Ethics in Public Health Research: Protecting Human Subjects: the Role of Community Advisory Boards
Sandra Crouse Quinn, PhD
The author is with the Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences, Graduate School of Public Health at the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Sandra Quinn, PhD, 230 Parran Hall, 130 Desoto St, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261 (e-mail: squinn{at}pitt.edu).
Increasingly, researchers grapple with meaningful efforts toinvolve communities in research, recognizing that communitiesare distinct from individuals. We also struggle to ensure thatindividual participants in research are fully protected.
Community advisory boards (CABs) offer an opportunity to adopta relationships paradigm that enables researchers to anticipateand address the context in which communities understand risksand benefits, and individuals give consent.
CABs provide a mechanism for community consultation that contributesto protecting communities and fostering meaningful research.Furthermore, CABs can help us to re-create informed consentas a process. It is critical that we conduct research to understandthe role of CABs in the informed consent process.
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