Prepare for Research in Global Crisis
The Prepared project kicked off with a meeting you can view!
Covid 19 was not the last global crisis in the early 21st century. The Ukraine war has been raging since 24 February 2022 with world-wide impact. Research is highly difficult during global crisis but at the same time essential, as the Covid pandemic has shown. The European Commission therefore decided to fund the PREPARED project. The aim of the project is to develop an ethics and integrity framework for global crises.
50 experts and stakeholders from around the world met at the UN University in Bonn to kick off the PREPARED project from 27-29 Sep 2022.
SAGE MethodSpace Zoomed into the meeting to hear selected delegates provide statements on the difficulties of research during global crises and suggestions on how stakeholders can work together better in the future. Questions were fielded from online participants as well as the room at the UN University.
Find a transcript of the meeting here.
Speakers at the webinar:
Prof. Doris Schroeder is Coordinator of the PREPARED project and Professor of Moral Philosophy at UCLan Cyprus, School of Law. She is also the lead author of Global Code of Conduct for Research in Resource-Poor Settings.
Prof. Charles Weijer is Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology & Biostatistics, and Philosophy at Western University in London, Canada. He is a leading expert in the ethics of randomized controlled trials.
Dr. Michael Makanga is the Executive Director of the EDCTP, a clinician-scientist from Uganda with 25 years of professional experience working on health and poverty-related diseases in sub-Saharan Africa.
Dr. Joshua Kimani is the Clinical Director of PHDA, a clinical epidemiologist by training who serves a cohort of around 40,000 sex workers in and around Nairobi.
Joyce Adhiambo Odhiambo is an HIV champion and peer educator at PHDA, supporting research involving 40,000 sex workers in and around Nairobi.
Dr. Dorian Karatzas is the Head of Ethics and Integrity at DG Research and Innovation of the European Commission.
Prof. Klaus Leisinger is the President of the FGVA and former personal advisor on corporate responsibility to Kofi Annan and Ban Ki Moon.
Dr. Carleigh Krubiner is the Bioethics Lead for the Wellcome Trust. Her primary research areas have included the ethics of health priority setting, gender and health, research in LMICs, and the responsible and equitable inclusion of pregnant persons in biomedical research.
Prof. Mariëtte van den Hoven is Professor of Ethics, Law & Medical at Amsterdam UMC.
Dr. Fritz Schmuhl is a Senior Publisher in Springer Nature’s Mathematics, Physical and Applied Sciences Journal Division.
Dr. Katherine Littler is the Co-Lead of the Global Health Ethics & Governance Unit, World Health Organization.
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Dr. Janet Salmons, webinar moderator, is the Research Community Manager for SAGE Methodspace and author of Doing Qualitative Research Online.
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SAGE MethodSpace partnered with Prepared to Zoom into the meeting and hear selected delegates provide statements on the difficulties of research during global crises and suggestions on how stakeholders can work together better in the future. View the recording!