TWELFTH INTENSIVE SUMMER WORKSHOP ON ETHICS AND RESEARCH ORGANIZED BY THE CENTRE FOR ETHICS

The Centre for Ethics, Yenepoya (deemed to be University) organized its twelfth Intensive Summer Workshop on Ethics and Research from 24th May to 27th, 2022. Addressing at the inaugural session, Dr. Amar Jesani, an independent Bioethics Consultant and Editor, Indian Journal of Medical Ethics, appreciated the effort of Yenepoya (Deemed to be University) for conducting the summer workshop systematically for the past eleven years for training ethics committee members and researchers in India. He mentioned that India needs hundreds of institutions doing useful research giving importance to ethical aspects to develop research and science.

The main focus of the Intensive Summer Workshop on Ethics and Research (I-SWEAR) was to empower participants who are presently engaged in research or are serving on institutional ethics committees or are likely to serve in the coming years – the knowledge and tools to recognize and deal with various ethical issues arising out of research on human subjects.

The program also trained participants in Good Clinical Practice along the guidelines laid down by the International Committee on Harmonization (ICH-GCP) by Dr. Arun Bhatt, Consultant and is a joint editor-in-chief of Perspectives in Clinical Research - the journal of ISCR. Dr. Mala Ramanathan and Dr. Anant Bhan were the other resource persons who dealt on different issues of research ethics. Dr. Vina Vaswani, Dr. Ravi Vaswani, Dr. Uma Kulkarni, Dr. Imaad Mohammed Ismail, Dr. Grrishma Balakrishnan and Ms. Kadeejath Farzeena were the in-house faculty.

Participants from within the University and outside (Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, New Delhi, West Bengal, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Bhutan, Nigeria and Zimbabwe), from various disciplines such as Dental, Medical, Physiotherapy, Nursing & Hospital Administration had registered.