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agueda munoz

About: My name is Agueda Munoz del Carpio Toia. I am a Peruvian physician, investigator in Public Health and Bioethics for over 10 years. Nowadays, I perform scientific research related to bioethics, public and occupational health. I am a former fellow at Fogarty FLACSO Argentina (Fogarty training program in research ethics in the Americas). I was also a fellow of NIH WIRB- WHO at Washington University (training for the protection of study subjects). Currently, I am a board member of WIRB Copernicus. I am Chair of the Research Ethics Committee of the Catholic University of Santa Maria at Arequipa, Peru. I also work as a professor of bioethics, research and public health in the faculty of human medicine. I teach courses focused on incorporating ethics in research involving human subjects and I am interested in investigating the social value of research. I have published diverse articles on research ethics in indigenous communities, bioethics and public health, ethics committees, regulation of clinical trials, bioethics and gender, family violence, informed consent, etc. I have participated in several international conferences on bioethics