Gender equity in research is an important issue: there are significant differences between men and women in many clinical drug trials, as well as in non-clinical trials with persons or in research projects of further use of health-related personal data and biological material.
The published recommendations address essential steps towards equitable research between the sexes, with ethics commissions playing an important role in the evaluation of the applications.
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The recommendations are published in >German and >French.
Céline Wittwer, SCS
04.01.2021