The Philippine Health Research Ethics Board (PHREB) will conduct a Trainers’ Forum on University Research Ethics on September 13, 2016 at the University of Santo Tomas Hospital, Sampaloc, Manila. The trainer’s forum aims to facilitate knowledge gain in addressing ethical issues arising in student researches, particularly in the field of social science.

According to the PHREB-Committee on Information Dissemination, Training, and Advocacy (PHREB-CIDTA), empowering Research Ethics Committees (RECs) through capacitating its current PHREB trainers, members, as well as university lecturers and facilitators, is essential in ensuring the safety and general well-being of the research participants. The trainer’s forum will enable RECs to identify common ethical issues in student researches and come up with a consensus on how to address the issues with the research subjects in mind.

Prof. Peter A. Sy, Associate Professor of the Department of Philosophy – University of the Philippines Diliman (UP Diliman), and Dr. Liane P. Alampay, University Research Ethics Office Director of the  Ateneo De Manila University, will lead the forum to discuss basic research ethics principles, ethics in publication, regulations in university research ethics review, and emerging issues in the social science dimension of research.  Moreover, Atty. Marcia Ruth Gabriela P. Fernandez, Associate Professor of the Department of Sociology – UP Diliman will talk about the implications of the research data management as manifested in the Data Privacy Act of 2012.

The Trainers’ Forum on University Research Ethics will address the demand for more research ethics training program for health and health-related researches.   Thirty-five (35) participants, composed of PHREB members and university faculty-researchers, are expected to engage in the said forum.