The Office for Protection from Research Risks, National Institutes of Health, is sponsoring a workshop on ethical issues involved in behavioral and biomedical research. The two-day program will convene the morning of August 16 with a presentation on the Historic Overview of Ethics in Research. The workshop is open to anyone with an interest in research, as well as NIH personnel involved in the development of research protocols, the review of research proposals and applications, the awarding of NIH research funds, the performance of research, and the evaluation of research.
Advanced registration is required.
The Secretary's Task Force on Black and Minority Health issued its report in October 1985. In its review of existing data, the Task Force noted the under representation of minorities in research studies. This has resulted in significant gaps in knowledge about minority subpopulations. However, investigators should be aware that merely including an arbitrary number of minority group participants in a given study is insufficient to guarantee generalization of the results. In attempting to include minority groups in a particular study, attention must be paid to research design and sample size issues.