The Global Forum on Bioethics in Research (GFBR) exists to provide a global platform for the exchange and sharing of experience and expertise on research ethics among researchers, research policy makers and ethicists, among others. The GFBR also facilitates debate on ethical, social, legal and public policy issues related to health research, and specifically of research involving countries from the north conducting research in the south.
The purpose, history and future functioning of the GFBR is described in the 2014 article ‘The Global Forum for Bioethics in Research – Past, present and future‘.
Anant Bhan, India; Katherine Littler, UK; Michael Parker, UK; Rachel Knowles, UK; Barbara Sina, USA; Douglas Wassenaar, South Africa; Ross Upshur, Canada, Paul Ndebele, USA; Phaik Yeong Cheah, Thailand, Teck Chuan Voo, Singapore, Carla Saenz, USA and Dan O’Connor, UK.
These aims are kept under review and refined at the Steering Committee of Partners meeting held during each meeting.
A Planning Committee is convened to support the annual GFBR meeting, including members with expertise and experience in relation to the meeting theme. Members of the 2019 Planning Committee are:
Fabiana Arzuaga, Ministry of Science, Technology and Productive Innovation, Argentina; Jantina de Vries, University of Cape Town, South Africa; Paulina Tindana, University of Ghana, Ghana; Elinor Wanyama Chemonges, Uganda Virus Research Institute, Uganda; Maneesha Inamdar, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, India; Jim Lavery, Emory University, USA, Claudia Emerson, McMaster University, Canada; Peter Mills, Nuffield Council on Bioethics, UK; Samantha O’Loughlin, Imperial College London, UK; Lucy Carter, The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia; Michael Selgelid, Monash Bioethics Centre, Australia; Katherine Littler, World Health Organisation, Switzerland and Teck Chuan Voo, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
Funding is provided by The Wellcome Trust, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the National Institutes of Health and the UK Medical Research Council.
The Secretariat for the GFBR is currently provided by the Wellcome Trust.
Prior to 2009 the Secretariat was hosted by COHRED, supported by a grant from the Science and Society programme of the EU’s 6th Framework Programme on science and technology.
Aga Khan University (AKU)
Canadian Institutes of Health Research / Instituts de recherche en santé du Canada (CIHR – IRSC)
Council on Health Research for Development (COHRED)
European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP)
Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO)
Health Research Council of New Zealand
Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)
Medical Research Council-United Kingdom (MRC UK)
National Institutes of Health-Fogarty International Center (NIH-FIC)
Vilnius University
Wellcome Trust
World Health Organisation (WHO)
Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO)