Ethics and Policy Core

美国和发展中国家不断增长和演变的艾滋病毒流行病继续构成 许多关键的道德和政策问题。随着研究人员开始 在不熟悉的环境中工作，并与发展中国家的新人口一起工作。此外，鉴于具体 艾滋病毒感染者或高危人群的脆弱性，尤其重要的是， 必须按照严格的道德标准进行。道德和政策核心（EPC）将加强 该中心的能力，以解决这些问题，通过三个整体职能提供咨询， 促进教育，并在两个广泛领域进行实证研究：1）多个领域的政策问题 各级-国际、国家、地方、机构和专业（即，包括各种卫生政策， 护理机构和环境），以及2）与感染或有感染风险的人进行研究的伦理 感染艾滋病毒。伦理委员会建立在艾滋病毒中心过去在伦理和政策方面的工作基础上， 将研究伦理和政策与经济学之间的关系纳入新的重点。的 EPC将与中心研究人员就以下相关的政策影响和研究伦理进行磋商： 他们的工作，因为他们进行研究，开发新的研究计划，准备赠款和IRB 应用程序，分析结果，并撰写手稿。EPC还将提供和加强教育 在中心和更广泛的社区的调查人员和受训人员中讨论道德和政策问题 通过研讨会、会议和圆桌讨论，以及应用伦理学项目， 新的调查员。核心小组还将通过独立研究或增加 伦理和政策问题的研究，以现有的中心研究。核心将帮助识别 伦理和政策问题，需要，并且可以，进行实证研究，并可以追求的PI（或 从核心或中心的其余部分）。因此，核心将大大增加整个中心， 为中心注入这些领域的关键专业知识和活动， 在政策，研究伦理和广泛的许多其他领域的理解和方法 艾滋病防治领域。具体而言，核心将使中心的调查人员，在关键方面， 否则，他们就不会发展其工作的政策影响，促进这种做法， 研究伦理的理解，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.