The Tri-Council Policy Statement explicitly calls for proportionality as a guiding norm for
research ethics review. According to this statement,“Proportionate review is intended to …

Different ethical principles conflict in research conducted in emergency research. Clinical
care and its development should be based on research. Patients in critical clinical condition …

Research is needed to make responses to disasters and humanitarian emergencies more
evidence‐based. Such research must also adhere to the generally accepted principles of …

Guideline 20 of the updated International Ethics Guidelines for Health‐related Research
Involving Humans (2016) by the Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences …

Health researchers, research trainees, and ethics reviewers should be prepared for the
special application of research ethics within complex humanitarian emergencies. This paper …

A reliable safeguard against unethical research is “the presence of an intelligent, informed,
conscientious, compassionate, responsible investigator.” 4 Most cases of unethical research …

Research that enrolls people with acute, serious, and lifethreatening illnesses without their
informed consent, referred to as emergency research, presents substantial ethical …

Disaster research has grown in scope and frequency. Research in the wake of disasters and
during humanitarian crises–particularly in resource‐poor settings–is likely to raise profound …

1. Background Disasters in general and epidemics or outbreaks in particular raise and
magnify many ethical issues related to the provision and standard of health care delivery …

The number of research studies in the humanitarian field is rising. It is imperative, therefore,
that institutional review boards (IRBs) consider carefully the additional risks present in crisis …