3025.1 The Ethics of Research in Public Health

Monday, November 8, 2010: 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Oral
This session examines the appropriate practice and regulation of research protocols and related activities in public health. It explores the question of whether social justice as well as other ethical objectives can be served by existing research regulations, including the requirement of informed consent and the oversight of IRBs.
Session Objectives: 1. Identify the boundaries of research in public health; identify the human subject ethical protections necessary in public health research; 2. Define the role of IRBs and informed consent in public health research; 3. Compare cultural attitudes that affect public health research design and implementation.
Moderator:
Kathleen Powderly, PhD

8:30am
Institutional Review Boards as Guardians of Social Justice in Health Research
Patricia M. Alt, PhD
     
8:50am
Taking it to the Community: Increasing knowledge and skills about human subjects protections and the IRB process for community partners engaged in research
Patricia Jean Piechowski, MPH, MSW, MA and Stephanie Solomon, PhD
  
9:10am
Challenges to the development of the ethical review of human subject research in Japan
Masaaki Nakashima, MPhil and Betty Wolder Levin, PhD
  
9:30am
Infusing social justice into the science of health equity: Innovative evaluative frameworks
Hector Balcazar, MS, PhD and Holly Mata, MS, LSC
  

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Ethics SPIG

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)

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