About Us

The Global Ethics Learning Hub (GELH) aims to oversee and provide guidance on the ethical conduct of all relevant research activities within Pakistan Institute of Living & Learning (PILL) and uphold guiding principles of ethical integrity and good governance. As described in PILL’s ethics policy, GELH aims to facilitate sound decision making that respects the values, concerns, and interests of the organization and society at large.

PILL is committed to upholding and maintaining the highest quality of academic and ethical standards in all its activities. PILL’s governance and ethics policies and procedures recognise the importance of addressing ethical matters for all research purposes. Research ethics is central to all research activities. PILL has a governance framework within which all employees of PILL must act when engaging in research or knowledge exchange.

Ethical standards, including appropriate training, expertise, and care, are strongly advocated for researchers. We endeavor to develop a robust ethical framework for researchers to avoid the risk of harm and advance best practices in research. Ethical standards confirm that research is conducted safely and meets agreed principles, standards, and codes of research practice for participants and society. At PILL, the research staff is regularly trained in good clinical practice (GCP) by national and international experts to keep up with the guidelines.

We are working on the following work streams and the work stream leads are:

Grants and Publications

Rakhshi Memon, Ameer B Khoso and Muqaddas Asif

Policy Reviews

Ameer B Khoso and Jahanara Miah

Quality Audits

Muqaddas Asif and Dr. Noor ul Zaman

Tool kit

Ayesha Ahmed and Rakhshi Memon

Training

Dr. Salman Shahzad and Dr Noor ul Zaman

Webpage

Muqaddas Asif and Bushra Ali

Research Practice

Principles of Good Research Practice

PILL strives to uphold the highest standards of ethical practices in research. To achieve a high-quality research culture, the following ethical principles are promoted:

Respect for the dignity, rights, safety, and well-being of participants and employees
Personal and scientific integrity
Leadership
Honesty
Accountability
Openness
Objectivity
Integrity and prudence of researcher(s)
Carefulness
Confidentiality
Responsible publication
Responsible mentoring
Non-Discrimination
Clear and supportive management

Courses, Programs and Trainings

All courses, programs, and training related to the Global Ethics Learning Hub will be listed here.

Governance Documents

The governance document folder contains all the important working documents in the domain of ethics group. All these documents updated below

Blogs

Global Mental Health Blog

This blog is a global platform to critique and create dialogue about mental health issues that affect us globally. We endeavour to use this blog to address and recognise the ways that mental health matters to all our lives and ways that we need to collectively work to address our understanding and response in societies and healthcare settings.

Each month, members of our PILL team will be presenting their work on a particular topic. We hope that you will find the matters to be engaging and informative.

Read our Blog Writing Guidelines here.

Updates

Here you will find all the latest updates related to meetings, workshops, trainings, events, discussion groups, and everything else related to GELH.

Publications