Core--Ethics, Policy, and Human Rights

描述(由申请人提供)：这是一份修订后的道德、政策和 人权核心(伦理核心)。随着艾滋病毒疫情的演变，并提出了新的挑战， 关于性别、性行为和艾滋病毒传播的研究提出了许多道德和人权问题，需要特别敏感地加以处理和探讨。伦理核心将在艾滋病毒中心内提供一个方案，供调查人员考虑、学习和调查疫情带来的关键伦理、人权和政策问题，以及与性别和人类性行为有关的更广泛的伦理问题。核心中心将与美国和国际上的人类参与者合作，与艾滋病毒中心附属的政府研究人员合作。此外，该核心将促进对艾滋病流行的伦理和人权层面的实证研究。最后，中心将评估中心工作所涉政策和人权问题。道德核心将在将项目提交给IRB和资助者之前以及在所有研究结束后传播结果之前，与中心调查人员就道德、政策和人权问题进行磋商。该中心还将在人类主题研究的伦理方面开展广泛的教育。具体来说，我们将 赞助一个研究伦理课程，一个关于知情同意技术的会议，一个IRB 博士后学徒制，以及探索新出现的道德挑战的会议。中心还将就性别、性取向和艾滋病毒研究提出的独特问题对IRB成员进行教育。中心将每年两次主办政策圆桌会议，重点讨论对中心工作具有广泛政策和人权意义的问题。通过季度核心研究研讨会以及与国际核心跨学科研究方法核心和研究能力发展核心的合作，伦理核心将促进对人类性行为、性别和艾滋病毒引起的伦理、人权和政策问题的实证研究。将通过网站、为教育会议编写的材料和出版物传播核心的工作。核心成功的指标将是发表同行评议的期刊文章和批准核心咨询或参与的赠款申请，作为评价的客观来源。此外，我们将每年调查研究人员和研究员对核心服务的满意度，并提出改进建议。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is a revised application for the Ethics, Policy, and Human Rights Core (the Ethics Core). As the HIV epidemic evolves, and poses new challenges, research on gender, sexuality and HIV transmission raises a host of ethical and human rights issues that need to be addressed and explored with particular sensitivity. The Ethics Core will provide a program within the HIV Center for investigators to consider, learn, and investigate critical ethical, human rights and policy issues posed by the epidemic as well as broader ethical matters related to gender and human sexuality. The Core will collaborate with HIV Center-affiliated government research with human participants in the US and internationally. Further, the Core will foster empirical research on ethical and human rights dimensions of the AIDS epidemic. Finally, the Core will assess the policy and human rights implications of the Center's work. The Ethics Core will consult on ethical, policy and human rights issues with Center investigators both prior to submission of projects to the IRB and to funders and at the conclusion of all studies before dissemination of results. The Core will also undertake broad-based education on the ethics of human subject research. Specifically, we will sponsor a Research Ethics Course, a conference on techniques of informed consent, an IRB apprenticeship for postdoctoral fellows, and meetings to explore new ethical challenges that emerge. The Core will also educate IRB members regarding questions uniquely raised by research on gender, sexuality, and HIV. Twice yearly, the Core will sponsor Policy Roundtables focused on matters of broad policy and human rights significance to the Center's work. Through quarterly Core Research Seminars and collaboration with the International Core Interdisciplinary Research Methods Core, and Research Capacity Development Core, the Ethics Core will foster empirical research into the ethical, human rights, and policy issues posed by human sexuality, gender, and HIV. Will disseminate the Core's work through a Website, materials developed for educational sessions, and publications. Indicators of the Core's success will be the publication of peer-reviewed journal articles and approval of grant applications on which the Core has consulted or been involved, as objective sources of evaluation. Also, we will survey investigators and fellows yearly about their satisfaction with Core services and suggestions for improvement.