Ethics and Humanitarian Research: Generating Evidence Ethically
25-26 March 2019
Fawcett Event Center, 2400 Olentangy River Road, Columbus, OH 43210
The conference will be live-streamed at http://heporders.com/PREAconference
PREA Twitter is @Ethics_Analysis and the conference hashtag is: #PREAconference
Program
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Monday 25 March |
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| 8:00 EDT | Registration |
| 8:30-9:00 | Welcome and Introduction Jan Weisenberger, Senior Associate Vice President of Office of Research, The Ohio State University Wondwossen Gebreyes, Executive Director, Global One Health initiative, The Ohio State University Bernadette Melnyk, Vice President for Health Promotion, University Chief Wellness Officer, Dean and Professor, College of Nursing, The Ohio State University |
| 9:00-10:00 | Keynote 1: Emphasis on Beneficence in Research with Vulnerable Populations: Developing an Assessment Tool for Researchers
Veena Pillai, Dhi Consulting & Training, Malaysia |
| 10:00-11:00 | Oral Presentations 1: Participant/Researcher Tensions |
| 3 x 15 min presentations followed by 15 min Q&A | Unexpected and dangerous situations cropped during field research data collection for public Health Research: An Experience Sharing Morankar Sudhakar Narayan, Jimma University, Ethiopia |
| ‘Nobody wants you here’ – Lessons learned (the hard way) in researching medical humanitarian networks in Syria and Ukraine Sophie Roborgh, University of Manchester, UK |
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| Ethical challenges when conducting research in rural, post-conflict areas: experiences from South Sudan Janet Wanjiku Mugo, South Sudan |
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| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee |
| 11:30-1:00 | The Post-Research Ethics Analysis (PREA) Project |
| A systematic review of ethics and humanitarian health research Dónal O’Mathúna, The Ohio State University and Dublin City University, Ireland Steven Martin, Anglia Ruskin University, Chelmsford, UK |
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| Interviewing humanitarian researchers and other stakeholders Tine van Bortel and Ainul Hanafiah, University of East London, UK Nawaraj Upadhaya, HealthNet TPO, South Sudan Yimtubezinash Woldeamanuel Mulate, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia |
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| 1:00-2:00 | Lunch |
| 2:00-2:30 | The PREA Tool Dónal O’Mathúna, The Ohio State University and Dublin City University, Ireland |
| 2:30-3:30 | Oral Presentations 2: Gender and Reproductive Health |
| 3 x 15 min presentations followed by 15 min Q&A | Improving Women’s Autonomy in Humanitarian Crises through Qualitative Study Chitu Womehoma Princewill, National Biotechnology Development Agency, Abuja, Nigeria |
| Birth control strategies in disaster prone settings in India Packiaraj Asirvatham, Church of South India, India |
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| Conflicts of Child Marriage in Conflict: Who’s story is heard? Ayesha Ahmad, St. George’s University, London |
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| 3:30-4:00 | Coffee |
| 4:00-4:30 | The NIH Fogarty International Center: Advancing health research in humanitarian crises Amit Mistry, NIH Fogarty International Center, USAThe Nuffield Council on Bioethics: Contributing to debate on the ethical conduct of research in global health emergencies Katharine Wright, Nuffield Council on Bioethics, UK |
| 4:30-5:30 | Keynote 2: A living laboratory? Ethics and experimentality in humanitarian innovation
Matthew Hunt, McGill University, Quebec, Canada |
| 5:30-6:30 | Reception with Poster Presenters each giving a 2-minute talk on their posters |
| 6:30 | Conference Dinner (for registered attendees only) |
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Tuesday 26 March |
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| 8:00 | Registration |
| 8:30-9.30 | Keynote 3: Consent complexities, Ebola, and the fine line between collaboration and exploitation in research conducted during public health emergencies
Elysée Nouvet, Western University School of Health Studies, Ontario, Canada |
| 9:30-10:30 | Oral Presentations 3: Tools and Assessments |
| 3 x 15 min presentations followed by 15 min Q&A | Avoiding the Same Mistakes: Understanding and Countering Bias in the Deployment of Artificial Intelligence for Humanitarian Assessments Tino Kreutzer, York University, Canada |
| Selected Principles for Ethical Social and Behavior Change Communication Tom Jacobson and Nicole LeMire Garlic, Temple University, USA |
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| Do approaches to the training and supervision of researchers promote or constrain ethical research practice in humanitarian settings? Anna Chiumento, University of Liverpool, UK |
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| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee |
| 11:00-12:00 | Ethics and Humanitarian Innovation: different approaches and learning from humanitarian research
Anna Skeels, Humanitarian Innovation Fund, Elrha, UK (Moderator) |
| 12:00-1:30 | Conversations about Research Ethics (CARE) panel with boxed lunch
Panel Conversation on Research in Humanitarian Crises |
| 1:30-2:30 | Oral Presentations 4: Communities in Crisis |
| 3 x 15 min presentations followed by 15 min Q&A | Ethics of conducting research in crisis settings: How does Flint measure up? Ike Valentine Iyioke, Michigan State University, USA |
| Research with vulnerable populations in humanitarian crises: ethical challenges and overlooked areas Rebecca Barber, Centre for Humanitarian Leadership, Deakin University, Australia |
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| Representation of Minorities in Research: A View from the Community Sudarshan Pyakurel, Bhutanese Community of Central Ohio |
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| 2:30-3:00 | Coffee |
| 3:00-4:00 | Oral Presentations 5: Researcher Training and Support |
| 3 x 15 min presentations followed by 15 min Q&A | Ethical Decision-Making in Situations of Extreme Violence: A Case Study of Syria Courtland Robinson, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA |
| Moral distress among disaster responders: what is it, and can we do anything about it? A scoping review. Martina Gustavsson, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden |
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| The Experience of Conducting Ethical Review during the Ebola Virus Disease Emergency in Liberia Jemee K. Tegli, University of Liberia-Atlantic Center for Research & Evaluation (UL-PIRE) Africa IRB, Liberia |
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| 4:00-5:00 | Keynote 4: Is there an upper limit to the risks that humanitarian research may legitimately visit upon research participants? Nir Eyal, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, USARespondent: Kevin Passino, Humanitarian/Development Engineering, College of Engineering, The Ohio State University |
| 5:00 | Closing Ceremony Ryan Nash, Center for Bioethics, The Ohio State University Dónal O’Mathúna, The Ohio State University and Dublin City University, Ireland |