Category: Research

The PREPARE study team had the exciting opportunity to showcase their work at the 2nd African Workshop on Women and HIV, in Nairobi, Kenya. The team presented two research posters that highlighted key study findings. The first poster focused on the team’s innovative approach of engaging Youth Advisory Boards to...

Bioethics from the Global South Bioethics from the Global South was published in mid-January 2025 by Springer. The editors, Lillian Omutoko and Walter Jaoko, are graduates of the Advancing Research Ethics in Southern Africa (ARESA) program, an NIH-funded master’s program collaboratively run by the Division of Medical Ethics and Law at...

Mara Buchbinder is lead author, and Kavita Arora is second author, of a new co-authored article in Social Science & Medicine.

Jill A. Fisher is a co-author on a new letter in The Lancet: “Declaration of Helsinki’s missed opportunity for healthy volunteer trials.” The authors “applaud the Declaration of Helsinki,” but suggest that it “does not go far enough” when mentioning healthy research volunteers. The authors also reference the first Global...

R. Jean Cadigan is a co-author on a new article in Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics. In “Ready, Set, Sort! A User-Guide to Card Sorts for Community-Engaged Empirical Bioethics,” the authors demonstrate the “fruitfulness of using card sort activities as an engagement method” and include a user...

Mara Buchbinder is the first author on a new commentary article in Chest: “Organizational Resilience: A Systems-Based Approach for Addressing the Workforce Crisis in Intensive Care.” The researchers propose a novel, systems-based approach to addressing burnout, with a focus on works in intensive care environments. The commentary suggests organizational resilience...

Rebecca L. Walker is the author of chapter 41, “Physicians and Punishment: Ethics beyond oaths and codes” in The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Punishment, ed. Jesper Ryberg. Abstract: Despite orientation to goals that are in deep tension, medicine and state-sanctioned punishment have long cooperated. Involvement of physicians in...

Stuart Rennie is the first author on a new article in Public Health Ethics: “Ethics of Mathematical Modeling in Public Health: The Case of Medical Male Circumcision for HIV Prevention in Africa.” The authors call for greater research and reflection on the ethics of mathematical modeling public health. They use...

Stuart Rennie is a co-author on a new article in Research Ethics: “Exploring views of South African research ethics committees on pandemic preparedness and response during COVID-19.” The authors did in-depth interviews to explore the views of South African research ethics committees (RECs) on their COVID-19 pandemic preparedness and response....

by Brittany Phillips, UNC Health Publishing in Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, UNC School of Medicine researchers delve into the perspectives of community and academic providers on the role of biologics and food allergy. This study was led by co-authors Edwin Kim, MD, Division Chief of Pediatric Allergy and...