Learning Objectives

Students should be able to:

1. Define community engagement and describe the different mechanisms of applying it as an approach to conducting research.

2. Describe the goals of community engagement.

3. Discuss the ethical basis for community engagement.

4. Identify and consider some of the challenges encountered in research-related community engagement. 

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Learning Objectives

Students should be able to:

1.Describe current informed consent procedures for whole genome sequencing.

In 2011, the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues (the Bioethics Commission) issued “Ethically Impossible” STD Research in Guatemala from 1946 to 1948. The report is the result of its ethical analysis aimed at uncovering the specifics of the U.S.