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Article: Challenges to ethics review in health research.(Canada)
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- Health Law Review
- Article date:
- March 22, 2009
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"Whereas Parliament believes that health research should ... take
into consideration ethical issues ...." (1)
The legislation creating the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) in 2000 specifically mentioned ethics in the preamble (as noted above). This historic legislation first led to the inclusion of an ethics member in boards across the Institutes and the creation of an Ethics Office within CIHR. Prior to the creation of the CIHR, the Medical Research Council of Canada (MRC) had mandated ethics review and provided guidelines to researchers since 1978. (2) Indeed, it was the MRC that provided the initial leadership in the creation of a Tri-Council ...