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  1. Research Ethics Committees’ Oversight of Biomedical Research in South Africa: A Thematic Analysis of Ethical Issues Raised During Ethics Review of Non-Expedited Protocols

    Article • Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, January 2019, SAGE Publications

    Professor Douglas R Wassenaar

  2. Towards new ethics guidelines: the ethics of online therapy in South Africa

    Article • South African Journal of Psychology, November 2018, SAGE Publications

    Professor Douglas R Wassenaar

  3. Measuring the Quality and Performance of Institutional Review Boards

    Article • Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, October 2018, SAGE Publications

    Min-Fu Tsan, Professor Douglas R Wassenaar

  4. A thematic content analysis of suicide notes from South Africa

    Article • South African Journal of Psychology, May 2018, SAGE Publications

    Professor Douglas R Wassenaar

  5. The ‘over-researched community’: An ethics analysis of stakeholder views at two South African HIV prevention research sites

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, December 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Douglas R Wassenaar

  6. Racial differences in willingness to participate in HIV prevention clinical trials among university students in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

    Article • South African Journal of Psychology, May 2017, SAGE Publications

    Professor Douglas R Wassenaar

  7. Mapping research ethics committees in Africa: Evidence of the growth of ethics review of health research in Africa

    Article • Developing World Bioethics, May 2017, Wiley

    Professor Douglas R Wassenaar

  8. Undue inducement: a case study in CAPRISA 008

    Article • Journal of Medical Ethics, March 2017, BMJ

    Professor Douglas R Wassenaar

  9. Defining and Negotiating the Social Value of Research in Public Health Facilities: Perceptions of Stakeholders in a Research-Active Province of South Africa

    Article • Bioethics, January 2017, Wiley

    Professor Douglas R Wassenaar

  10. “. . . I’ve Gone Through This My Own Self, So I Practice What I Preach . . . ”

    Article • Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, October 2016, SAGE Publications

    Professor Douglas R Wassenaar, Dr Peter A Newman

  11. How to learn to love your research ethics committee

    Article • South African Journal of Psychology, August 2016, SAGE Publications

    Professor Douglas R Wassenaar

  12. Contextualising the role of the gatekeeper in social science research

    Article • South African Journal of Bioethics and Law, May 2016, Health and Medical Publishing Group

    Professor Douglas R Wassenaar

  13. Voluntariness of consent to HIV clinical research: A conceptual and empirical pilot study

    Article • Journal of Health Psychology, February 2016, SAGE Publications

    Professor Douglas R Wassenaar

  14. What Makes Health Systems Research in Developing Countries Ethical? Application of the Emanuel Framework for Clinical Research to Health Systems Research

    Article • Developing World Bioethics, February 2016, Wiley

    Professor Douglas R Wassenaar

  15. 042: BUILDING CAPACITY IN RESEARCH ETHICS: CHANGING THE WAY WE TEACH AND LEARN RESEARCH ETHICS IN SOUTH AFRICA

    Article • August 2015, BMJ

    Professor Douglas R Wassenaar

  16. Developing Ethical Practices for Public Health Research Data Sharing in South Africa

    Article • Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, July 2015, SAGE Publications

    Professor Douglas R Wassenaar

  17. Best Practices for Ethical Sharing of Individual-Level Health Research Data From Low- and Middle-Income Settings

    Article • Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, July 2015, SAGE Publications

    Professor Douglas R Wassenaar

  18. Biomedical Research Ethics Committees in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Article • Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, March 2015, SAGE Publications

    Professor Douglas R Wassenaar

  19. Measuring Voluntariness of Consent to Research

    Article • Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, February 2015, SAGE Publications

    Professor Douglas R Wassenaar

  20. Using the Emanuel et al. Framework to Assess Ethical Issues Raised by a Biomedical Research Ethics Committee in South Africa

    Article • Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, October 2014, SAGE Publications

    Professor Douglas R Wassenaar

  21. A Strategy for Developing Future Academic Leaders for South Africa in a Resource-Constrained Environment

    Article • Academic Medicine, August 2014, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Professor Douglas R Wassenaar

  22. Trial Participants’ Understanding of Randomization, Double-Blinding, and Placebo Use in Low Literacy Populations

    Article • Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, July 2014, SAGE Publications

    Professor Douglas R Wassenaar

  23. The Global Forum for Bioethics in Research: Past, present and future

    Article • South African Journal of Bioethics and Law, April 2014, Health and Medical Publishing Group

    Professor Douglas R Wassenaar

  24. Research Ethics Capacity Building in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review of NIH Fogarty-Funded Programs 2000–2012

    Article • Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, April 2014, SAGE Publications

    Professor Douglas R Wassenaar

  25. Development of an Online Research Ethics Training Resource Specific to South African Health Law and Guidance - A Ukzn-Mepi Funded Project

    Article • January 2014, Scitepress

    Professor Douglas R Wassenaar

  26. Promoting Research Integrity in Africa: An African Voice of Concern on Research Misconduct and the Way Forward

    Article • Developing World Bioethics, April 2013, Wiley

    Mr Nyanyukweni Pandeni Tshifugula, Eucharia Anunobi, Professor Douglas R Wassenaar

  27. Compensation for Research-Related Injury in NIH-Sponsored HIV/AIDS Clinical Trials in Africa

    Article • Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, February 2013, SAGE Publications

    Professor Douglas R Wassenaar

  28. Improving understanding of clinical trial procedures among low literacy populations: an intervention within a microbicide trial in Malawi

    Article • BMC Medical Ethics, November 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Douglas R Wassenaar

  29. Ethical Issues and Ethics Reviews in Social Science Research

    Article • July 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Douglas R Wassenaar

  30. MAPPING AFRICAN ETHICAL REVIEW COMMITTEE ACTIVITY ONTO CAPACITY NEEDS: THE MARC INITIATIVE AND HRWEB'S INTERACTIVE DATABASE OF RECS IN AFRICA

    Article • Developing World Bioethics, April 2012, Wiley

    Professor Douglas R Wassenaar

  31. The Use of Students as Participants in a Study of Eating Disorders in a Developing Country

    Article • The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, March 2012, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Professor Douglas R Wassenaar

  32. Protection of human participants in health research - a comparison of some US Federal Regulations and South African Research Ethics guidelines

    Article • South African Medical Journal, November 2010, Health and Medical Publishing Group

    Professor Douglas R Wassenaar

  33. Payments and Direct Benefits in HIV/AIDS Related Research Projects in Uganda

    Article • Ethics & Behavior, March 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Douglas R Wassenaar

  34. Convergent ethical issues in HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria vaccine trials in Africa: Report from the WHO/UNAIDS African AIDS Vaccine Programme's Ethics, Law and Human Rights Collaborating Centre consultation, 10-11 February 2009, Durban, South Africa

    Article • BMC Medical Ethics, March 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Douglas R Wassenaar

  35. Ethics Review in a Developing Country: A Survey of South African Social Scientists' Experiences

    Article • Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, December 2009, SAGE Publications

    Professor Douglas R Wassenaar

  36. A developing country response to Lavery et al. "In global health research, is it legitimate to stop clinical trials early on account of their opportunity costs?"

    Article • BMC Medical Ethics, September 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Douglas R Wassenaar

  37. ETHICAL ISSUES IN MEDICAL RESEARCH IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD: A REPORT ON A MEETING ORGANISED BY FONDATION MÉRIEUX

    Article • Developing World Bioethics, August 2009, Wiley

    Professor Douglas R Wassenaar

  38. Homicide-Suicide in Durban, South Africa

    Article • Journal of Interpersonal Violence, July 2009, SAGE Publications

    Professor Douglas R Wassenaar

  39. The Effect of Relationships on Decision-Making Processes of Women in Harare, Zimbabwe

    Article • Ethics & Behavior, May 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Douglas R Wassenaar

  40. African AIDS Vaccine Programme for a Coordinated and Collaborative Vaccine Development Effort on the Continent

    Article • PLoS Medicine, December 2008, PLOS

    Professor Douglas R Wassenaar

  41. The Ethical Involvement of Women in HIV Vaccine Trials in Africa: Discussion Paper Developed for the African AIDS Vaccine Programme

    Article • Women & Health, June 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Douglas R Wassenaar

  42. Research injury in clinical trials in South Africa

    Article • The Lancet, February 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Douglas R Wassenaar

  43. Commentary: Ethical considerations in international research collaboration: The Bucharest early intervention project

    Article • Infant Mental Health Journal Infancy and Early Childhood, January 2006, Wiley

    Professor Douglas R Wassenaar

  44. ‘Even if they ask you to stand by a tree all day, you will have to do it (laughter)…!’: Community voices on the notion and practice of informed consent for biomedical research in developing countries

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, July 2005, Elsevier

    Professor Douglas R Wassenaar

  45. Racial differences in public perceptions of voluntariness of medical research participants in South Africa

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, March 2005, Elsevier

    Professor Douglas R Wassenaar

  46. Provision of HIV treatment in HIV preventive vaccine trials: a developing country perspective

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, March 2005, Elsevier

    Professor Douglas R Wassenaar

  47. Attendance at Psychological Consultations following Non-Fatal Suicidal Behaviour: An Ethical Dilemma

    Article • South African Journal of Psychology, September 2004, SAGE Publications

    Professor Douglas R Wassenaar

  48. Acculturation and eating disorder symptomatology in Black men and women

    Article • Eating and Weight Disorders - Studies on Anorexia Bulimia and Obesity, March 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Douglas R Wassenaar

  49. The prevalence of eating disorder pathology in a cross-ethnic population of female students in South Africa

    Article • European Eating Disorders Review, May 2000, Wiley

    Professor Douglas R Wassenaar

  50. Ethical Dilemmas of South African Clinical Psychologists

    Article • European Psychologist, September 1999, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Professor Douglas R Wassenaar

  51. A History of Ethical Codes in South African Psychology: An Insider's View

    Article • South African Journal of Psychology, September 1998, SAGE Publications

    Professor Douglas R Wassenaar

  52. Recent stressors and family satisfaction in suicidal adolescents in South Africa

    Article • Journal of Adolescence, April 1997, Elsevier

    Professor Douglas R Wassenaar

  53. Family Dynamics, Hopelessness and Psychiatric Disturbance in Parasuicidal Adolescents

    Article • Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, April 1997, SAGE Publications

    Professor Douglas R Wassenaar

  54. The Perceptual and Affective Components of Body Image Disturbances in Anorexic and Normal Females

    Article • South African Journal of Psychology, December 1996, SAGE Publications

    Professor Douglas R Wassenaar

  55. Hopelessness and Psychiatric Symptomatology in Hospitalized Physically Ill Adolescents

    Article • South African Journal of Psychology, March 1996, SAGE Publications

    Professor Douglas R Wassenaar

  56. An Investigation into the Relationship between Coronary Risk Factors and Coronary Heart Disease among the Pietermaritzburg Asian Population

    Article • South African Journal of Psychology, March 1996, SAGE Publications

    Professor Douglas R Wassenaar

  57. Rescue Expectations and Hopelessness in Adolescent Parasuicides

    Article • Perceptual and Motor Skills, April 1991, SAGE Publications

    Professor Douglas R Wassenaar

  58. RESCUE EXPECTATIONS AND HOPELESSNESS IN ADOLESCENT PARASUICIDES

    Article • Perceptual and Motor Skills, January 1991, SAGE Publications

    Professor Douglas R Wassenaar

  59. Family Characteristics of Indian Parasuicide Patients: A Controlled Study

    Article • South African Journal of Psychology, September 1989, SAGE Publications

    Professor Douglas R Wassenaar

  60. Brief Strategic Family Therapy and the Management of Adolescent Indian Parasuicide Patients in the General Hospital Setting

    Article • South African Journal of Psychology, September 1987, SAGE Publications

    Professor Douglas R Wassenaar

  61. Researching Family Therapy

    Article • South African Journal of Psychology, March 1987, SAGE Publications

    Professor Douglas R Wassenaar