community engagement

Community Engagement in Ethics and Ebola: Public Health Planning and Response

Learning Objectives

Students should be able to:

1. Discuss the importance of community engagement as it relates to public health emergency planning and response efforts.

2. Identify ways in which community engagement can facilitate ethical public health planning and response.

3. Consider different ways to engage communities in public health decision making both domestically and internationally.

 

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User Guide for Science Educators

The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues (Bioethics Commission) has developed educational materials for use in traditional and nontraditional educational settings.

The purpose of this guide is to highlight the most relevant materials for science educators at the undergraduate and high school levels to illustrate how they might be integrated into science courses. This list is not exhaustive; rather, it is meant to serve as a quick reference to some of the most relevant materials.

User Guide for Public Policy Educators

The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues (Bioethics Commission) has developed educational materials for use in traditional and nontraditional educational settings.

The purpose of this guide is to highlight the most relevant materials for public policy educators to illustrate how they might be integrated into public policy education and curricula. This list is not exhaustive; rather, it is meant to serve as a quick reference to some of the most relevant materials.

User Guide for Public Health Professionals

The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues (Bioethics Commission) has developed educational materials for use in traditional and nontraditional educational settings.

The purpose of this guide is to highlight the most relevant materials for public health educators to illustrate how they might be integrated into public health classes, seminars, and workshops. This list is not exhaustive; rather, it is meant to serve as a quick reference to some of the most relevant materials.

User Guide for Researchers

The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues (Bioethics Commission) has developed educational materials for use in traditional and nontraditional educational settings.

Community Engagement in New Directions: The Ethics of Synthetic Biology and Emerging Technologies

Learning Objectives

Students should be able to:

1. Discuss the importance of democratic deliberation as it relates to the development of synthetic biology and other emerging technologies.

2. Understand the guiding ethical principles for assessing emerging technologies and how they relate to the incorporation of synthetic biology technologies into society.

Community Engagement in Moral Science: Protecting Participants in Human Subjects Research

Learning Objectives

Students should be able to:

1. Discuss the benefits, challenges, and ethical reasons to conduct community-engaged research.

2. Understand and discuss the differences between community engagement, community consent, and informed consent and be able to apply each concept appropriately in reference to a given research project under consideration.

3. Consider different means by which to engage communities in domestic and international research and how to determine the desired level of engagement in research. 

 

Community Engagement in Privacy and Progress in Whole Genome Sequencing

Learning Objectives

Students should be able to:

1. Describe the importance of engaging communities in the sharing of whole genome sequence data.

2. Explain how community engagement helps advance the ethical principles articulated in Privacy and Progress.

3. Identify ways in which community engagement might facilitate the recommendations made in Privacy and Progress.

 

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Community Engagement Background

 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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