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Officials outline Belmont Report’s three principles and urge stronger consent practices
Summary
At a Belmont Report commemoration, federal health officials described the report’s principles—respect for persons, beneficence and justice—and urged clear informed-consent practices in modern research.
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya defined the Belmont Report’s core principles at the commemoration, saying respect for persons means volunteers should be fully informed before enrolling in studies, beneficence requires minimizing harm, and justice prevents coercion and economic exploitation. "When we conduct an experiment, any experiment, whoever we recruit to volunteer for that experiment should know what they're getting into," Bhattacharya said.
Dr. Stephanie Herodopoulos, identified at the event as principal deputy assistant secretary of health and director of national health communications for the Office of the Surgeon General, reiterated that patients should know risks and benefits and be screened properly under Belmont principles. Their remarks connected longstanding ethical standards to contemporary expectations for consent and participant protections across clinical research.
