Grant: Knowledge Translation Supplement - Priority Announcement: Ethics

With funding from the CIHR Ethics office, the Principal Applicant (Dr. Amy Salmon) and Co-Applicant (Dr. Kirsten Bell) led a team of investigators to examine and identify strategies for supporting the participation of women with substance use problems in health research. Using data collected in focus groups with women in a diverse range of settings and stages of recovery from addiction, and in partnership with community-based health organizations serving substance-using women, we are requesting additional support to create a "tool kit" of containing information about ethical research practice for health researchers, health and social service providers in community-based organizations, research ethics boards, and substance-using women. The intent of this toolkit is to build capacity and to foster dialogue between substance-using women, health researchers, ethicists, health and social service providers, community-based organizations, and REBs while providing practical assistance on how to address ethical challenges that regularly confront researchers who wish to work with substance-using women, and substance-using women (and the professionals that workwith them) who are asked to take part in research.