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21st FERCAP International Online CONFERENCE

December 9-11, 2021
Hosted by the Faculty of Medicine, Public Health and Nursing
Universitas Gadjah Mada

Conference Announcement and Call for Abstracts

Theme: Ethical Lessons Learned During Epidemic Outbreaks

Conference Schedule

Before October 31, 2021
Sunday

Call for abstract
December 8, 2021
Wednesday		 Pre conference
December 9-10, 2021
Thursday – Friday		 Conference Proper
December 11, 2021 Saturday FERCAP Recognition Program

Conference Background

It has been two years since the outbreak of the COVID 19 pandemic that affected all regions of the world. While not a single country was prepared to meet the challenges of the global pandemic, each country has adopted its own contingency measures to protect its population from the ravaging effects of the pandemic. There was a race among medical scientists to develop effective drugs and vaccines to contain contagion and public health measures were adopted to prevent its spread.

The pandemic also wreaked havoc on the global economy with hundreds of thousands of the population losing their jobs and inevitably causing an economic recession. It created a global public emergency that required coordinated global surveillance and monitoring systems as individual countries shared their experiences and best practices with each other.

The FERCAP conference will seek to describe the ethical lessons learned from the best practices derived from the health systems initiatives to address the COVID 19 pandemic, the ethical approaches used to implement scientific and medical innovative interventions, the public health measures that were enforced, and the community engagement experiences that empowered the target populations.

Topic :

  • International/ national policies, regulations, guidelines and practices related to ethical issues during an epidemic outbreak or a public health emergency
  • Ethical controversies related to COVID 19 treatment and prevention
  • Addressing ethical challenges in research during an epidemic
    • Genetic analysis of the virus/ laboratory research
    • Stages of investigational drug development
    • Diagnostic tool development
    • Vaccine development
    • Use of blood, plasma and other biologic to treat Covid-19
    • Traditional/ complementary medicine
    • Ethical issues in the conduct of clinical trials during a pandemic
    • Public health research during a public health emergency
    • Socio-behavioral research during an epidemic outbreak
    • Community engagement
  • Ethical issues in clinical care
  • International collaboration during a pandemic
  • Communication and health promotion during an epidemic outbreak
  • Scientific integrity in publication
  • Ethics in surveillance and data analytics
  • Best practices of research ethics committees during an epidemic
    • Ethical issues in reviewing investigational new product applications for Covid19
    • Reviewing multi-country clinical trials during epidemic outbreaks
    • Data privacy issues during a public health emergency.
    • Data and benefit sharing during Covid-19 pandemic
    • Addressing conflicts of interest
    • Use of online platforms for ethics review
    • Improving quality of ethics review of protocols
    • Reviewing various types of informed consent (individual vs. administrative consent, broad consent, electronic informed consent, etc.)

Call for Abstract Submisssion (before October 31, 2021)

To participate as a presenter, there are several steps that you need to follow:

Register and submit your extended abstract to the https://fercap21.fkkmk.ugm.ac.id/

To maximize our services, make sure that you complete the following details before submitting your abstract:

Abstract format and content in accordance with the author guidelines
The uploaded file should be less than 5 MB.
Please ensure your document is in the PDF format.
The word limit is 300 – 500 words.

AUTHOR GUIDELINES

How to write the extended abstract
The authors can submit either structured or unstructured abstract. The extended abstract should contain comparisons to related work, key theories, and other details. Thus, an extended abstract is more than a long abstract. It should clearly specify theoretical and empirical gaps that the researcher is addressing, a concise review of seminal work, a brief description of the methodology used, results obtained, the expected contributions(s) to theory and practice, and the conclusion resulting from the study.

Your extended abstract should contain:

Title
Author(s)
Affiliation(s)
As a summary, please ensure the following:

Font for the abstract times new roman
title (14 font size, bold, and centred), for author (12 font size, centred), Authors’ affiliation (10 font size, italics, centred), Body text (12 font size, left- justified, single-spaced).

The abstract should not contain any tables and pictures.

The corresponding author must put asteric (*) after the affiliation’s number.

Margins. Use 1-inch margins for the top, bottom, left, and right margins. The text should be left-justified. All pages should include a page number on the bottom right corner of the page. The number should be in 12-pt Times New Roman.

Line Spacing. Line spacing should be single (0 before and 0 after), except for already predefined styles; leave 1 line space between body text and next heading and between paragraphs.