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The Experiment Must Continue: Medical Research and Ethics in East Africa, 1940-2014 (Ohio University Press, 2015) tells the story of human experimentation and medical ethics in East Africa from 1940 to the present.
This book is an important reference that will be needed for future researchers and historians. It is always good to reflect on what we have done in the past, try and take what works, and also look at it through a perspective lens. The way of the world changes through generations, and what we did in the past, which was acceptable, may be different now, or new data shows a better way. Having this documented to go back on is always smart as a good frame of reference.
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The project will conclude with the development of a best practices guide that will be widely shared among development economists and stakeholder organizations through conferences, workshops, teaching guides, and articles to facilitate further conversation on best practices in this area.
This is good because it is sharing information across many different organizations. I believe that this should be a standard in our industry and the thought needs to extend past just the stakeholders, but all parties involved.
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Through surveys and in-depth interviewing, we will also gather perspectives from development economists and African research participants regarding their experiences with RCTs and their expectations about if, when, and how results should be returned.
This is important because it provides transparency in research. Results should be completely transparent when dealing with research. It should be shared across the board, and unless it is crossing any ethical lines then I believe this transparency will be a benefit.
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This is a new collaborative research project, funded with a 3-year NSF Standard award through the Ethical and Responsible Research (ER2) Program area, which is being completed with co-PIs Alfredo Burlando and Ted Miguel of CEGA (UC Berkeley), in addition to Judith Meta assisting in East Africa.
Brining in more people to share the responsibility of ethical research will make future researchers that much better in conducting research ethically and responsibility.
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The project will be based in East Africa, and will focus specifically on the ethics and practice of returning research results to African participants.
I believe this is good because it is showing we have moved to a strengths based research. When you look at the data as human beings and making sure that they are looked at after the research ends then it makes the data that much more valuable.
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