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ArticleJournal of general internal medicine2013

Taking stock of the ethical foundations of international health research: pragmatic lessons from the IU-Moi Academic Research Ethics Partnership.

Eric M Meslin, Edwin Were, David Ayuku

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Article in Journal of general internal medicine, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

Eric M Meslin
Edwin Were
David Ayuku

Funding

INDIANA CLINICAL AND TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCE INSTITUTE (UL1): BPCAUL1RR025761 · NCRR · INDIANA UNIVERSITY INDIANAPOLIS · PI SHEKHAR, ANANTHA · 2008 to 2011
$21.0M
Indiana University-Moi University Academic Research Ethics PartnershipR25TW006070 · FIC · INDIANA UNIVERSITY INDIANAPOLIS · PI VREEMAN, RACHEL CHRISTINE · 2008 to 2016
$2.2M
Building a Joint International IRB for Moi University and Indiana UniversityS07TW008850 · FIC · INDIANA UNIVERSITY INDIANAPOLIS · PI MESLIN, ERIC M. · 2010 to 2010
$54k
FIC NIH HHS 1S07TW008850-01FIC NIH HHS 2 R25 TW006070-05FIC NIH HHS R25 TW006070FIC NIH HHS S07 TW008850NCRR NIH HHS UL1 RR025761NCRR NIH HHS UL1RR025761-01
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

It is a sine qua non that research and health care provided in international settings raise profound ethical questions when different cultural and political values are implicated. Yet ironically, as international health research expands and as research on ethical issues in international health research broadens and deepens, we appear to have moved away from discussing the moral foundations of these activities. For international health research to thrive and lead to the kind of benefits it is capable of, it is helpful to occasionally revisit the foundational premises that justify the enterprise as a whole. We draw on the experience of the Indiana University-Moi University Academic Research Ethics Partnership, an innovative bioethics training program co-located in Indianapolis and Eldoret, Kenya to highlight the changing nature of ethical issues in international health research and the ongoing practical challenges.

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International CooperationBioethicsBiomedical ResearchEducation, Medical, ContinuingEthical RelativismEthics, ResearchGlobal HealthHealth Services ResearchHumansMoralsNeeds Assessment

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PMID23797913
PMCPMC3744285

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