PAHO’s Regional Program on Bioethics and Quality and Regulation of Medicines and Health Technologies Unit carried out a new seminar of the series of seminars focused on clinical trials, which is part of PAHO’s Clinical Trial Accelerator Initiative.
This session presented PAHO’s recommendations to strengthen ethical preparedness for research in emergencies, and the challenges for their implementation in the Region.
Research in emergency contexts, such as disease outbreaks, is essential for generating evidence to improve health responses. However, these scenarios present specific ethical challenges that require thorough prior preparation.
The videos from previous seminars are available from PAHO's Portal of Clinical Trials of the Americas.
The aim is to strengthen the capacities of researchers, ethics committees, and health authorities to ensure that research is conducted ethically, equitably, and respectfully in emergency situations, thereby contributing effectively to public health.