How Ethics Committees and Requirements are Structuring Health Research in the Philippines: A Qualitative Study

• Main Authors: Lasco, Gideon, Yu, Vincen Gregory, Palileo-Villanueva, Lia M
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2021
• Subjects: Research ethics committees; Institutional review boards; Research ethics; Health research; Research inequity; Philippines; Health Services Research; Public Health
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/dev-stud-faculty-pubs/74; https://archium.ateneo.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1072&context=dev-stud-faculty-pubs
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Background The last few decades have seen the rising global acknowledgment of the importance of ethics in the conduct of health research. But research ethics committees or institutional review boards (IRBs) have also been criticized for being barriers to research. This article examines the case of t...