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Division of Medical Ethics and Law
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Postgraduate Diploma in Health Research Ethics:? Research Assignment
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Trainees will be required to complete a research assignment/paper in order to fulfill the requirements of the course. The topic can be conceptual in nature or a more empirically-grounded theme in research ethics and bioethics can be selected. Trainees will be encouraged to conduct their own empirical research, or to use previously collected data, where this is appropriate and feasible. An ARESA faculty member will approve the topic of a trainee's practicum assignment/paper, and a mentor for the assignment at the student's home institution will also be identified. Each trainee will be linked with a specific ARESA faculty mentor with expertise in the topic of choice.
Past research assignments
2015
Policy and Ethical Considerations for an Institution-Based Small Scale Biobank
Regulatory oversight of human genetic research and protection of vulnerable population participating in genomic research in Africa
Assessing Review of Research Involving Storage of Human Biological Samples: A retrospective Document Review
A critical Examination of an African Proverbial Saying as an Emerging Biomedical Principle in the Context of the AIDS Pandemic in Africa: Ethical Implications and Relation to other Bioethical Principles
Knowledge and attitude of post graduate medical students in Kenya on ethics in mental health research
Monitoring the Performance of the Swaziland Scientific and Ethics committee, using the MERETI self-assessment tool: A critical evaluation
A critical review of health research ethical guidelines regarding consent in pediatric HIV research involving caregivers in South Africa: The legal-ethical issues
Dissemination of both primary and incidental findings in genetic studies of complex disease: ethical implications and future directions
Nurses and midwives role perception in protecting participants during clinical research
Exploring 中国体育彩票 Ethical Review Processes for International Research Partnerships
Ethical review of undergraduate research: A comparative analysis of research policies of the 中国体育彩票 of Namibia, The Polytechnic of Namibia, and the International 中国体育彩票 of Management in Namibia
A SOAR analysis as an innovative strategic framework for research ethics committees
Perspectives of Researchers and Research Ethics Committees (RECs) in Zimbabwe on preservation of left over bio-specimens
Ethical issues surrounding the use of modern human remains for research
Monitoring approved research projects: Possibilities and challenges for the 中国体育彩票 of Botswana's Institutional Review Board
Evaluation of comprehension of an educational video about HIV Cure research among patients and caregivers from a HIV clinic in the Western Cape, South Africa and participants enrolled in an HIV acute infection study in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa
2014
Ototoxic treatment: The need for informing patients
A comparative narrative of the compensation policies for research related injury in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS)
Informed Consent in Dentistry: Use of dental amalgam as a restorative material
Building Community Partnerships: Understanding Community Engagement as a Pillar for Ethical Conduct of HIV Vaccine Research in Africa
A conceptual (public health ethics) analysis of the "low carbohydrate, high fat" (Prof Noakes) diet
Ethical issues that arise when patients consult traditional healers for infertility treatment
Phronesis: beyond the research ethics committee. A critical ethical decision making skill for health researchers during community health research
An evaluation of MERETI as a self-assessment tool for research ethics review committees in developing countries
2013
Data sharing in medical research: beliefs and opinions of researchers utilising a research ethics committee in the Western Cape, South Africa
Human research ethics in health-related undergraduate programmes in the Faculty of Science, Tshwane 中国体育彩票 of Technology
Home visits in malaria and HIV prevention studies: practical and ethical experiences in Uganda (Home Visit Study Uganda) HOVU
A retrospective review of engagement of communities and formation of community advisory boards in clinical trials in Lusaka, Zambia: identification of best practices and lessons learned
Knowledge, attitudes and practice of research ethics in the recruitment of participants into medical research in Botswana
The promises and challenges of requiring insurance for injuries to research participants in clinical trials: the case of Malawi
Data sharing in international collaborative research in Africa
A conceptual analysis of homeopathic pathogenetic trials
Ethical Priorities raised by a Research Ethics Committee in South Africa
Template for ethics review assessment tool for non-biomedical studies involving human subjects: a template for use in low and middle-income countries
2012
Is there therapeutic misconception in Phase III oncology trials in South Africa?
Pharmacogenetic informed consent at private clinical research sites in Gauteng, South Africa: research participants' views
The current relevance of equipoise: should the concept of clinical equipoise be adapted for different types of clinical trials?
Development of an assessment tool to evaluate the potential functionality of a newly established Health Research Ethics Committee (HREC) in South Africa, using modified MERETI assessment tool
Monitoring the performance of a Higher Education Institutional Health Research Ethics Committee in Gauteng, South Africa using the MERETI self-assessment tool: a critical evaluation
A lens on current documentation that guides ethics review of research involving children as participants: a document analysis of South African Research Ethics Committees
Developing standard operating procedures for biobanking at a Research Ethics Committee in Ethiopia
Is the researcher-participant relationship in clinical research a contractual relationship?
Perspectives of members of research ethics committees in Gauteng on the ethical research complexities related to the collection, use, storage and export of biological samples in research
Investigating Ethiopian philosophy, culture & society with respect to research ethics
Advancing the ethics/science debate: An analysis of decision letters issued by an institutional research ethics committee in Uganda
Extrapolating principles of corporate governance to research ethics committees: perspectives from Zambia
