Public Policy and Biomedical Research

The Public Stake in Biomedical Research: A Policy Perspective

Federal policy for biomedical and behavioral research.

Research fraud and public policy.

W e've been concerned recently about misconduct in scientific research. There's a lot to worry about: Some careers have been destroyed because the temptation to falsify data proved too great; others have been put on hold while irresponsible charges were allowed to dangle for years before being discredited. In the real instances of research misconduct we know about in biology and physics, the mo...

Intertwining Biomedical Research and Public Health in HIV Microbicide Research

Finding an effective microbicide that could substantially lower women’s risk of acquiring HIV infection is an ethical imperative. Women and girls continue to be disproportionally affected by HIV in sub-Saharan Africa. Ethics guidelines for conducting preventive HIV microbicide trials call for steps that intertwine biomedical research and public health. Ethical considerations include adequate st...

Translating research into public policy.

Influencing and informing public policy are explicit goals of active living research. Active living researchers, motivated by a desire to improve health, often wonder why their findings do not translate more readily into changes in the ''real world'' of local, state, and federal policies. The California Center for Public Health Advocacy (CCPHA) is a nonpartisan nonprofit research and advocacy o...