Bioethics Information and Resources - Fogarty International Center @ NIH
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
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
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
from 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 grantsFogarty news, June 4, 2014
Supporting International Research Ethics and Education – An Inter-American Bioethics Collaboration
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
blog.Bioethics.gov, February 25, 2014
Fogarty bioethics grantees discuss lessons learned
Fogarty news, January 22, 2014
Related Fogarty News and Information
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 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
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
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
Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues
blog.Bioethics.gov - the blog of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues
National Bioethics Advisory Commission
Other Online Resources
Global Forum on Bioethics in Research (GFBR)
Contact Joe Millum at Joseph.Millum@nih.gov with questions, corrections or suggestions.