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Global Forum on Bioethics in Research, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Ameyo Bonventure Masakhwe - GFMER Coordinator for Kenya
2024-12-11
I recently participated in an activity in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia with WHO's Global Forum on Bioethics in Research on the topic: "Ethical issues arising in research into health and climate change".
Indeed, ethics is the backbone of good research involving human and animal subjects, and the environment, from a one-health-centred perspective. Climate change has the greatest effect on the most vulnerable populations such as rising evidence that extreme heat negatively impacts maternal and neonatal outcomes including poor breastfeeding, and stillbirths. The Global Forum on Bioethics in Research (GFBR) brings together researchers, research policy makers and ethicists, among others to share experiences and promote collaboration around research ethics. This year, GFBR focused on the ethics of research into health and climate change, without neglecting research into interventions, with a particular emphasis on LMICs.