International Research Ethics
Module leads
Learning objectives:
- To have an understanding of global health research ethics including competing theoretical and regulatory approaches to research ethics;
- To be able to explain the limitations, including areas of ambiguity, controversy and gaps of these ethical approaches and the tensions within and between them for practical ethical decision-making in global health research;
- To be able to apply these approaches to cases and to be able to develop and articulate reasoned judgments about what constitutes ethical research practice;
- To be aware of the importance of understanding research ethics in context and the social dimensions of research;
- To be aware and understand the ethical issues involved in conducting research involving ‘vulnerable’ populations;
- To be aware and understand the ethical challenges new technologies are presenting in global health;
- To understand and engage with the ethical issues relating to conducting research on infectious diseases in population health and in the global context;
- To understand and be able to reflect on the ethical dimension of conducting research using large genomics datasets;
- To understand and reflect on the ethical implications of conducting collaborative research;
- To understand and be able to reflect on the environmental impact of global health research;
- To be aware of and be able to debate the key ethical controversies and practical ethical challenges of data-sharing and data-driven approaches to research in population health.
Sessions:
- Introducing research ethics
- Ethics of infectious diseases in the global context
- Ethics of involving vulnerable populations in research in the global health
- Ethic of new technologies
- Ethics of large scale genomics research
- Ethics of data sharing in global health research
- The environmental impact of global health research
- Consolidation