Browsing by Author "Daar, Abdallah S."

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Addressing ethical, social, and cultural issues in global health research.
(Plos., 2013) Lavery, James V.; Green, Shane K.; Bandewar, Sunita V. S.; Bhan, Anant.; Daar, Abdallah S.; Emerson, Claudia I.; Masum, Hassan.; Randazzo, Filippo M.; Singh, Jerome Amir.; Upshur, Ross Edward Grant.; Singer, Peter A.
The purpose of this paper is to encourage reflection among the global health research community and the research ethics community about how a wide range of ethical, social, and cultural (ESC) influences on the conduct, success, and impact of global health research can best be addressed by consultation services in research ethics (CSRE). We draw on lessons we have learned during our experiences with the ESC Program of the Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative to propose key features of CSRE that may prove useful for those designing or implementing similar programs.
Grand challenges in global health : community engagement in research in developing countries.
(Plos., 2007) Tindana, Paulina O.; Singh, Jerome Amir.; Tracy, C. Shawn.; Upshur, Ross Edward Grant.; Daar, Abdallah S.; Singer, Peter A.; Fröhlich, Janet Ann.; Lavery, James V.
The authors argue that there have been few systematic attempts to determine the effectiveness of community engagement in research.
Grand challenges in global health : engaging civil society organizations in biomedical research in developing countries.
(Plos., 2007) Bhan, Anant.; Singh, Jerome Amir.; Upshur, Ross Edward Grant.; Singer, Peter A.; Daar, Abdallah S.
The authors discuss the different types of civil society organizations, their role in biomedical research, and the advantages and challenges of working with them.
Grand challenges in global health : the ethical, social and cultural program.
(Plos., 2007) Singer, Peter A.; Taylor, Andrew D.; Daar, Abdallah S.; Upshur, Ross Edward Grant.; Singh, Jerome Amir.; Lavery, James V.
The Grand Challenges initiative has 44 projects worldwide aimed at addressing diseases of the poor. What are the ethical, social, and cultural issues that the initiative faces?
Shared principles of ethics for infant and young child nutrition in the developing world.
(BioMed Central., 2010) Singh, Jerome Amir.; Daar, Abdallah S.; Singer, Peter A.
Background: The defining event in the area of infant feeding is the aggressive marketing of infant formula in the developing world by transnational companies in the 1970s. This practice shattered the trust of the global health community in the private sector, culminated in a global boycott of Nestle products and has extended to distrust of all commercial efforts to improve infant and young child nutrition. The lack of trust is a key barrier along the critical path to optimal infant and young child nutrition in the developing world. Discussion: To begin to bridge this gap in trust, we developed a set of shared principles based on the following ideals: Integrity; Solidarity; Justice; Equality; Partnership, cooperation, coordination, and communication; Responsible Activity; Sustainability; Transparency; Private enterprise and scale-up; and Fair trading and consumer choice. We hope these principles can serve as a platform on which various parties in the in the infant and young child nutrition arena, can begin a process of authentic trust-building that will ultimately result in coordinated efforts amongst parties. Summary: A set of shared principles of ethics for infant and young child nutrition in the developing world could catalyze the scale-up of low cost, high quality, complementary foods for infants and young children, and eventually contribute to the eradication of infant and child malnutrition in the developing world.