Call for Papers for Special Journal Issue on Ethical Considerations in Community-Based Participatory Research - November 1 Deadline

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Dear Migrant Health Research colleagues,

We are writing with 2 time-sensitive announcements you may be interested in:

(1) Registration is open for these upcoming calls in the Educational Conference

Call Series on Institutional Review Boards and Ethical Issues in Research:

Call #5 - Beyond the University IRB: Understanding Alternative Models for Human

Protections, Part II: Creating an Independent Community IRB - When is it Right

for You?

Monday, May 24, 2007 from 12:00-1:30 pm pacific time

https://catalysttools.washington.edu/survey/ccphuw/33263

Call #6 - IRB Reform: Changing Policy and Practice to Protect Communities

Monday, June 25, 2007 from 12:00-1:30 pm pacific time

https://catalysttools.washington.edu/survey/ccphuw/33264

For more information on the series, and links to audiofiles and handouts from

past calls, visit http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/pastpresentations.html

(2) CALL FOR PAPERS on Ethical Considerations in Community-Based Participatory

Research for SPECIAL ISSUE of the Journal of Empirical Research on Human

Research Ethics - November 1 Deadline

Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is characterized by authentic

partnerships, meaningful community engagement, and community capacity building

that combine knowledge with action to achieve social change. These features of

CBPR raise ethical issues that differ from those encountered in traditional

human research. We are inviting papers which explore these ethical issues,

including from international perspectives. Contributions may include

qualitative or quantitative studies (including case studies and those involving

CBPR) and reviews of empirical literature.

Examples of possible topics include, but are not limited to:

*Ethical concerns encountered in CBPR and how these are addressed by CBPR teams

and/or research ethics committees (RECs)

*Models for characterizing ethical concerns encountered in CBPR and/or for

evaluating outcomes of alternate approaches to addressing these concerns.

*Approaches for increasing understanding of CBPR among RECs.

*Models of community ownership and control over data collection, interpretation

and/or dissemination.

*Community-based mechanisms for research ethics review, e.g., community

advisory boards, community-based research committees, community-based RECs.

This effort to contribute to a literature on evidence-based ethical problem

solving in CBPR grows out of a partnership established between Community-Campus

Partnerships for Health (CCPH) and the Tuskegee University National Center for

Bioethics in Research and Health Care (the Bioethics Center) to advance their

shared goal of meaningfully involving communities in decisions made about every

aspect of research. CCPH is a growing network of over 1,500 communities and

campuses across North America and increasingly the world that are collaborating

to promote health through service-learning, community-based participatory

research, broad-based coalitions and other partnership strategies. (See

http://www.ccph.info) The Bioethics Center was established in 1999 to promote

equity and justice in health and health care by conducting education and

training programs, fostering respectful community partnerships, advancing

interdisciplinary research, and advocating public policies that improve the

health and health care of all Americans, particularly the underserved. (See

http://www.tuskegee.edu/Global/category.asp?C=35026)

Please email manuscripts to ccphirb@... on or before November 1,

2007. E-mail inquiries are welcomed; comments on outlines and draft

manuscripts will be provided upon request. Instructions on manuscript

preparation may be found at www.csueastbay.edu/JERHRE.

Special Issue Editors:

*Sarena D. Seifer, Community-Campus Partnerships for Health and University of

Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine

* Shore, University of New England and Community-Campus Partnerships for

Health

Consulting Editors:

* Northington Gamble, Tuskegee University National Center for Bioethics

in Research and Health Care

* Grignon, Community-Campus Partnerships for Health

*e Wong, Community-Campus Partnerships for Health

The Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics (JERHRE) is a

nonprofit, international, peer-reviewed journal published in print and online

formats. JERHRE is dedicated exclusively to empirical research on human

research ethics, including reviews and related methodological work. The basic

aim of JERHRE is to improve ethical problem solving in human research. JERHRE

is published by University of California Press, and appears online at

http://caliber.ucpress.net/loi/jer

The inaugural March 2006 issue is available free online at

http://caliber.ucpress.net/toc/jer/1/1

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