Research and Bioethics Organizations and Programs

Academic Programs in Bioethics and Human Research Protections

2007-02-06: under revision. We appreciate your patience.

• Department of Bioethics Dalhousie University
• The Ethics Site University of San Diego
• The Kennedy Institute of Ethics Georgetown University
• Clinical Trials Research Group McGill University
• Penn Center For Bioethics University of Pennsylvania
• Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics Indiana University
• UB Center for Clinical Ethics and Humanities in Health Care University at Buffalo The State University of New York
• The University of Virginia Center for Biomedical Ethics

Bioethics and Human Research Protections Organizations

• American Society for Bioethics and Humanities
• Canadian Bioethics Society
• CERES Consumers for Ethics in Research (UK consumer advocacy organization and an excellent resource.)
• Nuffield Council on Bioethics
• SciDevNet Ethics Dossier. (Programs and educational initiatives in human subject protection in the developing world; supported by international development agencies in the UK, Canada, and Sweden, and by the Rockefeller Foundation.)
• Women's Bioethics Project

Human Research Protections Training and Education

• Ethics in Mental Health Research Site. (Developed by James DuBois Ph.D., Center for Health Care Ethics, St. Louis University.)
• Research Conflicts of Interest Training. (University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.)
• Poynter Center Scientists and Subjects: An Online Seminar of the Ethics of Research with Human Subjects (Indiana University.)
• Poynter Center Center for the Study of Ethics, Resources in Ethics (Indiana University.)
• Office of Research Integrity, RCR Educational Resource Products (Office of Research Integrity (ORI), is a division of HHS.)
• Educating Staff in Community Agencies about Human Subjects Protection in Research (Leslie Anderson and Kenneth Mossman. Funded by the Office of Research Integrity.)
• Responsible Conduct of Research, Human Subjects Research (Howard Mann M.D., Division of Medical Ethics, the University of Utah.)
• Responsible Conduct of Research, Courses Portal (Columbia University.)
• Use of Human Subjects in Research (Stanford University modular self-paced tutorials.)
• Human Participant Protections Education for Research Teams (National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health.)

Clinical Trial Design (Academic)

• Trialsmeinertsway.com (History, essays, and investigator resources by Professor Carl Meinert Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health.)
• Dave Sackett's Home Page (David Sackett M.D., Trout Research & Education Centre at Irish Lake.)

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Industry Professional Organizations

• Clinical Device Group Inc.
• DIA Drug Information Association
• PRIMER Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research
• RAPS Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society
• RegSource Regulatory Resources (Comprehensive information gateway site for industry.)
• SOCRA Society of Clinical Research Associates

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Last Updated: 2007-04-01

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