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...September 1999, Gwendolyn Zahner, a psychiatric epidemiologist and former assistant professor at SPH, filed a complaint with the Office for Protection from Research Risks in Washington, D.C. questioning medical research conducted by the University...
...page complaint recently obtained by The Boston Globe, Zahner--who according to SPH officials was denied tenure in 1998--questioned whether illiterate study participants actually consented to genetic research and whether their identities were kept confidential from Chinese government officials...
...SPH officials denied the claims, saying that Harvard follows the same research practices overseas that it does in the United States...
...There is nothing being done [in China] to create any anxiety," said SPH spokesperson Robin Herman. "We care deeply about the safety, privacy and confidentiality of our participants, and we always have...
Herman said that most of the studies conducted by SPH in China are observational, only requiring participants to fill out questionnaires, take blood pressure tests or give blood samples for DNA analysis...