Streamlining ethics review for international health research

Science. 2022 Feb 25;375(6583):825-826. doi: 10.1126/science.abn0675. Epub 2022 Feb 24.

¹ Institute for Bioethics, Health Policy and Law, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, KY, USA.
² Centre of Genomics and Policy, McGill University Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Montreal, QC, Canada.
³ University of Witswatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
⁴ Centre for Medical Ethics and Law and the Department of Law, University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, PRC.
⁵ Department of Human Genetics and John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA.
⁶ Oxford University, Oxford, UK.
⁷ Ewha Law School, Seoul, South Korea.
⁸ Centre for Health, Bioethics and Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Nigeria, Enugu, Nigeria.
⁹ Office of Research Subject Protection, The Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Abstract

Single-site review means protection and efficiency.