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Program in Global Participatory Research and Ethics

Welcome to the Global Participatory Research and Ethics program, developed to empower communities in low-resource settings to develop their own ethics training for community researchers. Our mission is to foster inclusive, ethical, and culturally relevant research practices, with a special focus on participatory methodologies. We aim to amplify community voices and promote sustainable development of ethics training that extends beyond standard institutional training.

Message from the Director:

Thank you for visiting our program’s website. We are a new MacMillan Center program recently founded in July 2025. Our program is currently working with community leaders and stakeholders in several low-resource sites across the world, with plans to develop tools for communities and in particular, community researchers. Resources for community research ethics training have been developed and a process standardized in high-resource settings; however, this is nonexistent for the most vulnerable to research misconduct globally. Please see our recently published article highlighting this need and this new program intent. Thank you again for visiting today, and please return to see updates and program resources.