Event: Community-Based Research: New Ethical Challenges

February 20, 2009

CARE: Community Alliance for Research and Engagement
Ethical Principles of Engagement Work Group
Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics
Community-Based Research: New Ethical Challenges
May 21, 2009

With generous support from the Patrick and Catherine Weldon Donaghue Medical Research Foundation, the Yale Interdisciplinary Center on Bioethics and CARE are hosting a one-day conference at Yale University in New Haven, CT on ethical principles and guidelines for engaging community and university partners in the conduct of community-based research. This will be an opportunity to bring together representatives from the Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) sites, community and university representatives of institutional review boards (IRB’s), and, community agency leaders responsible for reviewing researchin their agencies. The conference will be designed for active engagement of all participants in working group sessions, with concrete recommendations to meet each objective. 

Keynote Speaker 
Jeremy Sugarman, MD, MPH 
Johns Hopkins School of Public Health 
Harvey M. Meyerhoff Professor of Bioethics and Medicine 

OBJECTIVES:  
•Define “community”and “community research” 
•Identify central tenets for ethical principles of community-university partnerships in research 
•Consider new methods of community and  IRB review of community based research 
•Identify or develop essential training approaches and educational materials for researchers 
and community leaders 
•Identify strategies to enable true community-university partnerships in research 

The conference is free and will include breakfast and lunch.  Attendees are responsible for 
travel and hotel expenses.  Conference space is limited! 

To RSVP, contact Laurie Hurshman at 203-432-9736 or [email protected]