Dr. Stuart Rennie, Associate Professor, UNC Social Medicine, is the ethics consultant for Re-engaging Ethics: Ethical Issues in Engaged Research. The project was awarded by the Greenwall Foundation, and aims to create guidelines to support ethical engagement in community engaged research. These guidelines are intended to aid academic and community researchers in the conducting of … Read more

Social and Ethical Aspects of Research on Curing HIV A Working Group Co-Principle Investigators: Stuart Rennie Joseph Tucker One of the defining qualities of living with HIV has been that it is incurable, and this tenet has powerfully formed and disrupted individual, organizational, and institutional identities. But recent medical advances have contested this basic fact, … Read more

Little is known about perceptions of HIV cure among people living with HIV (PLHIV), despite them being crucial stakeholders in ongoing HIV cure research. A qualitative research study was conducted in Guangzhou, China, to explore the perceptions of HIV cure among PLHIV in relation to their views on HIV treatment, stigma and social identity. We … Read more

Appropriateness of no-fault compensation for research-related injuries from an African perspective: an appeal for action by African countries Patrick Dongosolo Kamalo, Lucinda Manda-Taylor, and Stuart Rennie Published 2016 June 3 on The Journal of Medical Ethics. Compensation for research-related injuries (RRIs) remains a challenge in the current environment of global collaborative biomedical research as exemplified … Read more

Hidden costs: The ethics of cost-effectiveness analyses for health interventions in resource-limited settings Sarah E. Rutstein, Joan T. Price, Nora E. Rosenberg, Stuart M. Rennie, Andrea K. Biddle, & William C. Miller Published 2016 May 4 in Journal of Public Health. Cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) is an increasingly appealing tool for evaluating and comparing health-related interventions … Read more