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Key to successful global health collaborations: research, ethics and community engagement and involvement

  • Bioethics, Community Engagement And Involvement
  • Journal Article

Ethics and research in psychiatry: Consent, capacity, and bioethics

  • Bioethics
  • Book Chapter
This chapter provides an overview of the principles underlying ethical procedures in psychiatric research, with a specific focus on populations with mental disorders and research

Ethics, a critical friend of research

  • Bioethics
  • Journal Article
Ethics is perceived by some at least, as an opponent of research, or as a barrier or even a hindrance. Ethicists and researchers seem to

Ethics of Public Mental Health in Developing Societies

  • Bioethics
  • Book Chapter
Half of the world’s population lives in countries with one psychiatrist to serve 200,000 people and in low and middle income countries (LAMICs), even most

Rethinking Vulnerability and Research: Defining the Need for a Post-Research Ethics Audit

  • Bioethics
  • Journal Article
Vulnerability of research populations is a fundamental area of interest and debate in bioethics. Based on mental health research in a humanitarian setting context, I

Ethical issues in global mental health trials

  • Bioethics
  • Book Chapter
The aim of this chapter is to examine crucial ethical issues related to conducting RCTs that evaluate innovative packages of care and delivery systems for

When Relief Comes from a Different Culture: Sri Lanka’s Experience of the Asian Tsunami

  • Bioethics
  • Book Chapter
Many disasters involve international assistance and bring together different cultures that might otherwise have limited or difficult interactions. The ethical issues raised by disasters can

Ethical challenges in mental health research among internally displaced people: ethical theory and research implementation

  • Bioethics, Common Mental Disorders, Disaster Management, Migration Research
  • Journal Article
Millions of people undergo displacement in the world. Internally displaced people (IDP) are especially vulnerable as they are not protected by special legislation in contrast

Psychosocial and Ethical Response to Disasters: A SWOT Analysis of Post-Tsunami Disaster Management in Sri Lanka

  • Bioethics, Disaster Management, Tsunami
  • Journal Article
Background Disasters take place around the globe on a regular basis, creating challenges for various stakeholders responsible for managing the aftermath. Large-scale disasters bring about

Ethical Issues in Post-Disaster Clinical Interventions and Research: A Developing World Perspective. Key Findings from a Drafting and Consensus Generation Meeting of the Working Group on Disaster Research and Ethics (WGDRE) 2007

  • Bioethics, Tsunami
  • Journal Article
Disasters, natural or man-made, can occur virtually anytime and anywhere in the world. They bring mass destruction and loss of human lives. The effects of

Ethics of Disaster Management, Clinical Care and Research

  • Bioethics, Disaster Management
  • Journal Article
According to Emergency Disasters Data Base — EM-DAT (WHO), there were 16,000 major disasters and over 500,000 deaths in the last hundred years. In 2006,

Windows of Opportunity after a Disaster: The Case of Sri Lanka

  • Bioethics, Disaster Management
  • Journal Article
Natural or man-made disasters occur regularly, bringing destruction and death. Devastating effects of a large-scale disaster is felt more strongly among vulnerable populations, especially in

Neurobiological Stress Markers in Tsunami Survivors: A Commentary

  • Bioethics
  • Journal Article
On 26 December 2004, an earthquake of surface wave magnitude of 9.0 on the Richter scale occurred off the West coast of Northern Sumatra. The

Understanding of research: a Sri Lankan perspective

  • Bioethics
  • Journal Article

Informed consent in Sri Lanka: A survey among ethics committee members

  • Bioethics
  • Journal Article
Approval of the research proposal by an ethical review committee from both sponsoring and host countries is a generally agreed requirement in externally sponsored research.

Ethics Review Committee approval and informed consent: an analysis of biomedical publications originating from Sri Lanka

  • Bioethics
  • Journal Article
International guidelines on research have focused on protecting research participants. Ethical Research Committee (ERC) approval and informed consent are the cornerstones. Externally sponsored research requires

Bioethics in Sri Lanka

  • Bioethics
  • Journal Article
Bioethics took off slowly in Sri Lanka, but now there are ethics review committees in many medical schools and national organizations. All medical schools teach

Research and clinical ethics after the tsunami: Sri Lanka

  • Bioethics
  • Journal Article
In late 2004, the Journal of Traumatic Stress published a special section about the ethics of disaster research, addressing ethical issues related to conducting research

Under-representation of developing countries in the research literature: ethical issues arising from a survey of five leading medical journals

  • Bioethics
  • Journal Article
It is widely acknowledged that there is a global divide on health care and health research known as the 10/90 divide.

Revisiting “Freely Given Informed Consent” in Relation to the Developing World: Role of an Ombudsman.

  • Bioethics
  • Journal Article
Establishment of Sri Lankan Twin Registry demanded development of ethical guidelines, as an effective ethical framework was not available in Sri Lanka.

Research Ethics from a Developing World Perspective

  • Bioethics
  • Book
Health research is an essential prerequisite to the overall development of any country. National and international bodies concerned with research ethics need to confront the

International representation in psychiatric literature: Survey of six leading journals

  • Bioethics
  • Journal Article
Despite the growing recognition of the global burden of psychiatric disease, there are questions about the strength of the evidence base from non-Western societies.