Bronx Community College Invites the BxCRRB to Speak on Henrietta Lacks
In conjunction with Bronx Community College’s One Book, One College, One Community Initiative, Dr. Monique Guishard and the BxCRRB led a 2-hour panel and discussion on the story of Henrietta Lacks on October 19. Over 70 students, faculty, and staff members of BCC were in attendance as the BxCRRB unpacked the history of research abuses.
The event opened with students sharing significant events in their life on post-its and creating a timeline in relation to the events in Henrietta Lacks’s life.
The activity was follow by members of the BxCRRB sharing their own personal narrative navigating accessibility to health care in the Bronx and ways to research can be more “patient-centered in the Bronx.”
Bronx Community College will be screening the film the HBO Original Movie The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks on November 22, 2017 and November 30, 2017.
If you would like the BxCRRB to speak at your institution or organization, contact us at [email protected] or call 1-718590-2965.
BxCRRB Hosts Three Ethics Retreats at Metropolitan College of New York
October 31, 2017
The Bronx Community Research Review Board has been moving full steam ahead as they close out the last meeting of their three-part ethics retreat. Led by Dr. Monique Guishard & Nicky Smith, the chair and coordinator respectively, the BxCRRB engaged in four-hour long sessions on ethics, informed consent, the history of research abuses, and on the benefits of community-engaged research.
The last retreat, held on October 28th, closed with a mock-review session of a research study on food insecurity in the Bronx with Dr. Tanzina Ahmed and Dr. Rositsa Ilieva.
“As novice health researchers, we were grappling with the ethical dilemma of how to treat the student participants within our study with dignity while also helping them find
access to resources within the college campus and surrounding community. Thanks to your helpful suggestions, we will compile a one-page list of resources we will hand out to all of our participants.” — Dr. Ahmed
If you are a researcher that would like to have your study/research proposal reviewed by the BxCRRB before it is submitted to an IRB, send us your application here.
The BxCRRB would like to thank Metropolitan College of New York’s Bronx Extension Campus for providing space and they would also like to thank Dr. Emily Andersen for her CIRTification curriculum.
BxCRRB Delivers Presentation on Ethics at Fordham University’s HIV & Drug Research and Ethics Training Institute
“Now in its seventh year, the Fordham HIV and Drug Abuse Prevention Research Ethics Training Institute (RETI) is a training grant sponsored by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (#1R25DA031608-01, Principal Investigator, Celia B. Fisher, Director Center for Ethics Education). The RETI provides early career investigators in the social, behavioral, medical and public health fields with an opportunity to gain research ethics training.”
On July 14th, the BxCRRB was graciously invited by Dr. Fisher and her team to lead a presentation on the nuances of ethics and Community-Engaged Research in the Bronx.
Members of the BxCRRB (Dr. Monique Guishard, Nicky Smith, Saba Solomon, Bernice Williams, and Barbara Hart) with the cohort of RETI.
The RETI cohort was a group of multi-disciplined scholars and researchers who were interested in building their knowledge and capacity to perform ethical research in their work.
Within the RETI program, these scholars aim to:
- Expand fellows’ knowledge of and capacity to address key ethical issues in HIV prevention research with drug using and other at-risk communities
- Provide fellows with the skills to ethically engage participants and communities in the construction of participant protections that reflect the values and merit the trust of all stakeholders in HIV and drug abuse prevention research
- Increase fellows’ capacity to conduct research that will generate data to inform HIV and drug abuse prevention research practices and policies
- Create and sustain an information and communication network for fellows, faculty and others in the field for enhancing ethical knowledge, ethical dialogue and future professional collaborations in HIV and drug abuse prevention research ethics
To find out more about RETI follow this link.
Community Engaged Research Academy Holds Its First Graduation Ceremony
On July 6, 2017, the Bronx-based Community Engaged Research Academy (CERA) held its first graduation in the Metropolitan College of New York’s Bronx Extension Center. The graduation honored 20 “Community Experts” that participated in 13 classes dedicated to learning research methods within and outside of traditional research.
Honorable Jamaal Bailey of Bronx’s District 12, MCNY’s President Vinton Thompson, and Bronx Community College President Thomas Iskenegbe were in attendance at the ceremony.
The students of the CERA will go on to launch a online survey this summer with the guidance of the Project Lead, Dr. Monique Guishard.
To learn more about when CERA will open applications again visit this link.
Welcome to Our New Site!
Welcome to the new Bronx Community Research Review Board site! We hope to use this space to share information and announcements and to serve as a community resource.
If you have any questions contact us here!