Useful Links

Guide 1: Establishing bioethics committees. This guide is available in English, French and Spanish. It explains the steps required to actually create a national bioethics committee. Translations into Arabic, Chinese and Russian are in preparation.

Download English Version (PDF): https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000139309

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Guide 2: Bioethics committees at work: Procedures and policies. This guide is available in English. It explains the working methods and procedures to support the functioning of bioethics committees, once established. Translations into Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish are in preparation.

Download English Version (PDF): https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000147392

Global Forum on Bioethics in Research (GFBR)

https://www.gfbr.global/

Harvard Medical School (HMS) Center for Bioethics

https://bioethics.hms.harvard.edu/

HealthCare Ethics

http://www.ethicsweb.ca/resources/bioethics/institutes.html

HIV AIDS Vaccines Ethics Group (HAVEG – South Africa)

http://www.saavi.org.za/haveg/

HIV Prevention Trials Network | Ethics Working Group

https://www.hptn.org/about/ethics

Institute for Biomedical Ethics

https://ibmb.unibas.ch/en/home/

International Association of Bioethics

https://bioethicsinternational.org/

International Compilation of Human Research Standards 2023

https://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/international/compilation-human-research-standards/index.html

International Conference on Harmonisation (ICH)

https://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/international/compilation-human-research-standards/index.html

IRB Guidebook (OHRP USA)

https://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/regulations-and-policy/regulations/45-cfr-46/index.html

Johns Hopkins University: The Berman Institute of Bioethics Fogarty African Bioethics Training Program

https://bioethics.jhu.edu/

Kennedy Institute of Ethics

https://kennedyinstitute.georgetown.edu/about/

Library of Congress Science Reference Guide: Bioethics

https://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/SciRefGuides/bioethics.html

Medical Research Council, South Africa (Research Integrity & Ethics)

https://www.samrc.ac.za/ethics/ethicshuman.htm

Michigan State University (MSU) Center for Bioethics and Social Justice

https://bioethics.msu.edu/index.php

Middle East Research Ethics Training Initiative (MERETI)

https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/mereti/

National Association of IRB Leaders (NAIL)

http://www.naim.org/

National Library of Medicine Bioethics Information Resources (NIH)

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/bioethics.html

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)

https://www.niehs.nih.gov/

NIEHS: What is ethics in research and why is it important?

https://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/resources/bioethics/whatis/index.cfm

NIEHS: Research Ethics Timeline (1932 to Present)

https://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/resources/bioethics/timeline/index.cfm

National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature (Georgetown University)

https://library.georgetown.edu/bioethics

NIEHS Bioethics Resources

https://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/resources/bioethics/resources/index.cfm

NIH Department of Bioethics

https://www.bioethics.nih.gov/

NIH Guiding Principles for Ethical Research

https://www.nih.gov/health-information/nih-clinical-research-trials-you/guiding-principles-ethical-research

North American Regional Committee of the Human Genome Diversity Project: Model Ethical Protocol for Collecting DNA Samples

http://hrlibrary.umn.edu/instree/dnamodel.html

Nuffield Council on Bioethics

https://www.nuffieldbioethics.org/

The Nuffield Council on Bioethics Publications

https://www.nuffieldbioethics.org/publications

Nuremberg Code

https://ori.hhs.gov/content/chapter-3-The-Protection-of-Human-Subjects-nuremberg-code-directives-human-experimentation

Office for Human Research Protections (US OHRP)

https://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/index.html

OHRP Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects ('Common Rule')

https://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/regulations-and-policy/regulations/common-rule/index.html

OHRP Human Research Protection Program (HRPP) Resources

https://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/education-and-outreach/human-research-protection-program-fundamentals/index.html

Pan African Bioethics Initiative (PABIN)

https://ahri.gov.et/pan-africa-bioethics-initiatives-pabin/

Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research (PRIM&R)

https://primr.org/

Research Bioethics Training in Latin America Fogarty Bioethics Training Program

https://uchile.cl/bioetica/

School of Health Systems and Public Health, University of Pretoria (UP)

https://www.up.ac.za/school-of-health-systems-and-public-health

School of Psychology, University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN)

https://psychology.ukzn.ac.za/

SIDCER-FERCAP Foundation (Strategic Initiative for Developing Capacity in Ethical Review)

https://www.sidcer-fercap.org/pages/whats-sidcer.html

South African Department of Health: South African Good Clinical Practice: Clinical Trial Guidelines

https://www.sahpra.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/31828e7f4thCombinedChapt3rdRevisedNHREC_CTC_SAGCP24May2019_v3clean_Draftforcomment__10.07.2019.pdf

South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC): HREC – Guideline Documents

https://www.samrc.ac.za/research/rio-hrec-guideline-documents

South African Research Ethics Training Initiative (SARETI)

https://sareti.ukzn.ac.za/Homepage.aspx

Tuskegee University National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care (NIH)

https://www.tuskegee.edu/about-us/centers-of-excellence/bioethics-center

UNESCO Universal Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights

https://www.unesco.org/en/ethics-science-technology/human-genome-and-human-rights

United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights

https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights

University of Toronto Joint Center for Bioethics

https://jcb.utoronto.ca/

University of San Diego: Ethics Updates

http://ethicsupdates.net/index.shtml

USAID Research Plan (Protocol) Guidelines

https://usaidlearninglab.org/sites/default/files/resource/files/research_plan_guidelines_201909.pdf

USAID Scientific Research Policy (Interpretive Guide to the Common Rule)

https://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PBAAD895.pdf

US Department of Health and Human Services

https://www.hhs.gov/

Writing and Writers: Style and Writing Manuals Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals

https://www.icmje.org/

Wellcome Trust – Bioethics

https://wellcome.org/search?search=bioethics

Wellcome Trust – Masters Studentships in Humanities and Social Science

https://wellcome.org/grant-funding/schemes/masters-studentships-humanities-and-social-science

West African Bioethics Training Programme: Centre for Bioethics and Research (Nigeria)

https://bioethicscenter.net/

Wits Steve Biko Centre for Bioethics

https://www.wits.ac.za/bioethics/

World Health Organization – Operational Guidelines for Ethics Committees that Review Biomedical Research (available in 12 languages)

https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/66429

World Health Organization – Surveying and evaluating ethical review practices: a complementary guideline to the operational guidelines for ethics committees that review biomedical research

https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/67360

World Health Organization – International Guidelines on Bioethics (Informal Listing)

https://jme.bmj.com/content/27/2/117

World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki – Recommendations Guiding Physicians in Biomedical Research Involving Human Subjects

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7616562/

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Useful Links

USEFUL LINKS

There are a number of organisations with useful ethics resources, and these include:

Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies

Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI)

African AIDS Vaccine Programme (UNAIDS) Ethics. Law and Human Rights Working Group

Aga Khan University Bioethics Initiatives, Pakistan

Albert Einstein College of Medicine | Fogarty Training Program in Research Ethics in the Americas

American Society of Law, Medicine, and Ethics

Applied Research Ethics National Association (ARENA)

Belmont Report

Bioethics Information Retrieval Project

Bioethics Today | The website for the American Journal of Bioethics

Case Western Reserve University Department of Bioethics

Center for Bioethics and Department of Medical Ethics at the University of Pennsylvania

Centers for Disease Control: Associate Director for Science

CenterWatch Clinical Trials

Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences

CIOMS International Guidelines for the Review of Epidemiological Studies

Council on Health Research for Development (COHRED)

Declaration of Helsinki: World Medical Association

Department of Clinical Bioethics (NIH)

DHHS Human Subjects Regulations (45 CFR 46)

Drug Information Association (DIA)

Ethics of Clinical Research in the Developing World

The Eubios Ethics Institute

EUROETHICS - European Database on Medical Ethics

European Bioethical Research

European Commission: Science and Society: Ethics Grants and Activities

European Network of Research Ethics Committees (EUREC)

European Forum for Good Clinical Practice (EFGCP)

European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies (EGE)

Family Health International: Research Ethics Training Curriculum

FDA Guidance Documents

FDA Regulations (21 CFR 50) Protection of Human Subjects

FDA Regulations (21 CFR 56) Institutional Review Boards

Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (FAB)

Find articles over the internet

Fogarty International Center | International Bioethics Training Programs

Fogarty International Center (FIC)

Foro Latino Americano de Comites de Etica en Investigacion en Salud (FLACEIS)

Forum for Ethical Review Committees in Asia and the Western Pacific (FERCAP)

Genomics Resource Centre

Global Ethics Observatory (UNESCO)