The current view of scholarship as accrued research grant dollars and publications (the scholarship of discovery) runs counter to academic institutions' obligations to serve society and improve the health and wellbeing of communities using applied and integrated scholarship.
Benefit sharing should be formulated in such a way that the level of benefits accrued from research participation is correspondingly matched with certain parameters such as the type of research in question, the organization sponsoring the research, the purpose of the research etc.
We believe this metric best represents the potential benefit accrued from research by combining the potential for improved outcome (reducing a high mortality rate) with the value of improved outcome (favoring cures for the young over cures for the elderly).
One could release small, perhaps yearly, versions of the dataset, accruing many individual research products over the course of the experiment's lifespan.
Although we cannot anticipate all of the challenges we might face, the vast experience of the study team in accruing participants for research studies and in recording real-time decision-making processes in clinical consultations has prepared us to resolve issues as they arise.
Although there is uncertainty as to the actual concrete benefits that are likely to accrue from genomics research [ 6- 9], there seem to be three major areas into which clinical outcomes of genomics research could be grouped.
These benefits can only be accrued if health research organizations, such as icddr,b, can devise and implement strategic efforts to promote the utilization of research findings in policymaking and strategic planning processes.
In recognition of the growing global context of research and lack of benefits accruing to LMICs, Benatar and Singer argued that research ethics should address the linkages between international research and justice in global health [ 1].
The accrued evolution education research, however, suggests evolution is poorly understood despite a diverse list of scientific and religious organizations that support the teaching of evolution based on the premise that evolution is the best scientific explanation for the origin of species (Sager 2008).
