About Global Forum on Bioethics in Research

     

What is the Forum?
The Global Forum on Bioethics in Research is an informal partnership established by a number of organizations with a shared interest in the ethics of conducting research involving human beings in developing countries. The Forum meets approximately annually, with an emphasis on discussion. The first meeting was in Bethesda in 1999, the second in Bangkok in 2000, the third in Cape Town in February 2002, and the fourth in Brasilia in October 2002. The fifth will be in Paris in 2004. Each annual forum has a main organiser: National Institutes of Health for 1999, World Health Organisation for 2000, Medical Research Council (UK) for Cape Town 2002, Pan American Health Organisation for Brasilia 2002, and INSERM for 2004.

 

 

 

 

 12 - 14 FEBRUARY 2004
 CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA

A follow-up Workshop will be held in February 2004 to explore developments in this area since the publication of the Report.  The Workshop, co-hosted by the South African MRC and the Nuffield Council on Bioethics

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What are the aims of the Forum?
- To maintain and strengthen the protection of human participants in medical research.
- To provide a forum for developing-country perspectives on ethical issues in research.
- To explore opportunities to enhance capacity for ethical review of research.
- To create a context for research involving human subjects in which developing and developed country scientists, ethicists, community representatives, policy-makers, industry, and other relevant stakeholders can address ethical issues in ways that allow expeditious long-term joint management of research protocols.

These aims are kept under review and refined at the business meetings held during each Forum.

HBE

John E. Fogarty International Center

Medical Research Council

NIH

NICHD

National Eye Institute


OPAS Brazil

 National Institute on Drugs Abuse


Center for Disease Control and Prevention

Wellcome Trust

 National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
 


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