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2 academic credits Course # 340.667.11
1:30-5:00pm — M, T, W, Th, F
Faculty from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics are pleased to announce a one-week intensive summer course entitled, “ 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 29 - July 03, 2009 (1:30 pm - 5:00 pm)
Location: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.)
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 :
Please click here to visit the Summer Institute’s website.
Contact:
Ayesha Khan, Coordinator
Graduate Summer Institute of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Baltimore, MD 21205
Phone: (410) 955-7158 ; Fax: (410) 955-0863
Email: akhan@jhsph.edu
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