Enhance Your Bioethics Training with Summer Courses at the Berman Institute of Bioethics
The Berman Institute offers an ever-increasing range of short, intensive summer courses on a variety of themes and issues in bioethics. Below are just a few of our current offerings:
Ethics Issues in Human Subjects Research in Developing Countries . The course is offered as part of the Johns Hopkins Graduate Summer Institute of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. Course enrolment is open to any practitioner, researcher, policy maker, funder, faculty member, or student interested in or engaged in human research in low– and middle-income countries.
Course dates: June 13 - June 17, 2011 (1:30 pm - 5:00 pm)
Location: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.)
2 Academic Credits
Course faculty :
Nancy Kass, ScD, Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health & Deputy Director, Berman Institute of Bioethics
Andrea Ruff, MD, Associate Professor, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Course summary:
This course will introduce those enrolled to ethical principles and formal codes of ethics, and to key ethical issues that arise in international research. The course will largely be case-based to enable course participants to work through ethical challenges posed by research conducted in developing countries. Course topics will be addressed through a combination of lecture, discussion, and case analysis and will cover areas such as informed consent, what is owed to study participants and communities, IRBs/ethics committees, human rights, and ethics and vaccine research. Case studies will be based on actual research projects in developing countries, including both clinical and epidemiological/observational research. The course is geared towards U.S. and international faculty, researchers, government officials, students and others who conduct or fund research in low– and middle-income country settings and to those who sit on IRBs/research ethics boards. Student evaluation is based on case study exercises and class participation.
For more information and to register :
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Ethical Issues in Public Health: Research and Policy This course is offered as part of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Department of Health Policy and Management Summer Institute.
Course Dates: This course will next run in Summer 2012. Location: Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
3 academic credits Course Faculty:
Holly Taylor, PhD, MPH.
Course Summary: This course focuses on ethical theory and current ethical
issues in public health policy and human subject research. Topics covered in
lectures and moderated discussions include ethical theory and principles,
resource allocation and the right to health care, public health interventions
that may conflict with personal autonomy, public health screening, the role of
objective data in ethical analysis, informed consent for human subject
research, assessment of risks and benefits, Institutional Review Boards, and
the just selection of research participants. Students taking this course for
graduate academic credit will be evaluated based on class participation,
in-class exercise and final paper. This final paper will be due within
one month of the conclusion of the course on a date determined by the
instructor.
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