VolREthics and the Global Ethics Charter

The Healthy Volunteers Alliance (HVA) created this page to help bring greater awareness to VolREthics and the Global Ethics Charter for Healthy Volunteers.

The goal is to help participants, research staff, sponsors, and the public better understand what the Charter represents, why it was created, and why these discussions matter for healthy volunteers participating in clinical research.

What is VolREthics?

VolREthics is an international organization focused on ethical standards, transparency, and participant protections involving healthy volunteers in clinical research. The organization brings attention to issues affecting healthy research participants and promotes greater awareness, fairness, and understanding throughout the clinical research system.

What is the Global Ethics Charter?

The Global Ethics Charter for Healthy Volunteers was developed to help encourage greater ethical standards, transparency, fairness, and participant understanding within clinical research involving healthy volunteers.

The Charter addresses important topics involving participant protections, informed consent, communication, compensation, and the overall treatment and respect of healthy volunteers throughout the research process.

The Global Ethics Charter for Healthy Volunteers

See the full PDF version of the Global Ethics Charter for Healthy Volunteers below.