Ethics & Human Research
- Ethics & Human Research
Ethical Criteria for Improved Human Subject Protections in Phase I Healthy Volunteer Trials
September-October 2022
Read the PostEthics & Human ResearchPhase I healthy volunteer trials test the safety and tolerability of investigational pharmaceuticals. In them, participants are exposed to study-drug risks without the possibility of direct medical benefit and typically must spend days or weeks in a residential research facility. Monetary payments a...Read the Post - Ethics & Human Research
Broad Consent—Are We Asking Enough?
September-October 2022
Read the PostEthics & Human ResearchBiobanks and health data repositories provide rich reservoirs of information for use in biomedical research. These repositories depend on participants donating identifiable health data and biospecimens that may be used in perpetuity by unlimited numbers of researchers for unnamed research topics. Si...Read the Post - Ethics & Human Research
An Expanded Role for IRBs in the Oversight of Research Biopsies
September-October 2022
Read the PostEthics & Human ResearchResearch biopsies included in cancer clinical trials have the goal of advancing scientific understanding of the biological bases of cancer and its treatments, but may offer no prospect of direct benefit to participants and often pose more than minimal risk. The research community is examining the et...Read the Post - Ethics & Human Research
Informed Consent for Placebo-Controlled
Trials: Do Ethics and Science Conflict?September-October 2022
Read the PostEthics & Human ResearchThe use of a placebo has been considered the best method for controlling bias in a prospective randomized clinical trial and provides the most rigorous test of treatment efficacy for evaluating a medical therapy. Placebos commonly produce clinically important effects particularly in studies where th...Read the Post - Ethics & Human Research
Developing and Implementing Electronic Consent Procedures in Response to Covid-19 Restrictions
July-August 2022
Read the PostEthics & Human ResearchThe Covid-19 pandemic resulted in unprecedented restrictions on many public, private, and workplace activities throughout the United States and elsewhere. When restrictions were imposed, we were conducting a type III hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial in 10 pediatric trauma centers. In respon...Read the Post - Ethics & Human Research
Privacy Risks in Microbiome Research:
Public Perspectives before and during a Global PandemicJuly-August 2022
Read the PostEthics & Human ResearchWe assessed public perspectives of microbiome research privacy risks before and after a nationwide emergency was declared in the United States regarding the Covid-19 pandemic. From January to July of 2020, we conducted an online survey of perceived privacy risks of microbiome research among U.S. adu...Read the Post - Ethics & Human Research
Perspectives from a Predominantly African
American Community about Biobank
Research and a Biobank Consent FormJuly-August 2022
Read the PostEthics & Human ResearchMinority populations have been underrepresented in clinical trials, as well as in research biobanks that are created to conduct research with participants’ biospecimens and related medical and research data. Biobank research raises issues about informed consent and privacy and the confidentiality ...Read the Post - Ethics & Human Research
Nothing about Us without Us: Inclusion and IRB Review of Mental Health Research Protocols
May-June 2022
Read the PostEthics & Human ResearchResearch on mental health and illness presents a variety of unique ethical challenges. This article argues that institutional review boards (IRBs) can improve their reviews of such research by including the perspectives of individuals with the condition under study either as members of the IRB or as...Read the Post
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Ethics & Human Research (formerly IRB: Ethics & Human Research) aims to foster critical analysis of issues in science and health care that have implications for human biomedical and behavioral research, including developments that bring new challenges to existing ethical, regulatory, and policy frameworks governing research with humans in the United States and elsewhere. Six issues of the research ethics journal are published each year, containing an assortment of commentaries, case studies, peer-reviewed scholarly articles, and book reviews.
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Karen Maschke, editor Laura Haupt, managing editor Julie Chibbaro, staff editor Nora Porter, art director | Editorial Board
Laura Beskow, PhD, MPH Vanderbilt University Barbara Bierer, MD Harvard University Alex Capron, LLB University of Southern California Stephanie Solomon Cargill, PhD St. Louis University Rebecca S. Dresser, JD, MS Washington University in St. Louis Carl Elliott, MD, PhD University of Minnesota Holly Fernandez Lynch, JD, MBE University of Pennsylvania Joseph J. Fins, MD Weill Cornell Medical College Paul Ford, PhD Cleveland Clinic Cristine Grady, MSN, PhD National Institutes of Health Clinical Center Steven Joffe, MD, MPH University of Pennsylvania Jonathan Kimmelman, PhD McGill University Nancy M. P. King, JD Wake Forest University Susan Lederer, PhD University of Wisconsin–Madison Alex John London, PhD Carnegie Mellon University Suzanne Rivera, PhD, MSW Case Western Reserve University Mark A. Rothstein, JD University of Louisville Laura Stark, PhD Vanderbilt University Jeremy Sugarman, MD, MPH, MA Johns Hopkins University Benjamin S. Wilfond, MD Seattle Children’s Research Institute |
ISSN 2578-2355 print; ISSN 2578-2363 online
Publisher: Wiley
Human Research Ethics
Human Subject Research Ethics
