Faculty

Health Sciences

Supervisor Name

Elysée Nouvet

Keywords

Bioethics, Ebola, Decision-making, Relational autonomy, Guinea, Clinical Research Trial Participation

Description

In the aftermath of the West Africa Ebola outbreak, many grew familiar with the term “Ebola business”, a phrase serving as a shorthand for an assemblage of practices and possibilities that stood for the profitability potential of the deadly Ebola virus in the country. This is the backdrop for a CIHR-funded qualitative study aimed at advancing the understanding of whether and how those approached for clinical research post-Ebola, experienced those invitations and associated benefits.

My role consisted of supporting the analysis and expanding evidence-based understanding of when and on what basis, participants in foreign-funded and remunerated studies in high poverty and health need contexts, understand their choice to opt in or out of research.

Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Thank you to my supervisor, Dr. Elysée Nouvet from the Faculty of Health Sciences as well as Western Research, Western Libraries, and Student Experience for enhancing and supporting my USRI experience.

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Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 License
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An Analysis of Clinical Research Enrollment Decisions in Post-Ebola Guinea

In the aftermath of the West Africa Ebola outbreak, many grew familiar with the term “Ebola business”, a phrase serving as a shorthand for an assemblage of practices and possibilities that stood for the profitability potential of the deadly Ebola virus in the country. This is the backdrop for a CIHR-funded qualitative study aimed at advancing the understanding of whether and how those approached for clinical research post-Ebola, experienced those invitations and associated benefits.

My role consisted of supporting the analysis and expanding evidence-based understanding of when and on what basis, participants in foreign-funded and remunerated studies in high poverty and health need contexts, understand their choice to opt in or out of research.

 

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