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  1. Behind the scenes of research ethics committee oversight: a qualitative research study with committee chairs in the Middle East and North Africa region.Catherine El Ashkar, Rima Nakkash, Amal Matar & Jihad Makhoul - 2024 - BMC Medical Ethics 25 (1):1-10.
    Research cites shortcomings and challenges facing research ethics committees in many regions across the world including Arab countries. This paper presents findings from qualitative in-depth interviews with research ethics committee (REC) chairs to explore their views on the challenges they face in their work with the oversight of research involving human populations. Virtual in-depth interviews were conducted with chairs (n = 11) from both biomedical and/or social-behavioral research ethics committees in six countries, transcribed, coded and subject to thematic analysis for (...)
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  • Research ethics preparedness during outbreaks and public health emergencies: Focus on community engagement.Raffaella Ravinetto, Joyce Adhiambo & Joshua Kimani - forthcoming - Research Ethics.
    Research represents an essential component of the response to infectious disease outbreaks and to other public health emergencies, whether they are localised, of international concern, or global. Research conducted in such contexts also comes with particular ethics challenges, the awareness of which has significantly grown following the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the Zika outbreak in Latin America and the COVID-19 pandemic. These challenges include the need for implementing meaningful community engagement with the researched communities, not just to build unidirectional (...)
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  • Exploring views of South African research ethics committees on pandemic preparedness and response during COVID-19.Theresa Burgess, Stuart Rennie & Keymanthri Moodley - forthcoming - Research Ethics.
    South African research ethics committees (RECs) faced significant challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic. Research ethics committees needed to find a balance between careful consideration of scientific validity and ethical merit of protocols, and review with the urgency normally associated with public health emergency research. We aimed to explore the views of South African RECs on their pandemic preparedness and response during COVID-19. We conducted in-depth interviews with 21 participants from RECs that were actively involved in the review of COVID-19 related (...)
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