Introduction to Informed Consent The primary aims of informed consent are to protect the research participant from misinformation, exploitation and coercion. This course offers an introduction to the processes and wider factors which need to be taken into consideration when involving participants in clinical research.
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Essential Elements of Ethics Protocol authors should address certain ethical issues in the design of studies and document their rationale in a section of the protocol that will be easily understood by review boards and investigators. This eLearning resource will guide the development of a dedicated “Ethics section” of the protocol in which Essential Elements are addressed. This online resource will assist clinical researchers as they write their study protocol to recognize and address common ethical challenges in clinical trials, and ethics committee members as they review and analyse clinical trial protocols in an efficient and comprehensive manner.
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Research in Global Health Emergencies: Ethical Issues Emergencies are particularly challenging contexts in which to conduct health-related research – while research norms and standards remain important, applying these appropriately in exceptional circumstances needs careful and nuanced consideration. Based on a Nuffield Council on Bioethics report, this course explores core ethical issues that arise during research in global health emergencies, and highlights how they sometimes go beyond those covered in traditional research frameworks.
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Ethics in Epidemics, Emergencies and Disasters: Research, Surveillance and Patient Care A comprehensive exploration of the wide range of ethical issues faced by health professionals and policy makers working in the context of epidemics/pandemics and disaster situations, focusing primarily on the key areas of research, surveillance and patient care.
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Ethics Review of Social Research on Health-Related Topics Increasingly biomedical ethics committees are being asked to review applications to conduct social research (SR) on health-related topics. As with medical research, SR can involve risks of harm as well as potential benefits that need to be assessed in an ethics review process. However, these risks and benefits can be different from those in medical research. Ethics review of SR should be sensitive to how ethical issues in social research depart from the so-called ‘medical model’ of review.
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The Practice and Ethics of Participatory Visual Methods for Community Engagement in Public Health and Health Science If children and young people are not given the opportunity of taking part in research, it is very difficult to obtain the evidence needed to improve the health services provided for them. This course aims to give researchers and members of ethics committees confidence in thinking through the challenges of carrying out research with children and young people.
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Ethics of Ancillary Care in Research Ancillary care is healthcare that research participants need but that is not required by to answer the researchers’ scientific question or to avoid or mitigate harm resulting from participation in the research. This course covers the main ethical questions associated with providing or facilitating ancillary care, including the various philosophical approaches to establishing whether or not researchers have ancillary care obligations.
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Ethics and Best Practices in Sharing Individual-level Research Data Research funders, regulators and researchers are increasingly calling for the sharing of individual-level data from biomedical and public health research. This introductory course aims to describe the potential benefits and risks of sharing data, discusses the ethical challenges involved and proposed best practices insharing research data.
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Introduction to Reviewing Genomic Research This introductory course provides an overview of how genomic research differs from other research, and the specific ethical issues to consider when conducting an ethics review of this research.
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What is Open Science? Open Science is a scientific activity practiced in an open, collaborative and transparent way in all knowledge domains, from fundamental science to social and human sciences. This course presents the concept of open science, as well as the reasons and advantages of practicing open science. This course is aimed at students, researchers and the general public.
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Open Access Open Access refers to the practice of making research publications freely available to the public so that anyone can read and use them. It can also come in the form of reusing content shared by other researchers. This course aims to help you understand a little more about the main concepts, historic milestones, different forms of applications, and various initiatives both on the international scene and Brazilian experiences of Open Access. This course is aimed at students, researchers and the general public.
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