Strengthening Stakeholder Engagement Through Ethics Review – HIV Prevention Trials

How could the ethics review process facilitate excellent engagement? Rooted in ethics guidelines, this course provides a condensed overview of core features and practices of ‘engaged’ clinical trials, and how these can be supported in ethics review. It is focused on HIV but relevant to other infectious diseases.

What an expert has to say

“The course on Strengthening Engagement Through Ethics Review is a “must do” for any REC members, … investigators … as well as for any other stakeholders with an interest in HIV prevention research… The course addresses why it is important to engage, who needs to be engaged, how can they be engaged, how can researchers plan for engaging stakeholders, and ultimately how can RECs assist in strengthening stakeholder engagement … The course uses an interactive approach and includes cases, scenarios and thought-provoking questions… I highly recommend the course to investigators, new and existing members of research ethics committees, advocates, community advisory board members and anyone with an interest in HIV prevention research.” Paul Ndebele PhD, Senior Research Regulatory Specialist, Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University

What course takers have to say

“An important topic, well handled! As a lay person serving on an REC, I found the content pitched at a level which was easy to comprehend.”

“Great job on stakeholder engagement through ethics review, reviewers should  take  these  into  consideration  when  reviewing  ”

“A very important topic for researchers and would wish that all be familiar with the contents of the course to enrich and strengthen research involving human subjects.”

“The course is good and helped highlight the importance of SE in REC review. The various national and international guidelines was most useful “

“Great course structure. The combination of audio, graphics and quiet reading sessions made it great!”

“Since am part of researcher staff, I felt it was very helpful to know more about such things and how to engage with other committees.”

“This was a well structured course with easy navigation and excellent interactive content.”

“I liked the way the course is tailored. The protocol review practical part of the course made it very interesting and enriching to me.”