The Ninth Global Forum on Bioethics in Research

The programme for GFBR9 is currently being developed. It is anticipated that a draft indicating structure and content for this interactive forum will be available by the end of April.

The Forum will cover three days. The first two days will follow the same format with a keynote speaker who will introduce the topic area and then a panel of international experts who will provide comment on the topic area from their particular perspectives. This will be followed by four separate breakout sessions at which a case study, on aspects of the topic area, will be presented. On the third day a case study will be presented, followed by breakout sessions where delegates will be able to consider the themes and issues that they have discussed in the previous two days, using those insights to address the issues raised in the case study. At the end of each day there will be feedback and discussion on the issues raised at the breakout sessions.

The topics that will be included in the Forum have not been finalised, however they are likely to include the involvement of participants in the development of research, individual versus collective consent, decolonising practices, dissemination of knowledge, benefit sharing and access and outcomes and control of research.