Research Ethics Resources

2012-13 Research Ethics Workshops and Seminars

A seven session, online research ethics course (designed and offered by Douglas MacLean, UNC-CH Professor of Philosophy) is available online (http://openseminar.org/ethics/courses/73/index/screen.do) as an alternative for self-directed study.
An eight session, online public health focused research ethics course (designed and offered by James Thomas, UNC-CH Associate Professor of Epidemiology) is available online (http://oce.sph.unc.edu/phethics/) as an alternative for self-directed study.

For those choosing one of the self-directed options, one CPC RE workshop = one module. Please provide evidence of module completion (1-2 page evaluation of the material).

The UNC Center for Bioethics and the UNC Hospital Ethics Committee
Nature, Sources, and Consequences
Dr. Gail Geller, Johns Hopkins University, Berman Institute of Bioethics
Friday: September 7, 2012
Room 1 Cancer Center, Noon

Center for Genomics and Society
They screen newborns, don't they? What genomic variants should trigger our genetic rescue ethos for adults?
Dr. Gail Henderson, UNC-CH Social Medicine
Tuesday: September 18, 2012
G010 Bondurant Hall, 11:00 a.m.

UNC Center for Bioethics
Managing Participant-Specific Research Results from Genomic Sequencing Studies: The NCGENES Experience
Drs. Jonathan Berg (UNC-CH Genetics) & James Evans (UNC-CH Genetics and Medicine)
Thursday: September 20, 2012
219 Brinkhous-Bullitt, Noon

UNC Parr Center for Ethics
The (Honest) Truth about Dishonesty
Dr. Dan Ariely, James B. Duke Professor of Psychology & Behavioral Economics, Duke University
Monday: September 24, 2012
100 Hamilton Hall, 6:00 p.m.

Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University
Examining Equity: A Multidimensional Framework for Assessing Equity in Payments for Ecosystem Services
Dr. Melanie McDermott, Associate Director, Rutgers Initiative on Climate and Society; Assistant Research Professor, Human Ecology – Rutgers University
Monday: September 24, 2012
101 West Duke Building (Duke University), Noon

Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University
A Plea for Humanism
Dr. Douglas McClean, Professor of Philosophy, UNC-CH
Monday: October 8, 2012
101 West Duke Building (Duke University), Noon

Duke-UNC Philosophy, Politics, & Economics Program
When Hobbes is an Optimist: Politics Among the Malevolent
Dr. Loren Lomasky, Director and Cory Professor of Political Philosophy, Policy, and Law, University of Virginia
Monday: October 8, 2012
213 Caldwell, 5:30 p.m.

NC TraCS Research Ethics Grand Rounds
Neglected Ethical Issues in Bio-bank Management: Results from a National Survey
Dr. Jean Cadigan, Assistant Professor of Social Medicine, UNC-CH
Thursday Monday: October 18, 2012
219 Brinkhous-Bullitt, Noon

Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University
Militant Democracy: The Ethics of Combatting Political Extremism
Dr. Alex Kirshner, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Duke University
Monday: October 22, 2012
101 West Duke Building (Duke University), Noon

Sanford School of Public Policy and the Sulzberger Family Fund of the Center for Child and Family Policy, Duke University
2012-2013 Crown Lecture in Ethics
Getting Everyone On Board -- Our Obligation to Children in Poverty
Marian Wright Edelman, Children's Defense Fund
Thursday: October 25, 2012
Fleishman Commons (Duke University), 5:30 p.m.

Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University
The Civility Trap: Citizen Engagement in Mediated Public Spheres
Dr. Andrew Perrin, Associate Professor of Sociology, UNC-CH
Monday: October 29, 2012
101 West Duke Building (Duke University), Noon

The UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and the UNC Student Global Health Committee
Whose Water is it Anyway?
Panel discussion:
- Dr. Urooj Amjad, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, The Water Institute
- Dr. Myron Cohen, J. Herbert Bate Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology, and Public Health, UNC-CH
- Dr. Jacqueline MacDonald Gibson, Assistant Professor of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, UNC-CH
- Dr. Mark Sobsey, Professor of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, UNC-CH
Monday: October 29, 2012
Nelson Mandela Auditorium - FedEx Global Education Center, 6:00 p.m.

Department of History, History of Medicine Collections, Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture, and the Trent Center for Bioethics, Duke University
ESCAPING MELODRAMAS: Reflections on Telling the Histories of the Public Health Service's Research in Tuskegee and Guatemala
Dr. Susan Reverby, Marion Butler McLean Professor in the History of Ideas and Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, Wellesley College
Thursday: November 1, 2012
Gothic Reading Room, Perkins Library (Duke University), 5:30 p.m.

Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University
Aid Agencies, Bureaucracy, and the New Legalism in South Sudan: From Civil War to Spreadsheets
Dr. Mark Massoud, Assistant Professor of Politics, University of California, Santa Cruz
Monday: November 5, 2012
101 West Duke Building (Duke University), Noon