In September 2023, CREEi was awarded a new supplement by the NIH-Fogarty International Center. The new CREEi-Hastings Center Climate Bioethics Program (CBP) will entice graduates of the parent CREEi program to spend a year learning about climate change and health (CCH) and exploring normative ethics questions often overlooked in related research, policy, and practice. Through the CBP, scholars from the English and Spanish speaking countries bordering the Caribbean Sea will help to integrate bioethics into CCH dialog and research and illuminate for climate scientists and health professionals some of the values that bear on CCH research and climate change mitigation strategies.
Those who complete the CBP program will be better positioned to integrate bioethics and CCH into their teaching, become more equal partners in international research, become collaborators and co-authors in trans-disciplinary CCH research and public health interventions, and ultimately improve health equity in the Caribbean – a region of unique vulnerability to climate change due to its diverse geography (SIDS and low lying countries with relatively large coastlines) and socioeconomics (LMICs). Structured interaction between climate scientists, bioethicists whose work focuses on CCH, regional health professionals, and CREEi-trained research ethicists will enrich and expand the CCH research community. This has particular significance for Caribbean LMICs and SIDS which are under-represented in global CCH research.
The aims of the program are to
1. Improve critical thinking and writing skills among a cohort of eight Caribbean
scholars to enhance their scholarship and contributions to collaborative research
2. Cultivate a network of CCH scholars to forge multidisciplinary collaborations among CCH researchers and practitioners.
Outputs will include open access to an online casebook written by trainees, teaching materials, a virtual conference, and a public facing webinar.
The CBP is a partnership between CREEi partner institutions (SGU, WINDREF, Clarkson University, and Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro) and The Hastings Center.
The CBP is supported by NIH-FIC Award number 3R25TW 009731-11S1 (Administrative supplement to the Caribbean Research Ethics Education initiative (CREEi) for the period September 2023 for one year.
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