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Course Syllabi
The Collaborative Initiative in Environmental Health has funded the development
of these courses taught at collaborating universities. The syllabi are attached
as pdf files. The project collaborators also offered a variety of seminars and
workshops in various university-wide, regional and national venues for several
hours or day-long duration. These are listed under section 2 below.
1. Courses Developed and Conducted at Collaborating Universities
- Research Ethics and Public Health; Bill
Jenkins, Douglas Taylor and others, Morehouse College, Spring 2005.
This course focuses on the philosophical underpinnings of Bioethics.
Students learn to assess current organizational structures for assuring that
Bioethics regulations are enforced in the medical research industry, and analyze
the political issues and forces that impact assessment and regulation of Bioethics
at each level of government.
- Research Ethics with Underserved Groups; Linda
Silka, UMASS-Lowell, Fall 2004 (online course). This course draws on experiences
of a variety of research partnerships in African American, Latino, Native
American, and refugee and immigrant communities. Students develop an in-depth
knowledge of how to build research partnerships that overcome frequent ethical
dilemmas. This course was first developed and taught in 2002.
- Community-Based Environmental Health Methods for
Research Intervention and Evaluation; Doug Brugge, Tufts University. This
intensive five-week course focused on community-based research, the formation
of partnerships and the ethical considerations that arise in this field. The
course was developed in 2002 and is now being offered on a regular basis.
- Community-Driven Epidemiology and Environmental
Justice; Steven Wing, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Spring
2002. This semester-long graduate course presented topics on research ethics
in the field of public health and epidemiology; particualry for research ethics
with African-American and other environmental justice affected communities.
- Community
and Environmental Health Research Ethics; Dianne Quigley, Syracuse University.
New ethical research practices with community populations stress partnership
and participatory models with community members. Working in partnership and
sharing control over the research process can lead to significant new challenges
in the scientific practice of community and environmental health research.
Such challenges include community rights and "community informed consent".
This course will explore how bio-medical research protections for individuals
can be extended to groups and communities by reviewing case studies in participatory
research and ethical theories of virtue ethics, communitarian, liberalism
and post-modern ethics.
2. Recent Short Courses and Seminar Presentations:
- Phil Brown at Brown University offered four monthly seminar series for faculty/students,
Spring 2005. Sample Topics included: The Nature of Community, Researcher Bias.
- Three sessions from project collaborators on "Community research protections"
at American Public Health Association, Washington, D.C., November, 2004 (D.
Quigley, L. Silka, D. Taylor). These included "Community Research Ethics"
(project team) and "Lessons on Community-Inspired Ethics" (D. Taylor)
in the APHA Ethics Forum, 2 presentations; Community Ethics and Biomonitoring
in the Breast Cancer Forum.
- One presentation at Breast Cancer Biomonitoring Conference, San Francisco,
CA in Oct. 2004 for "community research ethics" (D. Quigley).
- Oct. 2005, CA State Health Dept (public health/environmental epidemiology
researchers). "Understanding Communal Ethical Frameworks" for improving
community research protections (D. Quigley).
- One presentation on "Postmodern Contributions to Ethics" for dealing
with Native American tribes at "Genetics and Group Rights" Conference
at Arizona State University, October 2004 ( E. Wallwork).
- "Health Disparities" (S.Wing), AMA, Duke U., March 2005.
- Genes, justice, racial inequalities, Minority Health Leadership Summit (S
Wing) January 2005, U. of Pittsburgh
- Linda Silka offered a one-day national on-line short course on "Research
Ethics with Underserved Groups," January 2005
- D. Quigley, "Combining Indigenous Knowledge Systems with Western Science
Research Practices: Understanding the Ethical Nature of Matter," European
Society for the Study of Science and Religion" (ESSSAT), April 5, 2004,
Barcelona, Spain
- D. Quigley, "Embedded Knowledge", American Academy of Religion,
Eastern International Conference, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, May 2004.
- S. Wing, "Community-based Research Ethics", EPA, Boston, May 25,
2004.
- Silka, L. "Transforming Experiences: When Host Communities become Home
Communities," Memory, Identity and the Cambodian Spirit in Diapora, Association
for Asian Studies, Annual Meeting, May 2004.
- Niem Kret, Jessica Henry, D. Quigley, "Improving Dialogues for Research
Ethics in Environmental and Public Health" Report on Conference Outcomes,"
Crossroads Conference, Institute of Community Research, June 2004.
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