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Environmental health and justice and the right to research: institutional review board denials of community-based chemical biomonitoring of breast milk
Recently, conflicts and challenges have emerged regarding environmental justice and research ethics for some indigenous communities. Alaska Community Action on Toxics (ACAT) responded to community requests for breast milk biomonitoring and conceived the Breast Milk Pilot Study (BMPS). Despite having...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4659157/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26606980 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12940-015-0076-x |
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author | Saxton, Dvera I. Brown, Phil Seguinot-Medina, Samarys Eckstein, Lorraine Carpenter, David O. Miller, Pamela Waghiyi, Vi |
author_facet | Saxton, Dvera I. Brown, Phil Seguinot-Medina, Samarys Eckstein, Lorraine Carpenter, David O. Miller, Pamela Waghiyi, Vi |
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description | Recently, conflicts and challenges have emerged regarding environmental justice and research ethics for some indigenous communities. Alaska Community Action on Toxics (ACAT) responded to community requests for breast milk biomonitoring and conceived the Breast Milk Pilot Study (BMPS). Despite having community support and federal and private funding, the BMPS remains incomplete due to repeated disapprovals by the Alaska Area IRB (Institutional Review Board). In this commentary, we explore the consequences of years of IRB denials, in terms of health inequalities, environmental justice, and research ethics. We highlight the greater significance of this story with respect to research in Alaska Native communities, biomonitoring, and global toxics regulation. We offer suggestions to community-based researchers conducting biomonitoring projects on how to engage with IRBs in order to cultivate reflective, context-based research ethics that better consider the needs and concerns of communities. |
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spelling | pubmed-46591572015-11-26 Environmental health and justice and the right to research: institutional review board denials of community-based chemical biomonitoring of breast milk Saxton, Dvera I. Brown, Phil Seguinot-Medina, Samarys Eckstein, Lorraine Carpenter, David O. Miller, Pamela Waghiyi, Vi Environ Health Commentary Recently, conflicts and challenges have emerged regarding environmental justice and research ethics for some indigenous communities. Alaska Community Action on Toxics (ACAT) responded to community requests for breast milk biomonitoring and conceived the Breast Milk Pilot Study (BMPS). Despite having community support and federal and private funding, the BMPS remains incomplete due to repeated disapprovals by the Alaska Area IRB (Institutional Review Board). In this commentary, we explore the consequences of years of IRB denials, in terms of health inequalities, environmental justice, and research ethics. We highlight the greater significance of this story with respect to research in Alaska Native communities, biomonitoring, and global toxics regulation. We offer suggestions to community-based researchers conducting biomonitoring projects on how to engage with IRBs in order to cultivate reflective, context-based research ethics that better consider the needs and concerns of communities. BioMed Central 2015-11-25 /pmc/articles/PMC4659157/ /pubmed/26606980 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12940-015-0076-x Text en © Saxton et al. 2015 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Commentary Saxton, Dvera I. Brown, Phil Seguinot-Medina, Samarys Eckstein, Lorraine Carpenter, David O. Miller, Pamela Waghiyi, Vi Environmental health and justice and the right to research: institutional review board denials of community-based chemical biomonitoring of breast milk |
title | Environmental health and justice and the right to research: institutional review board denials of community-based chemical biomonitoring of breast milk |
title_full | Environmental health and justice and the right to research: institutional review board denials of community-based chemical biomonitoring of breast milk |
title_fullStr | Environmental health and justice and the right to research: institutional review board denials of community-based chemical biomonitoring of breast milk |
title_full_unstemmed | Environmental health and justice and the right to research: institutional review board denials of community-based chemical biomonitoring of breast milk |
title_short | Environmental health and justice and the right to research: institutional review board denials of community-based chemical biomonitoring of breast milk |
title_sort | environmental health and justice and the right to research: institutional review board denials of community-based chemical biomonitoring of breast milk |
topic | Commentary |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4659157/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26606980 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12940-015-0076-x |
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