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Research Ethics
Current Projects
Informing Participants in the National Children’s Study
2005-2009: National Institute of Child Health and Development (Subcontract from Booz Allen Hamilton)
The National Institute of Child Health and Development (NICHD) is launching a landmark study that will approach 400,000 women to seek their interest in participating in the National Children’s Study. Ultimately, the NCS hopes that 100,000 women and their children will be enrolled and followed until the children are 21 years of age. This will be an historic study, akin to – and far larger than – the Framingham Heart Study. Booz Allen Hamilton and the NICHD have turned to CAE for innovative ideas about how best to ensure that women understand the roles, obligations, risks, and benefits of participation. CAE is building an innovative, interactive electronic tool to provide prospective participants with the information necessary to make an informed decision regarding participation.
NIH Bioethics Science Curriculum Supplement for High School Biology
2006-2008: National Institutes of Health
The National Institutes of Health awarded CAE a grant to develop a Bioethics Curriculum Supplement for High School Biology. The overall purpose of this Supplement and teacher guide is to introduce students to bioethics as a field of inquiry, to introduce key ethics concepts (such as the principles of justice and truthtelling) and to enable students to develop ethical reasoning skills, so they are capable of moving beyond “gut reactions” to more nuanced arguments. These ethics concepts and skills will be the ones to which they will return in each of the six lessons developed, applying and practicing the concepts and skills across the curriculum.
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