Research Projects

Assessing attitudes and practices of academics involved in public health research or practice with respect to accepting funds from for profit organizations
CGSRHR
Year: 2016
IRB Number: 2016-85
Organaisation: BRAC JPGSPH
Public Health Research Profit Organization

PI: Professor Sabina Faiz Rashid, PhD

Objective:The overall aim of this proposal is to inform a policy debate about possible guidelines that schools of public health as well as public health academics could use in making decisions about accepting funds from for-profit corporations.

The specific research objectives include:
• Assess the attitudes and practices of public health academics globally with respect to taking funds from for-profit corporations – with particular emphasis on corporations whose products are associated with NCDs.
• Assess the policies that govern schools of public health around the globe vis-à-vis taking funds from for-profit corporations.

Donor: International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Canada and contracted out by American University of Beirut

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