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Research ethics boards’ regulations can sometimes produce an unintended consequence: overprotection through policies that restrict the participation of people and communities historically excluded from research, such as racialized communities, Indigenous people and recent immigrants. (Unsplash/Curated Lifestyle)

The ethics of being left out of health research

Sonia S Anand, McMaster University; Gina Ogilvie, University of British Columbia, and Vanessa Watts, McMaster University

An ethics process must not become so preoccupied with the potential harm of participation that it overlooks the certain harm of exclusion.
The Mohawk Institute Residential School in Brantford, Ont., in 1917. The former residential school and nearby Hamilton Mountain Sanitorium are subjects of a research project aiming to bring together two Indigenous communities. (Library and Archives Canada)

How one research project is ‘re‑neighbouring’ two Indigenous communities

Vanessa Watts, McMaster University

Scholars are working to piece together information about Indigenous children who attended a residential school in Brantford and Inuit patients taken to a sanatorium in Hamilton, Ontario.

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