Infectious diseases, epidemiology, and social networks at the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, NUS
This is a longer version of a letter we published in The Lancet Global Health (Tam CC, Offeddu V. Preserving dignity and anonymity at scientific conferences. Lancet Global Health 2017;5(4):e398). You can access the published version here. Numerous guidelines exist to encourage the proper conduct and reporting of medical research. The Helsinki Declaration1, on which most…
Recently, I had the privilege of attending an Ethical Review of Biomedical Research short course at the National University of Singapore. It was a brutal four days of discussing difficult case studies that Institutional Review Boards face regularly when reviewing the ethical grounds for biomedical scientific research. It brought up many interesting themes for me,…