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

• 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

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Related Fogarty News and Information

• Conducting ethical data science research in Africa
  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
• 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
  
• 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

• 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
• 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
  
• 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 September 2018
• E-book: Public Health Ethics: Cases Spanning the Globe
  from Springer International Publishing, 2016

• 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
• 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
• Supporting International Research Ethics and Education – An Inter-American Bioethics Collaboration [Archive]
  Archive of blog.Bioethics.gov, May 2, 2014
• Research ethics capacity building in Sub-Saharan Africa: a review of NIH Fogarty-funded programs 2000–2012
  JERHRE, April 2014
  
• Fogarty-supported Global Forum for Bioethics in Research: Past, present and future
  South African Journal of Bioethics and Law, May 2014
• Anticipating and Communicating Through Education [Archive]
  Archive of blog.Bioethics.gov, February 25, 2014
• Introduction: the Fogarty International Research Ethics Education and Curriculum Development Program in historical context
  JERHRE, December 2013

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) at HHS
• Archive: Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues 2009-2017
• Archive: National Bioethics Advisory Commission

Other Online Resources

• 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
• 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 April 28, 2022