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Finally, there are ethics consultation services for large-scale science. An
example of this would be the ethics, social, and cultural programme of
the Gates Grand Challenges. This initiative has two functions. One is an
advisory service which works with scientists in the Grand Challenges to
identify emerging ethical issues that may prevent barriers to the conduct
of science. Successful examples of this interaction would be the creation
of an ethics review board for stem cell research in China and assistance
and community engagement for field trials of genetically modified mos-
quitoes(24).
Finally, I turn my attention initiatives within my own institution. At
the University of Toronto in 2006 an interest group was started called
Research and Education in Research Ethics [(RE)2]. What started with
monthly meetings of 5 or 6 individuals has now expanded to a bi-monthly
meeting with over 30 members. Membership comes from members of
REBs, graduate students, and academics interested in research ethics. It is
open to all who are interested in the scholarly dimensions of research. Its
mission is to foster education and research in research ethics and that is to
turn some of the central challenges of research ethics and ethics oversight
into quality assurance, quality improvement, and empirical research is-
sues. We found that there are a growing number of graduate students do-
ing doctoral level research on elements of research ethics and that the field
is interdisciplinary and interprofessional and admits to both empirical and
conceptual embracing of philosophy, law, and other academic disciplines.
We are now linked to a national network of scholars devoted to research
ethics in Canada.
Increasingly if one changes the culture of research in one’s institution,
one would find the opportunity to innovate with different intervention
approaches to assess what may actually be a better way of managing or
governing human subjects research.