• The Nuffield Council on Bioethics welcomes The Metric Tide , the report of the Independent Review of the Role of Metrics in Research Assessment and Management, published today, as a valuable contribution to the development and review of the assessment of academic research. (nuffieldbioethics.org)
  • The Nuffield Council on Bioethics is an independent UK body that examines and reports on ethical issues in biology and medicine. (nuffieldbioethics.org)
  • The Ethox Centre, located within Oxford Population Health at the University of Oxford, is an internationally-recognised multidisciplinary bioethics research centre. (bioethicscenter.net)
  • She serves on the editorial boards of the American Journal of Bioethics and Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics. (ohsu.edu)
  • She was Associate Editor for the American Journal of Bioethics from 2019-2022. (ohsu.edu)
  • Jerry Menikoff, " The Regulation of COVID-19 'Challenge' Studies ," The American Journal of Bioethics , July 27, 2020. (unc.edu)
  • Bryan A. Sisk and James DuBois, " Research Ethics during a Pandemic: A Call for Normative and Empirical Analysis ," The American Journal of Bioethics , July 27, 2020. (unc.edu)
  • The American Journal of Bioethics , July 27, 2020. (unc.edu)
  • Ori Rozenberg and Dov Greenbaum, " Making It Count: Extracting Real World Data from Compassionate Use and Expanded Access Programs ," The American Journal of Bioethics , July 27, 2020. (unc.edu)
  • She was Chair of the Department of Bioethics & Humanities from 2014-2022. (ohsu.edu)
  • Professor Smith was named a 2016-17 Henry Luce III Fellow in Theology, was the recipient of the 2019 Paul Ramsey Award for Excellence in Bioethics, and in 2022 received the Edmund Pellegrino Medalist Award in health care ethics. (ohsu.edu)
  • Kei Mukohara, " Patient Consent for COVID-19 REGISTRY JAPAN and the Favipiravir Observational Study ," Bioethics.net , July 7, 2020. (unc.edu)
  • Kyle Ferguson and Arthur Caplan, " Accepting the Challenge: COVID Vaccine Challenge Trials Can be Ethically Justified ," Bioethics Forum , June 29, 2020. (unc.edu)
  • Ruth Macklin, " Human Challenge Studies for COVID-19 Vaccine: Questions about Benefits and Risks ," Bioethics Forum , June 15, 2020. (unc.edu)
  • Researching Poverty in the Pandemic: Thinking Through Ethical Issues and Challenges ," Social Policy Association Blog , June 8, 2020. (unc.edu)
  • Katharine Wright and Julian Sheather, " The Role of Solidarity in Research in Global Health Emergencies ," Bioethics.net , May 11, 2020. (unc.edu)
  • Michael A. Erdek, " Ethical Responsibility in Publishing Research Results on COVID-19 Treatments ," Bioethics Forum , April 30, 2020. (unc.edu)
  • Robert M. Veatch, " Clinical Trials vs. Right to Try: Ethical Use of Chloroquine for COVID-19 ," Bioethics Forum , April 29, 2020. (unc.edu)
  • Julian C. Hughes and Julian Sheather, " COVID-19: 'Contagion to this World' and the Demand for Ethical Research ," Journal of Medical Ethics Blog , April 19, 2020. (unc.edu)
  • Karen J. Maschke and Michael K. Gusmano, " Ethics and Evidence in the Search for a Vaccine and Treatments for COVID-19 ," Bioethics Forum , April 15, 2020. (unc.edu)
  • Nandini K. Kumar and Vasantha Muthuswamy, " Fostering Ethical Biomedical and Health Research in India During the COVID-19 Pandemic ," Research Ethics , July 16, 2020. (unc.edu)
  • Nicholas G. Evans, " Human Infection Challenge Studies: A Test for the Social Value Criterion of Research Ethics ," mSphere , July 15, 2020. (unc.edu)
  • AJOB empirical bioethics 2020 0 0. (cdc.gov)
  • At NYU Law School, she is a member of the Privacy Research Group for the Information Law Institute and will join the Policing Project as an extern for the 2017-2018 academic year. (nih.gov)
  • 2018)."Asilomar Survey: Researcher Perspectives on Ethical Guidelines for BCI Research. (msu.edu)
  • Clarkson University's Department of Bioethics uses an interdisciplinary approach to address ethical issues that arise in healthcare. (clarkson.edu)
  • We have experience supporting interdisciplinary research on applied topics, and enabling students with a wide variety of backgrounds to transition into bioethics. (nottingham.ac.uk)
  • The Masters of Bioethics is an interdisciplinary degree offered by the University pf Pennsylvania Law School and the Department of Medical Ethics & Health Policy in the Perelman School of Medicine. (upenn.edu)
  • Michelle T. Pham conducts research in the interdisciplinary field of Neuroethics and connected issues in the Philosophy of Science. (msu.edu)
  • The authors draw from their experience with the Study to Examine Physicians' Pandemic Stress (STEPPS), an interdisciplinary research project that investigates physicians' experiences at the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic. (cdc.gov)
  • The survey highlighted some key challenges that face countries in relation to level of bioethics education, high levels of illiteracy among patients, lack of resources, application of research ethics and monitoring ongoing researches, lack of coordination among different bodies, lack of bylaws/regulations and consistency of the regulation and practices between different institutions, and misunderstanding of the role of the research ethics committees. (who.int)
  • National Committees of Medical Ethics/Bioethics have been formed in many Islamic countries which work together with ulema to issue fatwas ensuring that neither the progress of medical science is hindered, nor the Islamic code of bioethics is jeopardized. (wikipedia.org)
  • This proposal aims to build the professional and administrative capacities of the newly established National Bioethics Committees in the developing countries and countries in transition through a Joint EC-UNESCO Conference on Bioethics Capacity-Building. (europa.eu)
  • Overall, the Conference is designed to facilitate and promote an international ethics network that brings together newly created National Bioethics Committees (NBCs) from Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean regions and the experienced Committees from Europe, as well as various other parts of the world for experience-sharing and mutual capacity-building in the framework of South-South and North-South-South triangular cooperation. (europa.eu)
  • Experts invited to the Conference will share knowledge about the best practices in running the national bioethics committees, including the establishment of relevant procedures and policies for bioethics committees, and ensuring effective engagement in policy making, priority setting and policy advice. (europa.eu)
  • The Conference will provide an opportunity to exchange ideas about the needs, the challenges, and the lessons learned by the national bioethics committees in various regions of the world. (europa.eu)
  • The capacity building conference includes a thematic debate on the principle of social responsibility and health, and the role that National Bioethics Committees can play in advising the national government on the moral and legal obligations of guaranteeing the highest attainable standards of health to their populations, as well as in raising the general awareness on health issues. (europa.eu)
  • A quarter of a century ago the emergence of ethics committees giving expert opinion on clinical biomedical research was one of the major events of the change of regime in Hungary. (gov.hu)
  • These ethics committees represent the dual value system, which assess partly in terms of the profession and partly in terms of society, that is in terms of patients' rights, the professional-ethical aspects of the possibility of initiating a biomedical research. (gov.hu)
  • Besides the MRC ethical committees the system of regional committees (SRC=RKEB) of research ethics has also been established. (gov.hu)
  • The world's largest collection on ethical issues in medicine and biomedical research resides at Georgetown. (georgetown.edu)
  • The All of Us Research Program is enrolling a diverse group of at least 1 million persons in the United States in order to accelerate biomedical research and improve health of individuals and populations. (cdc.gov)
  • This essay draws on pandemic findings to explore how empirical bioethics can inform post-pandemic translational bioethics. (cdc.gov)
  • Using STEPPS as an example of empirical bioethics with potential for translation, the authors review their research and discuss the ongoing process for translating their findings, focusing on how bioethics research and practice can contribute to supporting the health-care workforce. (cdc.gov)
  • The International Association of Bioethics is defending its decision to hold its 2024 congress in Qatar, a country which is. (bioedge.org)
  • Results of search for 'su:{Bioethics. (who.int)
  • A destination library for bioethics scholars worldwide and an exceptional resource for the entire Georgetown community, the Library is home to the world's largest and most diverse collection of materials on the ethics of health, the environment, and emerging technologies. (georgetown.edu)
  • The WHO Regional Office carried out a situation analysis of bioethics in the Region, with special emphasis on health research to provide opportunities for further understanding of challenges and needs for observing bioethics and to identify areas of progress and improvement in bioethics for each country. (who.int)
  • The results emphasized the need to determine some key actions for further improvement of bioethics in the Region, including enhancing the role of civil society as a key stakeholder, establishing laws according to local needs and context, and developing/fostering a core bioethics curriculum within the health sciences' curricula of academic institutions and in-service training of healthcare providers in the Region. (who.int)
  • As internationally renowned scholars, our faculty members advance the field's collective knowledge of clinical ethics consultation, environmental bioethics, end-of-life and palliative care, public and institutional policy analysis, organ transplantation, reproductive health, conflicts of interest, public health and bioethics pedagogy. (clarkson.edu)
  • Advance your career with training in clinical ethics, health policy and law or research ethics. (clarkson.edu)
  • Enhance your undergraduate education by exploring complex ethical problems in public health and policy, research administration, healthcare, scientific research or engineering. (clarkson.edu)
  • The Program for Maternal Health Equity conducts ethical, antiracist, and community-engaged research to advance and nurture the health, wellbeing and agency of Black, Latinx, and Indigenous birthing families in Philadelphia and beyond. (temple.edu)
  • The Miriam-Zion-Temple Collaborative is a unique community-based health care initiative created as the outreach team of Miriam Medical Clinics, Inc. The team serves in partnership with Zion Baptist Church, a trusted community partner and Temple University's Center for Urban Bioethics at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine. (temple.edu)
  • This degree gives students broad exposure to the diverse topics and issues in contemporary Bioethics, excellently complementing the Law degree for those interested in careers in health law and in health and medical ethics policy. (upenn.edu)
  • If you are giving a presentation about an environmental health topic or just looking for general information about environmental health research or the institute, this page will help. (nih.gov)
  • NIEHS is committed to conducting the most rigorous research in environmental health sciences, and to communicating the results of this research to the public. (nih.gov)
  • NIEHS research uses state-of-the-art science and technology to investigate the interplay between environmental exposures, human biology, genetics, and common diseases to help prevent disease and improve human health. (nih.gov)
  • NIEHS offers a broad range of job opportunities, career enhancement programs, and research training grants and programs in environmental health sciences and administration. (nih.gov)
  • Her interests include aspects of environmental and public health related to research ethics, social and cultural implications of science, science communication, and the intersection of science and policy. (nih.gov)
  • Dr. Dudzinski developed an ethics curriculum for residency programs and teaches bioethics to health care providers, medical and nursing students, graduate, and law students at the University of Washington and affiliated hospitals. (ohsu.edu)
  • Along with his work at the Divinity School, Smith is the director of the bioethics program for the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities, and History of Medicine and associate professor in population health sciences, Department of Health Sciences, Duke University Medical School. (ohsu.edu)
  • Center for Bioethics and Research is pushing the frontier of ethical conduct of research in the African community.We are glad to announce that our prescriptive research, on the required next steps for data science health research ethics in Africa, has been published in Nature. (bioethicscenter.net)
  • Added Ruth A. Karron , director of the Center for Immunization Research and the Vaccine Initiative at the Bloomberg School of Public Health: "We simply can't continue to fail pregnant women as we develop new vaccines against emerging threats. (jhu.edu)
  • Only 61 abstracts (0.19% of the total) related to ethics or bioethics, and they were divided into seven categories: 15 in Deontology, 12 in Training, 12 in Research and Publication, 9 in Bioethics, 7 in Bioethics Teaching, 4 in Collective Health and 2 in Deontology Teaching. (bvsalud.org)
  • It was possible to conclude that the scientific production of Brazilian dentistry still attributes little value to ethics and bioethics despite their relevance in health problems and power for the formation of ethically competent and socially committed professionals. (bvsalud.org)
  • In this seminar we will: 1) Review the All of Us Research Program study design and current status, 2) Discuss its potential for providing important population data to inform implementation of disease prevention and to reduce health disparities and 3) Provide a hands-on training session for scientists interested in accessing and analyzing All of Us Data. (cdc.gov)
  • Despite high levels of need, mental health is a relatively neglected area in Health EDRM, with little focus on services funding, human resources or research in the field (6-7). (who.int)
  • Consequently, there is tremendous opportunity to improve disaster mental health risk reduction through rigorous research and informed policy. (who.int)
  • Thus, targeted and wel -timed research is required to reliably demonstrate the mental health impacts of disasters. (who.int)
  • Bioethics researchers have responded to these conditions by investigating the ethical challenges of pandemic response for individuals, institutions, and health systems. (cdc.gov)
  • Borrowing from the concept of translational science in medicine, this essay proposes that translational bioethics should communicate knowledge about ethical challenges in health-care work to support health systems change. (cdc.gov)
  • Students in this program spend the remaining time in NIOSH laboratories and offices, getting hands-on experience in the field of research and assuring safety and health for all workers. (cdc.gov)
  • Regionally, also create many jobs in the health care, pharmaceutical in Saudi Arabia, most participants in a study were and research fields and contribute to increased profits for aware of clinical trials but had several misconceptions companies involved and national institutions (1-3) . (who.int)
  • He has served as a member of the board of directors and the executive committee for the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities. (ohsu.edu)
  • Scientific and Research Committee of MRC. (gov.hu)
  • Livestock Animal Bioethics Committee. (cdc.gov)
  • How research and researchers are assessed has a huge influence on what science is done, who does it and how they behave," said Ottoline Leyser, Professor of Plant Development at the University of Cambridge, and Chair of the Council's project on research culture. (nuffieldbioethics.org)
  • Throughout our project we found there to be widespread misperceptions or mistrust among researchers about the use of metrics in research. (nuffieldbioethics.org)
  • Although there is great emphasis by researchers to discuss topics about bioethics in workshops, seminars, meetings etc, teaching of bioethics courses to students is not taken seriously," stated a 2008 report on scientific policy and ethical review in Sudan. (universityworldnews.com)
  • WASHINGTON, D.C. - The National Bioethics Advisory Commission (NBAC) today released a report that would put the U.S. in the unenviable position of endorsing ethics standards for American researchers that are lower than those required by the World Medical Association?s Declaration of Helsinki. (citizen.org)
  • Therefore it is necessary to summarize for both the researchers performing trials and to lay society all those ethical aspects, which might be regularly faced in the everyday practice of research. (gov.hu)
  • The program aims to make the research results accessible to participants, and it is developing new approaches to generate, access, and make data broadly available to approved researchers. (cdc.gov)
  • Progress With the All of Us Research Program: Opening Access for Researchers. (cdc.gov)
  • The Center for Bioethics and Culture Network (CBC) addresses bioethical issues that most profoundly affect our humanity, especially issues that arise in the lives of the most vulnerable among us. (cbc-network.org)
  • The course includes interviews with world leaders of bioethical research. (edleed.com)
  • The Bioethics Research Library offers a wide range of books, journals, newspaper articles, regulations, codes, government publications and more on biomedical and professional ethics issues. (georgetown.edu)
  • While our faculty members and students come from a wide variety of backgrounds, they all share an intellectual commitment to advancing our understanding of clinical ethics, research ethics and bioethics policy. (clarkson.edu)
  • Today, the center comprises of twelve faculty members with additional research and support staff who are committed to quality patient care, research and education. (clevelandclinic.org)
  • Twelve faculty and two fellows, along with research and support staff who are committed to quality patient care, research and education. (clevelandclinic.org)
  • The Edward Bennett Williams Law Library supports the research and educational endeavors of the students and faculty of the Georgetown University Law Center. (georgetown.edu)
  • The self-perpetuating cycle of excluding pregnant women from research and from the benefits of vaccination must end," said Carleigh Krubiner , an associate faculty member with joint appointments in the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and the Center for Global Development, and a lead author of the report. (jhu.edu)
  • Schwartz Rounds™ at the University of Kentucky are sponsored by the UK Program for Bioethics in coordination with the Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare. (uky.edu)
  • She is also certified in healthcare ethics consultation through the American Society for Bioethics & Humanities (HEC-C). (ohsu.edu)
  • She was a member of the American Society for Bioethics & Humanities Board of Directors and has served on two task forces to update the Core Competencies in Healthcare Ethics Consultation. (ohsu.edu)
  • Society is particularly interested in the results of this field of science once they are also related to healthcare, therefore these researches are constantly under spotlight. (gov.hu)
  • How Should the Risks of Infecting Research Participants with SARS-CoV-2 be Assessed? (unc.edu)
  • The Review draws upon and supports many of the findings of the Council's project on The culture of scientific research in the UK , which included a survey of almost 1000 scientists and others, and a series of discussion events at universities around the UK. (nuffieldbioethics.org)
  • These initiatives will partially help in tackling deficiencies in the tertiary education system as well as promoting the role of scientific research carried out at universities in the development of local technologies," Abdelgadir told University World News . (universityworldnews.com)
  • Scientific research activities always constitute the subject of social interest. (gov.hu)
  • The scientific research is increasingly protagonist in the academic area. (bvsalud.org)
  • Thus, it is of central importance in the election of scientific research themes that will ultimately affect individuals and collectivities. (bvsalud.org)
  • Like HEIs, research funders should develop their own context-specific principles for the use of quantitative indicators in research assessment and management and ensure that these are well communicated, easy to locate and understand. (nuffieldbioethics.org)
  • Qur'an 5:32) It is this verse which has ultimately fueled the interest in Islamic bioethics and within it exist two basic principles which ensure that the sanctity of human life is preserved: Saving a life is obligatory. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the case of human, biomedical clinical research activities, there may arise numerous special standpoints to be taken into account besides general principles, which anticipate the need for a codex of bioethics resuming the peculiarities of the field. (gov.hu)
  • Students will be asked to explore real cases and articles dealing with bioethics, according to the principles of bioethics. (edleed.com)
  • They will be able to provide reasonable justification ethical decisions and be able to apply ethical principles of the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights. (edleed.com)
  • In Part 1, the introductory part of the course, we describe ethical law, bioethics, and the major principles of UNESCO's Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights. (edleed.com)
  • The perspectives of pregnant women themselves should inform vaccine research and deployment decisions that may mean life or death for them and/or their babies. (jhu.edu)
  • The way we have treated pregnant women in vaccine research and deployment is utterly unacceptable," said Ruth R. Faden , a lead author of the report and founding director of the Berman Institute. (jhu.edu)
  • Many post-World War II international structures are what might be called bioethics adjacent: They are not strictly part of the set of widely recognized global bioethics standards and instruments, like the Declaration of Helsinki, but they overlap with concerns routinely expressed in bioethics. (thehastingscenter.org)
  • The Bioethics program was founded in 2001 as one of the country's first hybrid programs. (clarkson.edu)
  • The Program for Bioethics presents Clinical Ethics Grand Rounds monthly September through November and February through April each year. (uky.edu)
  • The Program for Bioethics presents the Research Ethics Lecture Series monthly September through November and February through April each year. (uky.edu)
  • Juliet Taylor, M.A. Candidate in the Duke University Bioethics and Science Policy program. (nih.gov)
  • A two-year training program is proposed that will lead to the granting of a Master Degree to six individuals from Egypt and the conduct of research ethics workshops to scores of individuals in Egypt. (grantome.com)
  • The first year of the training program will provide trainees with an intensive academic experience in clinical research methodology and statistics, and bioethics as well as practical experiences in teaching, research, and ethical review of research. (grantome.com)
  • During the second year of the training program trainees will conduct a bioethics research project in Egypt and participate in further teaching and IRB experiences. (grantome.com)
  • Through a Data Use Agreement with the All of Us Research Program, scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention can now register to access and analyze All of Us Research Program Data through a cloud platform. (cdc.gov)
  • The NIH All of Us Research Program. (cdc.gov)
  • The team, the Pregnancy Research Ethics for Vaccines, Epidemics, and New Technologies Working Group, or PREVENT, is led by experts at Johns Hopkins University and includes investigators from Georgetown University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. (jhu.edu)
  • The Center is seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher in Ethics and Infectious Disease to carry out research on ethical issues in infectious disease and pandemics. (bioethicscenter.net)
  • We have extensive international experience of research in applied bioethics, biotechnology assessment and the sociology of science and technology. (nottingham.ac.uk)
  • We also offer a dual graduate certificate in Bioethics and Pastoral Care. (amc.edu)
  • It also provides information and research services for undergraduate and graduate programs in those fields. (georgetown.edu)
  • Recent scholarship has advocated that the ethical conduct of research in these countries requires local bioethics expertise input and authority. (grantome.com)
  • and the NIH-DOE Joint Working Group on Ethical, Legal and Social Implications of Human Genome Research. (bioedge.org)
  • In addition to academic programs, the Department of Bioethics educates the wider community through speaker series, webinars and international initiatives. (clarkson.edu)
  • Assessment of the All of Us research program's informed consent process. (cdc.gov)
  • These issues are similarly important for research design: early assessment will il ustrate elevated patterns of distress across the population, which is likely to diminish over time for the vast majority. (who.int)
  • The bioethics group works closely with staff across the University of Nottingham including the School of Veterinary Medicine and Science, and the School of Sociology and Social Policy. (nottingham.ac.uk)
  • The report of the Review provides a thoughtful analysis of the effects of the use of metrics on different aspects of research culture. (nuffieldbioethics.org)
  • The establishment of a UNESCO chair for biosciences ethics at the University of Khartoum in Sudan should strengthen related teaching and research programmes, while the recent opening of a branch of the Arab Science and Technology Foundation in the capital is set to boost university-industry alliances. (universityworldnews.com)
  • Developing advanced brain models to treat Alzheimers disease and taking responsibility for the ethical and philosophical issues raised by brain research. (uu.se)
  • Islamic bioethics, or Islamic medical ethics, (Arabic: الأخلاق الطبية al-akhlaq al-tibbiyyah) refers to Islamic guidance on ethical or moral issues relating to medical and scientific fields, in particular, those dealing with human life. (wikipedia.org)
  • This talk will draw from experience conducting paediatric clinical trials and will include issues around minimal risks, parental consent, child assent and the notion of vulnerabilities in research. (bioethicseducation.org)
  • An expert on medical issues at Harvard Law School, I. Glenn Cohen, has analysed the challenge of AI for bioethics. (bioedge.org)
  • Dr. Bob Weise talks about issues related to Christian bioethics. (kfuo.org)
  • To address this problem, Colin Kelliher, an undergraduate student from the Catholic University of America, undertook a summer internship project on air management at the NIOSH Division of Safety Research . (cdc.gov)
  • Paul Wagle, M.A., discusses his experience with a life-saving adult stem cell treatment, and the importance of promoting ethical approaches to medical research. (flfamily.org)
  • Because CIRCARE doesn't accept funds from pharmaceutical or medical device manufacturers, we depend on contributions from individuals like you to help us advocate for meaningful protection of human subjects in research. (circare.org)
  • A report last week in the New York Times of a pig heart transplant performed at the University of Maryland Medical Center exemplifies a common myopic view of xenotransplantation research. (thehastingscenter.org)
  • The Islamic Medical and Scientific Ethics (IMSE) Project is a multinational effort to produce a comprehensive collection of Islamic bioethics resources. (wikipedia.org)
  • Your course of study begins with the foundations of bioethics history and law and proceeds to coursework covering the key topics in your chosen specialization. (clarkson.edu)
  • Bioethics is the study of controversial ethics brought about by advances in biology and medicine. (kfuo.org)
  • Existing research into what motivates people to undertake cosmetic procedures has highlighted both societal factors such as the pressure to look young and attractive, media and celebrity influences, and personal factors such as body dissatisfaction, self-esteem, teasing, and the experiences of family and friends.The Council wants to find out more about what influences people's attitudes to cosmetic procedures and their decisions to seek and undergo treatments. (nuffieldbioethics.org)
  • For bot reasons of science (the need to demonstrate efficacy in the population for whom a treatment is intended) and distributive justice (the need to assure that vulnerable individuals have equal access to potentially beneficial treatments), the participation of individuals with IDD in research is important (Yan & Munir, 2004). (cdc.gov)
  • The Center for Bioethics on Cleveland Clinic's Main Campus has provided clinically-based services in support of quality patient care since 1984. (clevelandclinic.org)
  • Most training is done through the NIOSH supported Education and Research Centers (see related blog ). (cdc.gov)
  • As water scarcity reaches critical levels globally, a research team at the United Arab Emirates University seeks to revolutionise seawater desalination practices, offering a path to mitigate water scarcity while championing environmental preservation. (universityworldnews.com)