10th Forum - Annecy, France, 3-4 November 2015 - Global Forum on Bioethics in Research (GFBR)

Programme details

Keynote: Ethics and Epidemics: Are Lessons Ever Learned? [MS Powerpoint]

Ross Upshur, University of Toronto

Session 1: Trust and community engagement

Case study 1: The Ethical Challenges of conducting anthropological fieldwork during an Ebola outbreak: A case study from Monrovia, Liberia
Emilie Venables, Médecins Sans Frontières

Case study 2: Case study of best practices in community engagement adapted for an Ebola phase 1 study [MS Powerpoint]
Patricia Njuguna & Maureen Njue, KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Programme

Case study 3: Bonglam Kromah, Physician’s Assistant: using convalescent blood from Ebola survivors [MS Powerpoint]

Jennyfer Ambe, Global Emerging Pathogens Treatment Consortium, and Godfrey Tangwa, University of Yaounde, Cameroon

Session 2: Trust, communities and inter-organisational relationships

Case study 5: History, culture, social norms and Ebola drug and vaccine research in Ebola Affected regions [MS Powerpoint]
Amuni Yakubu, Federal Ministry of Health, Nigeria, on behalf of Morenike Folayan, Awolowo University

Panel discussion: audio to be available soon.

Session 3: Equity in access to treatment

Case study 6: H5N1: Flu vaccine supply for those who contribute to seed stock [MS Powerpoint]
Voo Teck Chuan, National University of Singapore

Jayakrishnan Thavody, Government Medical College Kozhikode

Plenary session: The development of ethics guidance in/for epidemics [MS Powerpoint]

Abha Saxena, WHO

Session 4: Adaptive Trial Design – Panel session

Adaptive Trial Designs – Chair: Ross Upshur
Ebola, Study design, and ethics – Nancy Kass, Johns Hopkins University
Ethics and clinical research during epidemics – Peter Horby, University of Oxford
Adaptive Trial Design – Piero Olliaro, WHO
What would you choose if it were you? – Aissatou Toure, Institut Pasteur, Senegal

Summary of Day 1: Katherine Littler (Wellcome Trust) and Barbara Sina (NIH-Fogarty)

Summary of meeting: Doug Wassenaar (University of Kwazulu-Natal) and Lisa Dawson (NIAID)

Other Meetings

Inaugural Forum – Bethesda, USA, 1999
Partnerships between research sponsors and investigators involved in clinical trials in developing countries

2nd Forum – Bangkok, Thailand, 14-15 October 2000
Capacity building for ethics review in developing countries and benefiting the host community

3rd Forum – Capetown, South Africa, 21-23 February 2002
Bioethics and public health research, including ethical guidelines related to post-trial access to drugs

5th Forum – Paris, France, 22-23 April 2004
Sharing the benefits from research in developing countries: equity and intellectual property

6th Forum – Blantyre, Malawi, 17-19 March 2005
What Happens When the Research is Over? Post-trial Obligations of Researchers and Sponsors

7th Forum – Karachi, Pakistan, 17-19 February 2006
Ethical Issues in Research involving Public Health, Health Systems, and Health Services

8th Forum – Vilnius, Lithuania, 27-29 July 2009
Fostering Research Ethics Infrastructure in the Developing World and Transition Societies