Research Ethics Resources

Historical Documents and International Protections

• Nuremberg Code, 1947
• The Declaration of Helsinki (the World Medical Association)
• The Belmont Report. Ethical principles and guidelines for the protection of human subjects of research

Federal Agencies

• Federal Office for Human Research Protections‘ International Compilation of Human Subject Research Protections, a listing of the laws, regulations, and guidelines that govern human subjects research in many countries around the world.
• Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues (Meeting reports, 2009-present)
  • Ethics and Ebola: Public Health Planning and Response (Feb, 2015)
  • Gray Matters: Integrative Approaches for Neuroscience, Ethics, and Society (May, 2014)
  • Anticipate and Communicate: Ethical Management of Incidental and Secondary Findings in the Clinical, Research, and Direct-to-Consumer Contexts (Dec, 2013)
  • Safeguarding Children: Pediatric Medical Countermeasure Research (Mar, 2013)
  • Privacy and Progress in Whole Genome Sequencing (Oct, 2012)
  • Moral Science: Protecting Participants in Human Subjects Research (Dec, 2011)
  • “Ethically Impossible” STD Research in Guatemala from 1946 to 1948 (Sep, 2011)
  • New Directions: The Ethics of Synthetic Biology and Emerging Technologies (Dec, 2010)
• Reports from past national bioethics commissions (1974-2009)
• Ethical Issues in Research Involving Human Participants