Annual meeting of the Eastern Mediterranean Research Ethics Review Committee
November 2019 – Committee members meet annually for strategic planning and to ensure compliance of health research in the Region with WHO policies and international guidelines for research on human subjects. The meeting reviewed progress on the recommendations of the previous meeting in 2018, planned the Committee's work for the new biennium (2020–2021), and discussed upcoming regional bioethics summits and new challenges for the ethics of health research.
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Eastern Mediterranean/Arab States regional summit of national ethics and bioethics committees
December 2019 – Dr Ahmed Al-Mandhari, WHO Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean and Dr Ghaith Fariz, Director of the UNESCO Regional Bureau for Sciences in the Arab States inaugurated the “Second Eastern Mediterranean/Arab States Regional Summit of National Ethics and Bioethics Committees” which was held in Cairo, Egypt, on 15‒16 December 2019. Participants attended from Djibouti, Egypt, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Oman, Palestine, Pakistan (via Skype), Saudi Arabia, Syrian Arab Republic, Tunisia and Yemen.
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British University in Egypt’s conference on “Biomedicine and bioethics: contemporary, international and regional perspectives”
The Faculty of Law, British University in Egypt, organized a conference on biomedicine and bioethics on 3 November 2019, in response to the increasing attention of the international legal community to the scheme of natural sciences. Topics included the myth of human species improvement, international doctrines on biomedicine and bioethics and the position of Islamic jurisprudence towards the challenges of biomedicine (fiqh).
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Ethics in scientific writing and journal publishing
October 2019 – WHO and the Eastern Mediterranean Association of Medical Editors (EMAME) held a two-day workshop on ethics in scientific writing and journal publishing for more than 25 biomedical journal editors. The workshop took place at the Iran University of Medical Sciences in Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran.
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Supporting WHO collaborating centres in Egypt
October 2019 – A one day meeting was conducted in WHO/EMRO in collaboration with WHO Country Office of Egypt with potential institutions in Egypt to be WHO Collaborating Centers. The participants represented different institutions and academia in Egypt in addition to departments from Ministry of health and Population. The objectives of the meeting were to introduce rules and policies regulating (re)designation of collaborating centres and streamlining their collaboration with WHO’s programme of work; and orient the centres with regards to Eastern Mediterranean Region’s Vision 2023.
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Capacity-building in tropical disease implementation research
October 2019 – A three-day workshop was conducted on 29–31 October 2019, in collaboration with WHO’s Special Programme for Research and training in Tropical Diseases and Arabian Gulf University in Bahrain, to introduce participants to key principles of implementation research.
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First training of trainers on ethics in implementation research
December 2019 – The first training of trainers on ethics in implementation research was held in the WHO Regional Office on 17 December 2019, in collaboration with WHO headquarters. The objectives of the training were to provide an introduction to implementation research, discuss ethical considerations, introduce ethical issues in planning, conducting and implementation and provide in–depth ethical analysis of implementation research using case studies.
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- The Eastern Mediterranean Advisory Committee for Health Research will be holding its next meeting on 17–18 February 2020.
- Expert consultation on: Digital Health & Innovation, WHO/EMRO, Cairo, Egypt, 23-25 February, 2020
- Global Bioethics Summit, Lisbon, Portugal, 18-20 March, 2020
- International Conference on Scientific Research Management, Muscat, Oman, 30-31 March, 2020
- 4th Arab Conference on Food, Drug and Medical Devices, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 6-8 April, 2020
- Call for RPPH Proposals, April 2020
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