Ethical review issues in collaborative research between us and low-middle income country partners: a case example.
The current ethical structure for collaborative international health research stems largely from developed countries' standards of proper ethical practices. The result is that ethical committees in developing countries are required to adhere to standards that might impose practices that conflict with local culture and unintended interpretations of ethics, treatments, and research. This paper presents a case example of a joint international research project that successfully established inclusive ethical review processes as well as other groundwork and components necessary for the conduct of human behavior research and research capacity building in the host country.
McIntosh
Scott
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University of Rochester, Community & Preventive Medicine, Rochester, New York 14627-8969, United States. scott_mcintosh@urmc.rochester.edu
Sierra
Essie
E
Dozier
Ann
A
Diaz
Sergio
S
Quiñones
Zahira
Z
Primack
Aron
A
Chadwick
Gary
G
Ossip-Klein
Deborah J
DJ
D003906:Developing Countries; D004293:Dominican Republic; D028744:Ethics Committees, Research / Q000941:ethics* / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D007391:International Cooperation; D012106:Research / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards*; D014481:United States