Human Subjects & Regulatory Core (Ethics)
- Associate Professor, History and Philosophy of Medicine, KU School of Medicine
- Director, Ethics Core
Jomella Watson-Thompson, Ph.D.
- Co-Investigator, Ethics Core
- Associate Professor, Applied Behavioral Science, University of Kansas
- Director of the Center for Service Learning
- Principal Investigator and Director of the Youth Violence Prevention Center, Kansas City
The Ethics Core will increase institutional and regional capacity to conduct high quality implementation research and will streamline regulatory compliance and approval for such projects. We aim to establish the Implementation Research Ethics Consultation Service, which will provide one-on-one guidance on conditions that create inequities, factors that sustain inequities, potential solutions and ways to avoid mistakes of the past. Taken together, the Ethics Core services will help investigators conduct timely, relevant research on mutable drivers of inequities that will increase the proposed COBRE’s potential for sustained impact on the field of implementation science.
Contact us
Contact Dr. Jason Glenn at jglenn4@kumc.edu.
Establish the Implementation Research Ethics Consultation Service (I-RECS). To meet the unique ethical challenges of conducting equity-minded implementation science, the I-RECS will assist project leads, pilot studies and other investigators with understanding and meeting the ethical and regulatory requirements related to their specific implementation projects.
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- Establish the consultation service. I-RECS will participate in all on-boarding meetings with project leads and schedule pre-protocol design and follow-up consultations as needed to:
- identify ethical and design-related challenges in their protocols
- facilitate consultations with the Community Engagement and Outreach Core to identify key stakeholders to consult on research design and implementation; and c) develop an Implementation Science and Equity in Human Subjects Plan to address the use of vulnerable populations and innovative research design. I-RECS consultations also will identify the regulatory and ethics training needs of project leads, and work with the Ethics Navigator to link investigators with trainings as appropriate.
- Establish the navigation service. The Ethics Navigator, with expertise in regulatory practices and requirements, will assist Project Leads with developing protocols and consents, interacting with the IRB, submitting protocols, revising protocols and remaining up to date on all human subjects-related trainings and deadlines.
- Establish the consultation service. I-RECS will participate in all on-boarding meetings with project leads and schedule pre-protocol design and follow-up consultations as needed to:
Curate and provide trainings to support ethical research in Implementation Science and Equity. The Ethics Core will identify relevant internal and external trainings and link researchers with trainings as appropriate. RPLs(is this research project leaders?) and pilot application awardees will be required to attend an enhanced Responsible Conduct of Research and Good Clinical Practice training by Core Lead Glenn that addresses structural competency and health inequity and to attend implicit bias training. Drs. Glenn and Watson-Thompson will provide additional, individually tailored training/mentoring in the ethics of community engagement and methods for equity informed and community-engaged research.
Collaborate with the Administrative Core to evaluate Ethics Core effectiveness. The Ethics Core will collect ongoing data required by the Administrative Core to evaluate Core services. In addition, the Ethics Core will conduct a detailed internal evaluation to address strengths, weaknesses, and areas for improvement for core services.