Ethics and Policy Core

美国和发展中国家不断增长和演变的艾滋病毒疫情继续构成 许多关键的道德和政策问题。随着研究人员的开始，这些问题变得更加尖锐 在不熟悉的环境中工作，并与发展中国家的新人口打交道。此外，考虑到特定的 鉴于艾滋病毒携带者或艾滋病毒高危人群的脆弱性，与艾滋病毒相关的研究尤为重要 必须按照严格的道德标准进行。道德和政策核心(EPC)将加强 中心通过提供咨询的三个总体职能解决这些问题的能力， 促进教育，并在两个广泛的领域进行实证研究：1)多个领域的政策问题 各级--国际、国家、地方、机构和专业(即，包括各种保健政策 护理机构和环境)，以及2)对感染者或有患病风险的人进行研究的伦理 感染艾滋病毒。EPC建立在艾滋病毒伦理和政策中心过去工作的基础上，还将 将新的重点放在研究伦理和政策与经济的关系上。这个 EPC将就以下方面的政策影响和研究伦理与中心调查人员进行磋商 他们的工作是进行研究、开发新的研究计划、准备赠款和IRB 申请，分析研究结果，并撰写手稿。EPC还将提供和加强教育 关于中心和更广泛社区中的调查人员和受训人员的道德和政策问题 通过研讨会、会议和圆桌讨论，以及 较新的调查人员。核心还将通过独立研究或通过添加 将伦理和政策问题的研究扩展到现有的中心研究研究。核心将帮助识别 道德和政策问题，需要和可以进行实证研究，并可以由PIS(或 从核心或中心的其余部分)。因此，核心将大大增加中心作为一个整体， 向中心灌输这些领域的关键专业知识和活动，以帮助扩展 对政策、研究伦理和许多其他领域的理解和方法 艾滋病毒预防和治疗领域。具体地说，核心将在关键方面支持中心调查人员 否则，他们不会制定其工作的政策含义，促进实践和 理解研究伦理，使用实证方法研究关键的政策问题。

The ever-growing and evolving HIV epidemic in both the US and the developing world continues to pose numerous critical ethical and policy issues. These are becoming all the more acute as researchers begin work in unfamiliar settings and with new populations in the developing world. Further, given the particular vulnerability of people living with or at high risk of HIV, it is especially crucial that HIV-related research be conducted according to stringent ethical standards. The Ethics and Policy Core (EPC) will enhance the Center's ability to address these issues through three overall functions of providing consultation, fostering education, and conducting empirical research on two broad areas: 1) policy issues at multiple levels- international, national, local, institutional and professional (i.e., including policies in various health care institutions and settings), and 2) ethics of research with people who are infected with or at risk for infection with HIV. The EPC builds on the past work of the HIV Center in ethics and policy and will also incorporate new emphases on research ethics and the relationship between policy and economics. The EPC will consult with Center investigators concerning policy implications and research ethics related to their work as they conduct research, develop new research initiatives, prepare grants and IRB applications, analyze findings, and write manuscripts. The EPC will also provide and enhance education on ethical and policy issues among investigators and trainees in the Center and in broader communities through seminars, conferences and roundtable discussions, as well as a Program in Applied Ethics for newer investigators. The Core will also conduct research either through stand-alone studies or by adding studies of ethical and policy questions onto existing Center research studies. The Core will help identify ethical and policy issues that need to, and can, be studied empirically, and can be pursued by Pis (either from the Core or the rest of the Center). Thus, the Core will add significantly to the Center as a whole, infusing into the Center critical expertise and activities in these areas that can help expand understandings and approaches in policy, research ethics, and numerous other domains within the broad area of HIV prevention and treatment. Specifically, the Core will enable Center investigators, in key ways they would not otherwise, develop policy implications of their work, promote the practice and understanding of research ethics, examine crucial policy issues using empirical approaches.