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Considering Risks to Researchers and Staff in Low-Resource Settings during Public Health Crises: A Proposed Conceptual Model
Human subjects research protections have historically focused on mitigating risk of harm and promoting benefits for research participants. In many low-resource settings (LRS), complex and often severe challenges in daily living, poverty, geopolitical uprisings, sociopolitical, economic, and climate...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10047058/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36980021 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children10030463 |
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author | Perez, Krystle M. Asim, Muhammad Weiss, Elliott M. Valentine, Gregory C. Kavi, Avinash Somannavar, Manjunath S. Iwuh, Ibezimako Chiweza, Chikondi Tickell, Kirkby D. Singa, Benson O. Beima-Sofie, Kristin Batra, Maneesh Walson, Judd L. Umoren, Rachel Kelley, Maureen Saleem, Sarah |
author_facet | Perez, Krystle M. Asim, Muhammad Weiss, Elliott M. Valentine, Gregory C. Kavi, Avinash Somannavar, Manjunath S. Iwuh, Ibezimako Chiweza, Chikondi Tickell, Kirkby D. Singa, Benson O. Beima-Sofie, Kristin Batra, Maneesh Walson, Judd L. Umoren, Rachel Kelley, Maureen Saleem, Sarah |
author_sort | Perez, Krystle M. |
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description | Human subjects research protections have historically focused on mitigating risk of harm and promoting benefits for research participants. In many low-resource settings (LRS), complex and often severe challenges in daily living, poverty, geopolitical uprisings, sociopolitical, economic, and climate crises increase the burdens of even minimal risk research. While there has been important work to explore the scope of ethical responsibilities of researchers and research teams to respond to these wider challenges and hidden burdens in global health research, less attention has been given to the ethical dilemmas and risk experienced by frontline researcher staff as they perform research-related activities in LRS. Risks such as job insecurity, moral distress, infection, or physical harm can be exacerbated during public health crises, as recently highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic. We highlight the layers of risk research staff face in LRS and present a conceptual model to characterize drivers of this risk, with particular attention to public health crises. A framework by which funders, institutions, principal investigators, and/or research team leaders can systematically consider these additional layers of risk to researchers and frontline staff is an important and needed addition to routine research proposals and protocol review. |
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spelling | pubmed-100470582023-03-29 Considering Risks to Researchers and Staff in Low-Resource Settings during Public Health Crises: A Proposed Conceptual Model Perez, Krystle M. Asim, Muhammad Weiss, Elliott M. Valentine, Gregory C. Kavi, Avinash Somannavar, Manjunath S. Iwuh, Ibezimako Chiweza, Chikondi Tickell, Kirkby D. Singa, Benson O. Beima-Sofie, Kristin Batra, Maneesh Walson, Judd L. Umoren, Rachel Kelley, Maureen Saleem, Sarah Children (Basel) Perspective Human subjects research protections have historically focused on mitigating risk of harm and promoting benefits for research participants. In many low-resource settings (LRS), complex and often severe challenges in daily living, poverty, geopolitical uprisings, sociopolitical, economic, and climate crises increase the burdens of even minimal risk research. While there has been important work to explore the scope of ethical responsibilities of researchers and research teams to respond to these wider challenges and hidden burdens in global health research, less attention has been given to the ethical dilemmas and risk experienced by frontline researcher staff as they perform research-related activities in LRS. Risks such as job insecurity, moral distress, infection, or physical harm can be exacerbated during public health crises, as recently highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic. We highlight the layers of risk research staff face in LRS and present a conceptual model to characterize drivers of this risk, with particular attention to public health crises. A framework by which funders, institutions, principal investigators, and/or research team leaders can systematically consider these additional layers of risk to researchers and frontline staff is an important and needed addition to routine research proposals and protocol review. MDPI 2023-02-26 /pmc/articles/PMC10047058/ /pubmed/36980021 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children10030463 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Perspective Perez, Krystle M. Asim, Muhammad Weiss, Elliott M. Valentine, Gregory C. Kavi, Avinash Somannavar, Manjunath S. Iwuh, Ibezimako Chiweza, Chikondi Tickell, Kirkby D. Singa, Benson O. Beima-Sofie, Kristin Batra, Maneesh Walson, Judd L. Umoren, Rachel Kelley, Maureen Saleem, Sarah Considering Risks to Researchers and Staff in Low-Resource Settings during Public Health Crises: A Proposed Conceptual Model |
title | Considering Risks to Researchers and Staff in Low-Resource Settings during Public Health Crises: A Proposed Conceptual Model |
title_full | Considering Risks to Researchers and Staff in Low-Resource Settings during Public Health Crises: A Proposed Conceptual Model |
title_fullStr | Considering Risks to Researchers and Staff in Low-Resource Settings during Public Health Crises: A Proposed Conceptual Model |
title_full_unstemmed | Considering Risks to Researchers and Staff in Low-Resource Settings during Public Health Crises: A Proposed Conceptual Model |
title_short | Considering Risks to Researchers and Staff in Low-Resource Settings during Public Health Crises: A Proposed Conceptual Model |
title_sort | considering risks to researchers and staff in low-resource settings during public health crises: a proposed conceptual model |
topic | Perspective |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10047058/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36980021 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children10030463 |
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