Here you can find links to resources on methodological issues.

This is a new page under development and more resources will be added.

Research Ethics

World Medical Association

Declaration of Helsinki

The Declaration is being reviewed by the WMA in 2008. WCPT is a registered stakeholder.

Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences (CIOMS)

International ethical guidelines for biomedical research involving human subjects

Draft International Ethical Guidelines for Epidemiological Studies

World Health Organization

Ethical standards and procedures for research with human beings

Operational guidelines for ethics committees that review biomedical research

Strategic Initiative for Developing Capacity in Ethical Review  ( The primary objective of SIDCER is to contribute to human subject protections globally by developing local capacity for ethical review of research involving human subjects and for developing policies on the ethics of health research.)

Country Sepcific

Australia - National Health & Medical Research Council

Canada - National Council on Ethics in Human Research (NCEHR), a non governmental organization established in 1989 and incorporated in 2003

UK - National Research Ethics Service

UK - Economic & Social Research Council - Research Ethics Framework

UK - Medical Research Counicl - Ethics & Research Governance

USA - National Institutes of Health Office of Human Subjects Research

Resources

ERIC - Ethics Research Information Catalogue (Includes a database With material on research ethics and links to relevant websites)

National Institute for Health (USA) - Bioethics Resources on the web

University of Cambridge (UK) - Ethics in Science and Medicine resources - includes book references, journals and governmental departments

Nuffiled Council on Bioethics - The ethics of research related to healthcare in developing countries