Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences explained

Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences
Formation:1949
Headquarters:Geneva, Switzerland
Leader Title:President
Leader Name:Hervé LeLouet
Leader Title2:Vice President
Leader Name2:Samia Hurst
Leader Title3:Secretary-General
Leader Name3:Lembit Rägo
Website:https://cioms.ch

The Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences (CIOMS) is an international non-governmental organization of 40 international, national, and associate member groups representing the biomedical science community.[1] It was jointly established by the World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 1949 as a successor to the International Medical Congress that organized 17 conferences from 1867 until the 1913 outbreak of World War I.[2]

The group's main goal is advancing public health by publishing guidelines on ethics, product development, and safety in medical research, such as the 2016 International Ethical Guidelines for Health-Related Research Involving Humans.[3]

Governance

The General Assembly of all CIOMS member organizations meets every year, alternating between in-person and teleconference formats, to elect the Executive Committee and its voting President. The Executive Committee of twelve representatives from national and international member groups meets at least one a year, appointing and guiding the Secretariat, consisting of the Secretary-General and their team in Geneva, Switzerland. The Executive Committee can invite non-voting ad hoc observers and technical experts.[4]

Round Tables and Working Groups

After its 1948 founding by UNESCO and the WHO as the Council for Coordination of International Medical Congresses, these UN specialized agencies funded its first conference in Brussels, Belgium. In 1952, the group was renamed as the Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences (CIOMS) to reflect a focus on guiding member organizations that internally organize field-specific conferences. From 1967 to 1997, it organized annual round tables on medical science topics, offering a standardized conference format:[5]

In 1990, CIOMS shifted to a format of assembling working groups of scientists from regulatory bodies, industry, and academia to meet for 2–4 years to reach consensus with other stakeholders and publish recommended guidelines.[6] When the working groups are composed solely of CIOMS members, they are assigned a sequential identifier, whereas partnerships with outside groups are known by their specific topic:

All reports are available from https://cioms.ch/publications/; Titles marked with * are not yet published (still work in progress)

Publications

In March 1959, Austin Bradford Hill, then director of the UK Medical Research Council's Statistical Research Unit, chaired a Vienna-based CIOMS conference on controlled clinical trials. The proceedings, published in 1960, commented on research ethics, experimental design, and statistical analysis. Hill would later outline "Bradford Hill criteria" for establishing causal relationships between statistically correlated phenomena.[7]

This publication laid the groundwork for CIOMS' 1982, 1993, 2002, 2009, and 2016 versions of International Ethical Guidelines for Health-Related Research Involving Humans. These guidelines have been praised for including diverse stakeholders from low- and middle-income countries, compared to the Declaration of Helsinki written by physicians of the World Medical Association. While neither of these documents are legally binding like the Council of Europe's Oviedo Convention, their role as recommended guidelines avoids ethical imperialism.[8]

The first CIOMS working group produced a reporting form for adverse drug reactions, which shaped the International Council for Harmonization of Technical Requirements for Pharmaceuticals for Human Use (ICH)'s E2B guideline.[9] The International Organization for Standardization (ISO), European Committee for Standardization (CEN), and Health Level Seven International (HL7) used these guidelines in publishing the ISO/HL7 27953:2011 standards on Health Informatics: Individual Case Safety Reports (ICSRs) in Pharmacovigilance.[10]

Membership

International Members

National Members

Associate Members

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2022 . About . 2022-11-29 . Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences . en-US.
  2. CIOMS: Organization, Activities, and Members . Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences (CIOMS) . 1995.
  3. International Ethical Guidelines for Health-Related Research Involving Humans . Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences (CIOMS) . World Health Organization (WHO) . 2016.
  4. Web site: 2022 . Governance . 2022-11-29 . Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences . en-US.
  5. CIOMS Special Newsletter . Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences (CIOMS) . 11 April 2019.
  6. Web site: 2022 . Former Working Groups . 2022-11-29 . Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences . en-US.
  7. Web site: Bird . Sheila M. . 2014 . The 1959 Meeting in Vienna on Controlled Clinical Trials – A Methodological Landmark . 2022-11-30 . The James Lind Library . en-GB.
  8. Book: Busby, Helen . Modes of Influence: What Can We Learn From International Codes of Ethics for Health-Related Research? . Modes of influence . 2022 . Ethical Evidence and Policymaking . 86–100 . Iphofen . Ron . Interdisciplinary and International Research . 1 . Bristol University Press . 10.2307/j.ctv2tbwqd5.9 . j.ctv2tbwqd5.9 . 978-1-4473-6395-8 . 2022-11-30 . O’Mathúna . Dónal.
  9. Tsintis . Panos . La Mache . Edith . 2004-07-01 . CIOMS and ICH Initiatives in Pharmacovigilance and Risk Management . Drug Safety . en . 27 . 8 . 509–517 . 10.2165/00002018-200427080-00004 . 15154824 . 23598726 . 1179-1942.
  10. Web site: June 2021 . E2B(R3) Individual Case Safety Report (ICSR) Specification and Related Files . 2022-11-30 . International Council for Harmonization of Technical Requirements for Pharmaceuticals for Human Use (ICH).
  11. Web site: 2022 . CIOMS Members . 2022-11-29 . Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences . en-US.

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