This page provides access to recordings of events and webinars conducted by the PAHO´s Regional Program on Bioethics.
Virtual seminar series on topics related to clinical trials
Template for clinical trial contract and insurance policy: regional proposal (June 4, 2025)
How to promote more and better clinical trials in Latin America and the Caribbean? (May 6, 2025)
New guideline for Good Clinical Practice: E6(R3) (March 18, 2025)
Why and how to promote collaboration in health research? (Feb. 27, 2025)
Research contracts and insurance policies for clinical trials: Regional challenges (Dec. 05, 2024)
Research integrity and responsible conduct of research (Nov. 14, 2024)
Clinical trial registration and the International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP) / (Oct. 9, 2024)
Challenges of adaptive trials (Sep. 25, 2024)
The U.S. single IRB policy: challenges and lessons (Aug. 30, 2024)
Data Monitoring Committees (DMCs) and the role of ethics (July 17, 2024)
Animal research and the role of committees for the care and use of animals (June 12, 2024)
Recent webinars & virtual events
Ethics guidance for public health surveillance (Sep. 16, 2024)
Tool for the accreditation of research ethics committees (Jan. 31, 2024)
What are the regulatory tasks in the oversight of clinical trials? (Nov. 21, 2023)
What actions should we take now to improve our ethics preparedness for future emergencies and strengthen research ethics? (Aug. 29, 2023)
Virtual regional bilingual workshop: Material Transfer Agreements and Data Transfer Agreements
First session: Material and data transfer agreements: basic notions (Oct. 10, 2023)
-Second Session: Material and data transfer agreements in practice (Oct.17, 2023)
-Third Session: Roles, responsibilities, and challenges when using material and data transfer agreements (Oct. 24, 2023)
-Fourth Session: Regulations of material and data transfer agreements (Oct. 31, 2023)
Regional dialogues: Catalyzing ethical research in emergencies
Catalyzing ethical research in emergencies. Ethics guidance, lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic and pending agenda (Apr. 26, 2022)
Preliminary recommendations to catalyze ethical research in emergencies (Apr. 8, 2022)
Series: Indicators for Strengthening National Research Ethics Systems
I Virtual Seminar: Indicators for Strengthening National Research Ethics Systems (Oct. 18, 2021)
II Virtual Seminar: Regional assessment using indicators: Achievements and pending challenges (Nov. 8, 2021)
III Virtual Seminar: Regional assessment of the indicator on research in emergencies: Progress during the pandemic (Nov. 15, 2021)
Other webinars & virtual events
Research with people with mental health conditions: The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities vs. CIOMS ethical guidelines (Sep. 5, 2023)
Regional overview and ethical challenges of research with people with mental health conditions in light of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (July 25, 2023 / Spanish audio)
MEURI framework: How to ensure that during the emergency unproven interventions are used ethically outside of research? (Aug. 24, 2022 / Spanish audio)
Regional public health ethics workshop: Lessons to be learned from the COVID-19 pandemic (Original Audio / Dec. 13, 2021)
Ethics and Vector Borne Diseases (Sep. 28, 2021)
Human genome editing: A framework for governance and recommendations (Sep. 17, 2021)
LIVE CONVERSATION on FB PAHO Caribbean & Twitter: Should health research be conducted with children? (July 22, 2021)
Virtual Seminar: "Gene editing, communication and ethics" (only in Spanish) (May 17, 2021)
Virtual Seminar: Ethics oversight of COVID-19 research in response to emerging evidence (March 29, 2021)
Virtual Workshop: “COVID-19 Vaccine Research Ethics” (Oct. 27, 2020 / without translation in English)
Evidence, ethics and the use of unproven interventions for COVID 19 (July 30, 2020)
Operational guidelines and strategies for the ethics review and oversight of COVID-19 related research (April 24, 2020)
Dialogues about research ethics during the pandemic: Challenges and lessons to learn in Latin America and the Caribbean
First dialogue: “Strategies for ethics review and oversight” (Nov. 3, 2020)
Second dialogue: “REC Procedures” (Nov. 10, 2020 / without translation in English)
Third Dialogue: "Ethical Challenges of the research proposals: Social and scientific value, and informed consent” (Nov. 17, 2020)
Fourth dialogue: “The perspective of researchers” (Nov. 24, 2020)
Fifth dialogue: "The risk-benefit assessment of studies" (Dec. 1, 2020)
Sixth dialogue: "What have we learned so far?" (Dec. 9, 2020)
Information sessions
PAHOERC Information Session: What needs ethics review during the pandemic? (Sep. 23, 2020)