Navigating ethical and legal challenges in the HEALthy Brain and Child Development Study: Lessons learned from the ethics, law, policy working group.

ABSTRACT: The HEALthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study, a multi-site prospective longitudinal cohort study, will examine human brain, cognitive, behavioral, social, and emotional development beginning prenatally and planned through early childhood. The HBCD study has faced several ethical and legal challenges due to its goal of enrolling pregnant people (including those with substance use disorder) and their newborns. Challenges not fully anticipated at the outset emerged from the rapidly changing legal landscape around reproductive rights in the United States. By embedding scholars in bioethics and law within research teams and engaging them in conversation with each other and other study personnel, we were able to address many challenges proactively and respond promptly to unanticipated ch

SUBMITTER: Kingsley J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11538620 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature