Articles Include:

• “FDA Performance Goals for Approving Drugs and Biologics” by James Dabney Miller, 189-191.
• “The Need for Improved Access to FDA Reviews” by Alec B. O’Connor, 191-193.
• “Possible Outcomes of Comparative Effectiveness Research” by Robert H. Brook, 194-195.
• “Beyond Information: Exploring Patients’ Preferences” by Ronald M. Epstein and Ellen Peters, 195-197.
• “Resolving Unreported Conflicts of Interest” by Catherine D. DeAngelis and Phil B. Fontanarosa, 198-199.
• “Clinical Practice Guidelines and Scientific Evidence” by Susan L. Norris, 142.

Articles Include:

• “Stem Cell Aging and Aberrant Differentiation within the Niche” by Jinkuk Choi and Steven Artandi, 6.
• “Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Gametes: Truth and (Potential) Consequences” by Debra J.H. Mathews, Peter J. Donovan, John Harris, Robin Lovell-Badge, Julian Savulescu, and Ruth Faden, 11.
• “Achieving Harmony in Worldwide Stem Cell Policy?” by Arthur Caplan and Peter Bürkli, 16.
• “Ethics Report on Interspecies Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer Research” by Loane Skene, Giuseppe Testa, Insoo Hyun, Kyu Won Jung, Angela McNab, John Robertson, Christopher T. Scott, Jan Helge Solbakk, Patrick Taylor, and Laurie Zoloth, 27.
• “Induction of Pluripotency in Adult Unipotent Germline Stem Cells” by Kinarm Ko, Natalia Tapia, Guangming Wu, Jeong Beom Kim, Marcos J. Araúzo Bravo, Philipp Sasse, Tamara Glaser, David Ruau, Dong Wook Han, Boris Greber, Kirsten Hausdörfer, Vittorio Sebastiano, Martin Stehling, Bernd K. Fleischmann, Oliver Brüstle, Martin Zenke, and Hans R. Schöler, 87.
• “Gene Targeting of a Disease-Related Gene in Human Induced Pluripotent Stem and Embryonic Stem Cells” by Jizhong Zou, Morgan L. Maeder, Prashant Mali, Shondra M. Pruett-Miller, Stacey Thibodeau-Beganny, Bin-Kuan Chou, Guibin Chen, Zhaohui Ye, In-Hyun Park, George Q. Daley, Matthew H. Porteus, J. Keith Joung, and Linzhao Cheng, 97.
• “Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells and Embryonic Stem Cells Are Distinguished by Gene Expression Signatures” by Mark H. Chin, Mike J. Mason, Wei Xie, Stefano Volinia, Mike Singer, Cory Peterson, Gayane Ambartsumyan, Otaren Aimiuwu, Laura Richter, Jin Zhang, Ivan Khvorostov, Vanessa Ott, Michael Grunstein, Neta Lavon, Nissim Benvenisty, Carlo M. Croce, Amander T. Clark, Tim Baxter, April D. Pyle, Mike A. Teitell, Matteo Pelegrini, Kathrin Plath, and William E. Lowry, 111.

The South African Research Ethics Training Initiative, SARETI, is a joint project by the University of KwaZulu-Natal, the University of Pretoria, faculty from Johns Hopkins University, and the Fogarty International Center of the US National Institutes of Health to offer advanced learning in health research ethics. The programme is aimed at scientists, health professionals, members of ethics review committees, public health personnel, social scientists, philosophers, ethicists, health journalists, lawyers, and other professionals whose work impacts on health.

SARETI is an African programme in health research ethics that offers modular, academic and practical learning. Trainees develop the expertise required to ensure that health research in Africa has the welfare of individuals and of communities as its primary focus. SARETI offers Masters programmes (MPH and M Soc Sci with majors in health research ethics),  to 3-6 month self-funded Fellowships for senior professionals, to one-week intensive short courses.

SARETI announces the availability of scholarships that offer full financial support for two Masters degree trainees in 2010. These scholarships are available to professionals involved in health research ethics and health research and who are resident in Africa. (Scholarships for short courses / non-degree programme are not available for 2010, but self-funded students are welcome to apply for these programmes or particular modules.)

Applications for the 2010 Masters programme (which starts in January
2010) are invited. The closing date for applications is 21st August 2009. For further information and application forms, see SARETI’s website: http://www.up.ac.za/sareti or contact:

Mrs Carla Pettit, School of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, Development and Social Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal; Private Bag XO1; Scottsville 3209; Pietermaritzburg; South Africa; Tel:
+27-33-260-6162; Fax: +27 33 260 5809; E-mail: pettitc@ukzn.ac.za

OR

Ms Faith Seme, School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria, PO Box 667, Pretoria, 0001, South Africa; Tel:
+27 12 354 1002; Fax: +27 12 354 1367; Email: faith.seme@up.ac.za

Articles Include:

• “The Obligation to Participate in Biomedical Research” by G. Owen Schaefer, Ezekiel J. Emanuel, and Alan Wertheimer, 67-72.
• “Ethical Collection, Storage, and Use of Public Health Data: A Proposal for a National Privacy Protection” by Lisa M. Lee and Lawrence O. Gostin, 82-84.
• “Building Bridges Between Medical Care and Public Health” by Nicole Lurie; Allen Fremont, 84-86.
• “The Case for Public Ownership of Patient Data” by Marc A. Rodwin, 86-88.
• “Exploring the Harmful Effects of Health Care” by Charles M. Kilo and Eric B. Larson, 89-91.

Book and Media Reviews Include:

• “Aging, Biotechnology, and the Future” by David L. Streiner, 94-95.

Articles Include:

• “Towards a history of choice in UK health policy” by Ian Greener, 309-324.
• “Who’s minding the data? Data Monitoring Committees in clinical cancer trials” by Peter Keating and Alberto Cambrosio, 325-342.
• “‘It’s them faulty genes again’: women, men and the gendered nature of genetic responsibility in prenatal blood screening” by Kate Reed, 343-359.
• “‘Doing’ chronic illness? Complementary medicine use among people living with HIV/AIDS in Australia” by Rachel D. Thorpe, 375-389.
• “Physical and digital proximity: emerging ways of health care in face-to-face and telemonitoring of heart-failure patients” by Nelly Oudshoorn, 390-405.
• “The changing nature of prescribing: pharmacists as prescribers and challenges to medical dominance” by Marjorie C. Weiss and Jane Sutton, 406-421,
• “Economic inequality and population health: looking beyond aggregate indicators” by Petri Böckerman, Edvard Johansson, Satu Helakorpi, and Antti Uutela, 422-440.
• “Health-related stigma” by Graham Scambler, 441-455.

Book Reviews Include:

• “Pink Ribbons, Inc. Breast Cancer and the Politics if Philanthropy - by King, S., Breast Cancer Genes and the Gendering of Knowledge. Science and Citizenship in the Cultural Context of the ‘New’ Genetics - by Gibbon, S., Building Genetic Medicine. Breast Cancer Technology and the Comparative Politics of Health Care - by Parthasarathy, S. and Breast Cancer and the Post-Surgical Body. Recovering the Self - by Crompvoets, S.” by Laura Potts, 456-458.
• “Cancer Activism. Gender, Media, and Public Policy - by Kedrowski, K.M. and Sarow, M.S.” by François Briatte, 458-459.
• “Biobanks: governance in a comparative perspective - Edited by Gottweiss, H. and Petersen, A.” by Helen Busby, 460-461.
• “Risk and the Public Acceptance of New Technologies - Edited by Flynn, R. and Bellaby, P” by Andy Alaszewski, 461-462.

Articles Include:

• “More than cautionary tales: the role of fiction in bioethics” by Sarah Chan, 398-399.
• “HIV testing of junior doctors: exploring their experiences, perspectives and accounts” by L R Salkeld, S J McGeehan, E Chaudhuri, and I M Kerslake, 402-406.
• “The ethics of the placebo in clinical practice revisited” by P Louhiala, 407-409.
• “Reconsidering prenatal screening: an empirical–ethical approach to understand moral dilemmas as a question of personal preferences” by E García, D R M Timmermans, and E van Leeuwen, 410-414.
• “Bone marrow transplantation in the prevention of intellectual disability due to inherited metabolic disease: ethical issues” by P Louhiala, 415-418.
• “Understanding respect: learning from patients” by N W Dickert and N E Kass, 419-423.
• “Exploring morally relevant issues facing families in their decisions to monitor the health-related behaviours of loved ones” by D Gammon, E K Christiansen, and R Wynn, 424-428.
• “Is all fair in biological warfare? The controversy over genetically engineered biological weapons” by J M Appel, 429-432.
• “Genetic enhancements and expectations” by K Sorensen, 433-435.
• “Belgian euthanasia law: a critical analysis” by R Cohen-Almagor, 436-439.
• “Vulnerability in palliative care research: findings from a qualitative study of black Caribbean and white British patients with advanced cancer” by J Koffman, M Morgan, P Edmonds, P Speck, and I J Higginson, 440-444.
• “Limits to research risks” by F G Miller and S Joffe, 445-449.
• “Split views among parents regarding children’s right to decide about participation in research: a questionnaire survey” by  U Swartling, G Helgesson, M G Hansson, and J Ludvigsson, 450-458.

About The Conference

Science is a very important aspect of human life as it has led to advancements in knowledge and improvements in health and human life. Yet each day, practitioners in the areas of healthcare, medicine and research confront difficult questions that need responses as they seek to conduct themselves in ways that are expected by society. If Science is to serve mankind well, it needs to have a human face. The University of Botswana in partnership with the US Navy Medicine and the Uniformed Services University (USA) have organized an educational conference to be held at the University of Botswana from 6-10 December 2009. The theme of the conference is “Retrieving the Human face of Science: Understanding Ethics and Integrity in Healthcare, Medicine and Research”.

The Conference seeks to bring together practitioners in the area of health care, medicine and research to discuss Ethical issues and Integrity in Healthcare, Medicine and Research. Through keynote addresses, presentations and panel discussions, the conference will explore ways of bringing out the human face of science locally, nationally and globally. This conference will address the best evidence and action on the role of science diplomacy and the evidence and opportunities for action as we seek to integrate ethics and integrity into our institutional and national policies and programs.

Conference Highlights

We note with celebration that the first keynote will be given by His Grace, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Committee in South Africa on “Human Illness and the Experience of Vulnerability”. This will be followed by a second keynote by the US Navy Surgeon General, VADM Adam Robinson, MC, USN on “Hearing the Cries of the Poor: Healthcare as Human Response”. Conference evening events for networking and socializing will include a Bush Braii at the Mokolodi Nature Reserve (additional charge), as well as receptions hosted by the Vice Chancellor of the University of Botswana and the US Ambassador to Botswana.

Educational Technology Exposition

Michael Whitecar, The President of The Chief Information Group, Inc will hold an Educational Technology Exposition from 6-10 December 2009 in the UB Library. He will be demonstrating the usage of various technologies for use in learning and research.

Poster Session

A poster session related to the theme of the conference is also included and abstracts will be accepted until September 15th 2009. Space will be allocated for these posters in the conference venue for the duration of the Conference. Presenters will be expected to be at their posters during the conference breaks to answer questions and interact with

conference participants. Individuals interested in displaying a poster can contact ubethicsconference@mopipi.ub.bw for further information.

Conference registration

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Online registration for the conference is available here.

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