Short Courses in Research Ethics and Environmental

描述(由申请者提供)：“环境健康研究伦理合作倡议”寻求持续一年的项目活动，以将其工作扩展到其他地理位置，并就研究伦理的关键问题开发案例研究和培训资源，方法是：(A)促进对美国南部和东北部服务不足的非裔美国人、西班牙裔美国人和其他文化多元化社区的研究保护。该项目将在佐治亚州亚特兰大的黑人学院网络中为公共卫生和环境科学家开发大学短期课程，并向南方的非裔美国人社区开展外联计划。该项目将与国际扶轮的布朗大学合作，为医学院和公共卫生学校开发一门伦理课程，并在普罗维登斯和波士顿的拉美裔社区开展研究和培训活动。(B)改进受冷战辐射实验影响的人口的辐射流行病学研究和风险评估的道德行为。该项目将(1)对1990年以来对这些人群进行的辐射研究调查进行专家伦理审查。该项目团队将征求辐射健康研究人员、核工作人员和参与冷战辐射实验的公民的评论，并出版一本包含这些评论的集合和这些发现的总结报告的专著。这将传播给联邦卫生机构、辐射卫生政策制定者、公民和核工作者，以帮助确保这项研究的合乎道德的进行。(2)阿拉米达县卫生局将与来自劳伦斯·利弗莫罗实验室的不同科学、社区和政府利益攸关方一起，为钚污染的风险评估和管理开展一项重大的案例研究和伦理决策模式培训讲习班(C)开发案例研究和课程材料，以通过建立团体/社区在研究进行伦理方面的“权利(知情同意)”来解决道德不确定性；(D)通过开发一个国家网站课程，向不同人群提供关于环境健康研究伦理问题的全国推广和培训；参加国家/国际讲习班，并传播现有的培训资源，如课程教学大纲、案例研究/文章、参考书目和技术援助。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): "The Collaborative Initiative for Research Ethics in Environmental Health" seeks a throe-year continuation of its project activities to expand its work to other geographic locations and develop case studies and training resources on key issues in research ethics by (a) promoting research protections for underserved African-American, Hispanic, and other culturally-diverse communities in the South and Northeast U.S. The project will develop university short courses to public health and environmental scientists in the Black College network of Atlanta, GA and have an outreach program to African-American communities in the South. With Brown University in RI, the project will develop an ethics course for the medical and public health schools and conduct research and training activities to Latino communities in Providence and Boston. (b) Improving the ethical conduct of radiation epidemiological research and risk assessment for human populations affected by Cold War radiation experiments. The project will (1) conduct an expert ethical review of radiation research investigations of these populations conducted since 1990. The project team would solicit reviews from radiation health researchers; nuclear workers and citizens involved in Cold War radiation experiments and produce a monograph containing a collection of these reviews and a summary report of these findings. This will be disseminated to federal health agencies, radiation health policy-makers, citizens and nuclear workers to assist in ensuring the ethical conduct of this research. (2) The Alameda County Health Department will conduct a major case study and training workshops of a model for ethical decision-making with diverse scientific, community and government stakeholders for risk assessment and management of plutonium contamination from Lawrence Livermoro Labs (c) developing case studies and course materials for resolving moral uncertainties with establishing group/community" rights (for informed consent) in the ethical conduct of research (d) offering national outreach and training on research ethics issues in environmental health with diverse populations through the development of a national website course; the participation in national/international workshops and the dissemination of existing training resources such as course syllabi, case studies/articles, bibliographies and technical assistance.