Familiar ethical issues amplified: how members of research ethics committees describe ethical distinctions between disaster and non-disaster research

BackgroundThe conduct of research in settings affected by disasters such as hurricanes, floods and earthquakes is challenging, particularly when infrastructures and resources were already limited pre-disaster. However, since post-disaster research is essential to the improvement of the humanitarian response, it is important that adequate research ethics oversight be available.MethodsWe aim to answer the following questions: 1) what do research …