Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI): Collaborative workshop to develop a multidisciplinary social science and ethics research agenda to held at Kilifi, Kenya on 21-23 June 2007.

Workshop: Multidisciplinary workshop co-ordinated ointly by KEMRI, MalariaGEN and the Ethox Centre, Kilifi, June 2007 Introduction: The growing complexity of human genetic science, combined with its increasing dependence on the creation and maintenance of global networks, bringing together actors from many countries, make it increasingly important to find innovative social science research methodologies for understanding such science and its implications. Furthermore, the globalised and complex nature of genomic research, combined with the new technologies associated with such research which allow for the diffusion of detailed, individual-level genetic information on a global scale, the effects o which for research participants and communities have not yet been properly addressed, calls for the development of innovative methods for the engagement of research participants, communities, ethics committee members, fellow scientists and other relevant actors. It is likely that multidisciplinary research aimed at understanding the globalised and dynamic nature of genomics will itself need to be global in scope and methods, bringing together in innovative ways, research teams in developed and developing countries. The research teams at EKMRI and at the Ethox Centre/MalariaGEN have each developed significant and complementary multidisciplinary research programmes addressing the ethical and social aspects of genomic research in developing countries. These research teams have also between them established productive and ongoing relationships with scientists, clinicians and communities implicated in such research. The proposed workshop would bring together members of these two teams, along with other key researchers and stakeholders, in order to share research experiences, explore possible research agendas, and develop research collaborations with the potential to add value to existing research activities. The main aim of this workshop would be to bring together the ethics and social science research teams of KEMRI and MalariaGEN with a number of other local and international stakeholders and possible future collaborators, to share research experiences, to discuss emerging themes in the ethics of human genetic research in Africa set in a global context, and to identify challenging research avenues.

Programme: Symposium

Source: The Wellcome Trust, 360Giving data via the 360Giving API, published under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Read from https://api.threesixtygiving.org/api/v1/org/GB-CHC-210183/grants_made/?limit=1000&offset=7000. Reshaped by All Business Africa into this record; amounts and currency are as the funder states them.