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Welcome!

My name is Charles Weijer (pronounced VEY-er). I am a bioethicist and professor at Western University in London, Canada who specializes in research ethics.

 

Together with an interdisciplinary team of colleagues and trainees, I explore ethical issues in randomized controlled trials, human challenge studies, and organ donation.

In the news

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November 28, 2023

These volunteers want to be infected with disease to aid research — will their altruism help?

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November 15, 2023

Concerns over informed consent for pregnant women in Pfizer’s RSV vaccine trial

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October 20, 2022

New transplant procedure challenges ethics rules

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March 23, 2021

COVID-19 trial infecting healthy volunteers needs full transparency, say campaigners

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February 18, 2021

The UK is infecting people with COVID-19 for science. Is it worth it?

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December 27, 2020

Ethics dumping: colonial thinking in science.

Upcoming and recent talks

Ethics of cluster randomized trials in
health and social care

HRB-TMRN Workshop on Deliberating Ethics in Trials

May 2, 2024

Cluster randomized trials are an increasingly popular design, but they raise difficult ethical issues. In this talk, I discuss reasons to choose a cluster design, identifying research participants, informed consent, and the role of gatekeepers.

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