Collaboration [Archive]
  Archive of blog.Bioethics.gov, May 2, 2014
• Ethics of Clinical Research: Multinational Research and Capacity Building, a collection of papers on Fogarty bioethics grantees and trainees
  Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, December 2013 and April 2014 issues
• Fogarty-supported Global Forum for Bioethics in Research: Past, present and future
  South African Journal of Bioethics and Law, May 2014
• Bioethics in research: strengthening the foundation
  Opinion by Fogarty Director Dr Roger I Glass
  Mar / Apr 2014 Global Health Matters
• Anticipating and Communicating Through Education [Archive]
  Archive of blog.Bioethics.gov, February 25, 2014
• Fogarty bioethics grantees discuss lessons learned
  Fogarty news, January 22, 2014

• The 50th Anniversary of the Declaration of Helsinki: Progress but Many Remaining Challenges
  JAMA, November 27, 2013
  co-authored by Fogarty's Dr. Joseph Millum
• The ethics of placebo-controlled trials: Methodological justifications
  Contemporary Clinical Trials, November 2013
• Fogarty awards 2013 bioethics grants
  Fogarty news, August 19, 2013
• Examining ethics in study recruitment manipulation
  May / Jun 2013 Global Health Matters
• Focus on Bioethics
  Nov / Dec 2011 Global Health Matters
• Bioethics: protecting lives in service to research
• Bioethics takes root in Nigeria
• Trainee to teacher: Leveraging bioethics learning in India
• NIH Common Fund supports bioethics study, training

• 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
• NIH Clinical Center International Training Programs
• National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) Bioethics Resources
• National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) Bioethics Resources
• National Library of Medicine (NLM) Bioethics 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) at HHS
• Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues [Archive]
• blog.Bioethics.gov [Archive] - Archive of the blog of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues
• National Bioethics Advisory Commission

• Global Forum on Bioethics in Research (GFBR)
• 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

Contact Joe Millum at Joseph.Millum@nih.gov with questions, corrections or suggestions.