UM SOM: Health Research Ethics Training Initiative In Egypt (HRETIE)

Alaa Hammad Ali Abou-Zeid, MD, MPH

Lecturer Public Health
Cairo University, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo, Egypt
alaabouzeid@yahoo.com

Research Ethics Committee

• 2003 – present: Member, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University

Ethics Education Activities

Lecture Portfolio

• Analysis of Risks and Benefits in Clinical Research

Workshops

• Analysis of Risks and Benefits in Clinical Research; National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt; March 2006

• Analysis of Risks and Benefits in Clinical Research, Suez Canal University, December, 2005.

Presentation at Scientific Conferences

• Abou-Zeid A, Afzal M, Silverman H. Adequacy of Ethical Review and Informed Consent Documents in Investigations Submitted For Funding to the Eastern Mediterranean Region of the World Health Organization. 2006 Annual HRPP Conference, Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research (PRIM&R). Washington, D.C., November 15-18, 2006

Ethics Research Activities

• Ethical considerations for health research in Genomics and Biotechnology in the Eastern Mediterranean Region of the World Health Organization.

• Informed consent as an ethical requirement for health research in the Eastern Mediterranean Region of the World Health Organization.

• International survey of scientists’ and policy makers’ attitudes towards research on stored human biological materials.

Other

• Development of Informed Consent Module, CITI International Training Website, http://www.irbtraining.org

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