Research Ethics
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Andrew Crowden has been interested in research ethics for many years. His current appointment is at the Mater Medical Research Institute in Brisbane where he is Chairperson of Mater Health Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC) and a member of the Clinical Ethics Committee. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor in association with the discipline of Medical Ethics, Law and Professional Practice in the School of Medicine and teaches Advanced Topics in Ethics in the School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Queensland. He has a continuing academic role as a researcher and chairperson of the Health Ethics Advisory Group (HEAG) in the Rural Health Academic Centre in the Melbourne Medical School at The University of Melbourne. Andrew is an active member of NHMRC’s HoMER Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Research sub-committee and the HoMER Monitoring sub-committee. He has been a member of the Victorian Government Consultative Council for Human Research Ethics, Chairperson of Austin Health HREC, Bioethicist on NorthEast Health Wangaratta HREC, the appointed Ethicist on the South Australian Human Research sub-Committee, Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences Dean’s Nominee to Deakin University HREC, and a member of Flinders University’s Mental Health Research Ethics Committee. |
AABHL Research Ethics Stream Update.
At the July AABHL conference a group of conference attendees met over lunch to discuss the future development of AABHL’s Research Ethics Stream activities. The discussion was lively, and many interesting suggestions were made. The group was realistic and recognised the potential difficulties associated with implementing changes to the way that the research ethics group currently functions. Even so, the group decided to communicate with the broader membership in order to ascertain the best way forward. Accordingly, I am contacting you (because you are a registered member of AABHL) to invite you to contribute suggestions/comments about the future role and function of the research ethics stream and specifically to request that you forward your brief responses to the questions that were raised at the meeting (listed below).
1. What is/should be the role of the research ethics stream of AABHL?
2. Should the AABHL establish a better (more interactive?) communication approach for the research ethics stream? How can we make the AABHL site be more accessible and active?
3. Is there a need to have a regular (one day?) Research Ethics conferences/seminars/workshops linked to the main AABHL conference (i.e., before or after)?
5. Should we circulate information/updates on research ethics matters to members?
6. Are there any options for funding a more active research ethics stream?
7. Other comments?