Research Ethics

The Research Ethics Program, led by Yale School of Public Health faculty Kaveh Khoshnood with funding support from the National Institute of Health Fogarty International Center, is a five-year program funded by the National Institute of Health (NIH). This program seeks to establish a comprehensive collaborative program for international research ethics education and curriculum development. It does so through the joint effort of a multidisciplinary team of researchers and ethicists from Yale University, Central South University Xiangya School of Medicine, and a distinguished Training Advisory Group (TAG). The program offers short training seminars in Changsha and brings both Xiangya graduate students and young faculty to Yale for academic training.

Summer Ethics Training Workshop at Xiangya (August 20-23, 2012)

Professors Kaveh Khoshnood and Madelon Baranoski of Yale University traveled to Changsha, China in August for a week-long training workshop in ethics at the Central South University Xiangya School of Medicine (and affiliated institutions). The workshops focused on: the design and development of an Institutional Review Board (IRB); responsible conduct of research; ethical issues in mental health research; and ethical issues in HIV/AIDS prevention research.

Summer Bioethics Institute at Yale (June-July 2012)

Yale’s Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics offers an intensive two-month summer program for American and international undergraduate and graduate students who are interested in learning more about bioethics. Participants hear a series of morning lectures surveying the field of bioethics, engage with intensive seminars on special topics, attend a bioethics film/discussion series, participate in field trips to bioethics-related institutions, and present an original paper at a final in-house “mini-conference”.

2012 Research Ethics Trainees

HU Mi, Ph.D. - Central South University, School of Public Health, Changsha CHINA
LI Xin, M.D. - Central South University, Xiangya Third Hospital, Changsha CHINA