A Médecins Sans Frontières Ethics Framework for Humanitarian Innovation

PLoS Med. 2016 Sep 6;13(9):e1002111. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002111. eCollection 2016 Sep.

Authors

Julian Sheather¹, Kiran Jobanputra², Doris Schopper^{3

4}, John Pringle⁵, Sarah Venis², Sidney Wong⁶, Robin Vincent-Smith⁷

Affiliations

¹ Ethics Department, British Medical Association, London, United Kingdom.
² Manson Unit, Médecins Sans Frontières, London, United Kingdom.
³ Medical Faculty, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
⁴ Centre for Education and Research in Humanitarian Action (CERAH), Geneva, Switzerland.
⁵ McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
⁶ Médecins Sans Frontières, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
⁷ Médecins Sans Frontières, Brussels, Belgium.

Abstract

Kiran Jobanputra and colleagues describe an ethics framework to support the ethics oversight of innovation projects in medical humanitarian contexts.

MeSH terms

Altruism*
Developing Countries
International Agencies / ethics*
Organizational Innovation
Public Health / ethics*