Using a game for undergraduate global health students in the United States to practice applying ethical research principles

Sarah B. Rodriguez

doi:10.3167/latiss.2020.130106

Using a game for undergraduate global health students in the United States to practice applying ethical research principles

Sarah B. Rodriguez^*

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Global Health Studies Program

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Abstract

Global health programmes have become quite popular within universities in the United States. But despite the growth in undergraduate programming in global health, the training of American undergraduates to ensure they engage ethically when conducting research in a low-or middle-income country has not followed. I teach a course in global bioethics and developed the board game described in this article as a means of engaging students in active, peer-to-peer learning about ethical challenges, questions and concerns during the research planning process, while students are working abroad in unfamiliar contexts or upon return to their home university once their data collection is completed. The game is intended for students to apply what they learned regarding global bioethical practice.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	87-102
Number of pages	16
Journal	Learning and Teaching
Volume	13
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3167/latiss.2020.130106
State	Published - Mar 1 2020

Funding

I want to thank Alecia Wartowski and the Change Makers programme at Northwestern University where I played 'The American Dream' game that inspired me to create this game. In addition, I want to thank Noelle Sullivan for providing substantive suggestions on an earlier draft of this article and for the useful comments I received following presentations of a version of this article at a Midwestern Consortium of Universities for Global Health Conference and at a Medical Humanities and Bioethics Montgomery Lecture at Northwestern University. I would also like to thank Juliet Sorenson for inviting me to have her students play the game during a session of her Health and Human Rights law course at Northwestern, and similarly thank Stacey Chamberlain for inviting me to do the same during a meeting of her Global Medicine Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine. Finally, thank you to the reviewers for their helpful comments.

Keywords

Educational games
Global bioethics
Global health
Research ethics
Undergraduate teaching

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Education
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Sociology and Political Science

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