Back to Annual Meeting Page		American Public Health Association 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition December 10-14, 2005 Philadelphia, PA

Abstract #108096

Dianne Quigley, PhD Candidate, Religion Dept., Syracuse University, 501 Hall of Languages, Syracuse, NY 13244, 315-443-3861, diquigle@syr.edu

Developing an understanding of research ethics and cross-cultural communities has been a longstanding challenge in the field of research ethics. Difficult issues emerge about community and individual rights, conflicts in values and world views and different processes of knowledge production and uses. This presentation will offer a discussion of various case studies in the field of environmentaland community health and environmental sustainability that have been performed with an indigenous science philosophy and ethics. Indigenous science and ethics offers a different approach to knowledge production and research and teaches the ethics of relatedness and respect in community relationships, as well as the merging of subjective and objective meanings in research design, collection and outcomes. Through the evidence of recent published case studies, one can see the beneficial impacts of these indigenous ethical research approaches and the value they have to mainstream community and health research.

Learning Objectives:

• Participants will learn about research ethics in the cross-cultural context of Native (indigenous) science and its applications to mainstream community research practices.
• Participants will be informed of aspects of subjectivity and objectivity in an indigenous research model and its ethical implications.
• Participants will review case study material in this field and engage in a dialogue about a cross-cultural research ethical model that can accomodate multiple definitions of knowledge and knowledge production.

Keywords: Ethics Training, Indigenous Populations

Related Web page: www.researchethics.org

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

I wish to disclose that I have NO financial interests or other relationship with the manufactures of commercial products, suppliers of commercial services or commercial supporters.