This month's issue of Research Ethics Digest includes thought-provoking articles on topics including new research on conducting studies in Africa, institutional review boards overseas, and emerging informed consent issues.

Articles included:

• Obtaining Informed Consent for Genomics Research in Africa: Analysis of H3Africa Consent Documents
• Balancing Benefits and Risks of Immortal Data: Participants' Views of Open Consent in the Personal Genome Project
• Is it Ethical to Prevent Secondary Use of Stored Biological Samples and Data Derived from Consenting Research Participants? The Case of Malawi
• The Impact of Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) on Clinical Innovation: A Survey of Investigators and IRB Members
• Canadian Research Ethics Board Members’ Attitudes Toward Benefits from Clinical Trials
• Barriers to Effective Deliberation in Clinical Research Oversight
• Volunteer Experiences and Perceptions of the Informed Consent Process: Lessons from Two HIV Clinical Trials in Uganda
• Emergency Preservation and Resuscitation Trial: A Philosophical Justification for Non-Voluntary Enrollment
• Informed Consent for Research: A Cross-Sectional Survey on the Views of Parents of Sick Newborns
• Ethical Considerations Regarding Oral Preexposure Prophylaxis in HIV Prevention Trials
• Diversity in Clinical and Biomedical Research: A Promise Yet to Be Fulfilled
• Is Participating in Psychological Research a Benefit, Burden, or Both for Medically Ill Youth and Their Caregivers?
• Effects of Placebos without Deception Compared with No Treatment: Protocol for a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
• Ethical Aspects of Registry-Based Research in the Nordic Countries
• Adapting Ethical Guidelines for Adolescent Health Research to Street-connected Children and Youth in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Case Study from Western Kenya
• To Research (or not) that is the Question: Ethical Issues in Research When Medical Care is Disrupted by Political Action: A Case Study from Eldoret, Kenya
• How to Instill Clinical Trials Culture in Participants of Developing Countries
• Readiness of ethics review systems for a changing public health landscape in the WHO African Region
• Ethical Guidelines for Military-Based Health Research: An Unmet Need in Africa?
• Reducing Sample Size in Experiments with Animals: Historical Controls and Related Strategies
• Ten Practical Realities for Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees When Evaluating Protocols Dealing with Fish in the Field
• The Effects of Metabolic Cage Housing and Sex on Cognitive Bias Expression in Rats
• A Systematic Review of the Effects of Euthanasia and Occupational Stress in Personnel Working with Animals in Animal Shelters, Veterinary Clinics, and Biomedical Research Facilities

PRIM&R’s Research Ethics Digest, an electronic publication, delivers timely and relevant abstracts and full-text articles from a wide array of scholarly journals to the inboxes of PRIM&R members every two months. Articles featured in Research Ethics Digest highlight new research and scholarship related to ethics and regulation that affect—and potentially enhance—daily work.

The Research Ethics Digest Self-Study Program allows PRIM&R members to earn continuing education credits, which can be applied toward their Certified IRB Professional (CIP®) credential, Certified Professional in IACUC Administration (CPIA®) credential recertification, or other professional credentials they may hold.