Elizabeth Heitman
Biographic Data
| ID | 2454933 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Heitman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Heitman |
| SIGNATURE | HEITMAN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4855-8551 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Ethical Challenges Posed by HIV-Vaccine Induced Seropositivity for the Informed Consent Process and HIV Testing Practices in Maputo City, Mozambique
Mozambique has a robust HIV control program and currently conducts HIV vaccine trials. One measure of a vaccine's success is development of antibodies, the vaccine-induced seropositivity(VISP). This study assesses the understanding and practices regarding VISP from trial participants and healthcare providers, as well as ethical challenges encountered during the informed consent. We conducted in-depth, semi-structured interviews using open and clo…
Frontline Healthcare Professionals' Perceptions of the Duty to Care During the Covid‐19 Pandemic
COVID-19 intensified ethical tensions between clinicians' duty to care and self-protection amid PPE shortages. We explored frontline healthcare professionals' perspectives in Maputo, Mozambique. Semi-structured interviews with healthcare professionals at four hospitals (April-June 2022) were recorded in Portuguese, transcribed, and thematically analyzed. Fixed-response items were captured in REDCap and summarized descriptively. Fifty-three respon…
Domain-Specific Physical Activity and Obesity Risk among Black Men in the United States
Outcomes and evaluation of a National Institutes of Health funded training program for doctoral students
INTRODUCTION: A novel Graduate Training and Education Center (GTEC) under the National Institutes of Health funded Jackson Heart Study (JHS) at the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) was launched for doctoral students from backgrounds underrepresented in biomedical sciences. UMMC GTEC supports scholars through a program in cardiovascular epidemiology with research training institutes, scientific mentoring, and participation in profes…
What Retractions Tell Us About Research Integrity in Mexican Academia
Research integrity remains a challenge to public trust in science around the world. Retracted scientific papers can erode the public's trust by raising doubt about the reliability of the published literature. This paper assesses article retractions involving Mexican authors through analysis of relevant data and retraction patterns. The study examines 55 retracted articles with Mexican corresponding authors, categorizing them by publication venue,…
Stroke Incidence and High-Sensitivity C-Reactive Protein Among African Americans
An increased and independent risk of nonfatal stroke appears at the highest quintile of hs-CRP values (≥0.0676 mg/L) among JHS participants
Fogarty-Funded Research Ethics Education in Latin America and the Caribbean
Ten years have passed since the last regional assessment of the state of Fogarty International Center-funded research ethics education and challenges facing research ethics in Latin America and the Caribbean basin. Program directors and faculty from four international research ethics education programs met in Spring 2024 to discuss their progress, challenges, and future priorities. The themes that emerged from these discussions were the structura…
Strengthening Research Ethics Capacity in West Africa, 2015–2024
This article reviews the development and evolution of Fogarty International Center-funded research ethics training programs in West Africa over the past decade. In response to local and global challenges in bioethics and biomedical research, these programs are fostering ethical awareness, shaping local and national ethics review systems, and enhancing bioethics capacity in the region. These efforts have expanded alongside increased democratic gov…
Public trust in regulatory agencies and support for policies on agricultural gene drive
Public trust in government agencies plays an important role in the formation of public opinion about public policy issues. However, the association between public trust in regulatory agencies and public support for policy development in emergent biotechnologies such as gene drive is not well understood. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are tas…
Adherence to the healthy eating index-2010 and alternative healthy eating index-2010 in relation to metabolic syndrome among African Americans in the Jackson heart study
Objective: The primary objective of this study was to determine whether Healthy Eating Index (HEI) and Alternative Healthy Eating Index (AHEI) scores were associated with incident metabolic syndrome. Design: This study is a secondary analysis of data from the Jackson Heart Study. HEI and AHEI scores were divided into quintiles and Cox proportional hazards regression models were analysed for 1864 African American adults free from metabolic syndrom…
Social and Behavioral Factors Associated with BMI and Waist Circumference among Adolescents
Knowledge is limited about how sex or gender interact with social and behavioral factors to influence African Americans' health and additional studies are needed to specify how these factors interact to accelerate weight gain and adipose tissue accumulation over the life course
Latin American healthcare systems in times of pandemic
The COVID‐ 19 pandemic is a critical test for the already overburdened and mostly underfunded public healthcare systems of Latin America. In a region that suffers from severe inequalities, public healthcare systems are the only source of medical care for a large sector of the population who work in the informal economy or are unemployed. State‐run hospitals and clinics are already overstressed by continuous demand for treatment of vector‐borne di…
Conversation Cafés and Conceptual Framework Formation for Research Training and Mentoring of Underrepresented Faculty at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
The development of research training opportunities for investigators from the untapped pool of traditionally underrepresented racial/ethnic groups has gained intense interest at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The significant and persistent disparity in the likelihood of R01 funding between African American and Whites was highlighted in the groundbreaking 2011 report, Race, Ethnicity, and NIH Research Awards . Disparities in funding succ…
Writing Accountability Groups Are a Tool for Academic Success
By providing a structured approach to developing and/or enhancing a practice of consistent writing, time management skills, and collaborative relationships, the WAG has promise for enhancing scientific writing skills for many trainees and early-career faculty. Longer term follow-up is needed to more fully assess the potential impact of WAGs
Assessing Trustworthiness in Research
When scholars express concern about trust in science, they often focus on whether the public trusts research findings. This study explores a different dimension of trust and examines whether and how frequently researchers misrepresent their research accomplishments when applying for a faculty position. We collected all of the vitae submitted for faculty positions at a large research university for 1 year and reviewed a 10% sample for accuracy. Of…
Theory-Informed Research Training and Mentoring of Underrepresented Early-Career Faculty at Teaching-Intensive Institutions
Mentoring has been consistently identified as an important element for career advancement in many biomedical and health professional disciplines and has been found to be critical for success and promotion in academic settings. Early-career faculty from groups underrepresented in biomedical research, however, are less likely to have mentors, and in general, receive less mentoring than their majority-group peers, particularly among those employed i…
Assessment of Parents’/Guardians’ Initial Comprehension and 1-Day Recall of Elements of Informed Consent Within a Mozambican Study of Pediatric Bacteremia
Participants' understanding of key elements of a research protocol is essential to their ethical enrollment in the study. Ongoing participation should be based on continued comprehension and consent, which presumes a high degree of recall. Many obstacles can prevent full understanding of information about the research protocol. This study's aim was to evaluate the comprehension and 1-day recall of the elements of informed consent by the parents/g…
Twelve Years of Fogarty-Funded Bioethics Training in Latin America and the Caribbean
The landscape in research ethics has changed significantly in Latin America and the Caribbean over the past two decades. Research ethics has gone from being a largely foreign concept and unfamiliar practice to an integral and growing feature of regional health research systems. Four bioethics training programs have been funded by the Fogarty International Center (FIC) in this region in the past 12 years. Overall, they have contributed significant…
Research Ethics Education for Community-Engaged Research
Community engagement is increasingly becoming an integral part of research. “Community-engaged research” (CEnR) introduces new stakeholders as well as unique challenges to the protection of participants and the integrity of the research process. We—a group of representatives of CTSA-funded institutions and others who share expertise in research ethics and CEnR—have identified gaps in the literature regarding (1) ethical issues unique to CEnR; (2)…
Perspective
Ethical Values in the Education of Biomedical Researchers
Research is relatively new activity for physicians--scientific medicine and the culture of research that supports it date from only the beginning of this century. Whereas Western physicians have discussed ethical values in patient care for over 2,000 years, true discourse on the ethics of biomedical research has developed only in the last few decades. Instruction in the ethics of biomedical research has become part of the professional development…
Ethical Values in the Education of Biomedical Researchers
Twelve Years of Fogarty-Funded Bioethics Training in Latin America and the Caribbean
The landscape in research ethics has changed significantly in Latin America and the Caribbean over the past two decades. Research ethics has gone from being a largely foreign concept and unfamiliar practice to an integral and growing feature of regional health research systems. Four bioethics training programs have been funded by the Fogarty International Center (FIC) in this region in the past 12 years. Overall, they have contributed significant…
Public trust in regulatory agencies and support for policies on agricultural gene drive
Public trust in government agencies plays an important role in the formation of public opinion about public policy issues. However, the association between public trust in regulatory agencies and public support for policy development in emergent biotechnologies such as gene drive is not well understood. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are tas…
Assessing Trustworthiness in Research
When scholars express concern about trust in science, they often focus on whether the public trusts research findings. This study explores a different dimension of trust and examines whether and how frequently researchers misrepresent their research accomplishments when applying for a faculty position. We collected all of the vitae submitted for faculty positions at a large research university for 1 year and reviewed a 10% sample for accuracy. Of…
Ethical Values in the Education of Biomedical Researchers
Research is relatively new activity for physicians--scientific medicine and the culture of research that supports it date from only the beginning of this century. Whereas Western physicians have discussed ethical values in patient care for over 2,000 years, true discourse on the ethics of biomedical research has developed only in the last few decades. Instruction in the ethics of biomedical research has become part of the professional development…
Ethical Values in the Education of Biomedical Researchers
Perspective
Research Ethics Education for Community-Engaged Research
Community engagement is increasingly becoming an integral part of research. “Community-engaged research” (CEnR) introduces new stakeholders as well as unique challenges to the protection of participants and the integrity of the research process. We—a group of representatives of CTSA-funded institutions and others who share expertise in research ethics and CEnR—have identified gaps in the literature regarding (1) ethical issues unique to CEnR; (2)…
Twelve Years of Fogarty-Funded Bioethics Training in Latin America and the Caribbean
The landscape in research ethics has changed significantly in Latin America and the Caribbean over the past two decades. Research ethics has gone from being a largely foreign concept and unfamiliar practice to an integral and growing feature of regional health research systems. Four bioethics training programs have been funded by the Fogarty International Center (FIC) in this region in the past 12 years. Overall, they have contributed significant…
Theory-Informed Research Training and Mentoring of Underrepresented Early-Career Faculty at Teaching-Intensive Institutions
Mentoring has been consistently identified as an important element for career advancement in many biomedical and health professional disciplines and has been found to be critical for success and promotion in academic settings. Early-career faculty from groups underrepresented in biomedical research, however, are less likely to have mentors, and in general, receive less mentoring than their majority-group peers, particularly among those employed i…
Assessment of Parents’/Guardians’ Initial Comprehension and 1-Day Recall of Elements of Informed Consent Within a Mozambican Study of Pediatric Bacteremia
Participants' understanding of key elements of a research protocol is essential to their ethical enrollment in the study. Ongoing participation should be based on continued comprehension and consent, which presumes a high degree of recall. Many obstacles can prevent full understanding of information about the research protocol. This study's aim was to evaluate the comprehension and 1-day recall of the elements of informed consent by the parents/g…
Assessing Trustworthiness in Research
When scholars express concern about trust in science, they often focus on whether the public trusts research findings. This study explores a different dimension of trust and examines whether and how frequently researchers misrepresent their research accomplishments when applying for a faculty position. We collected all of the vitae submitted for faculty positions at a large research university for 1 year and reviewed a 10% sample for accuracy. Of…
Latin American healthcare systems in times of pandemic
The COVID‐ 19 pandemic is a critical test for the already overburdened and mostly underfunded public healthcare systems of Latin America. In a region that suffers from severe inequalities, public healthcare systems are the only source of medical care for a large sector of the population who work in the informal economy or are unemployed. State‐run hospitals and clinics are already overstressed by continuous demand for treatment of vector‐borne di…
Conversation Cafés and Conceptual Framework Formation for Research Training and Mentoring of Underrepresented Faculty at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
The development of research training opportunities for investigators from the untapped pool of traditionally underrepresented racial/ethnic groups has gained intense interest at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The significant and persistent disparity in the likelihood of R01 funding between African American and Whites was highlighted in the groundbreaking 2011 report, Race, Ethnicity, and NIH Research Awards . Disparities in funding succ…
Writing Accountability Groups Are a Tool for Academic Success
By providing a structured approach to developing and/or enhancing a practice of consistent writing, time management skills, and collaborative relationships, the WAG has promise for enhancing scientific writing skills for many trainees and early-career faculty. Longer term follow-up is needed to more fully assess the potential impact of WAGs
Social and Behavioral Factors Associated with BMI and Waist Circumference among Adolescents
Knowledge is limited about how sex or gender interact with social and behavioral factors to influence African Americans' health and additional studies are needed to specify how these factors interact to accelerate weight gain and adipose tissue accumulation over the life course
Adherence to the healthy eating index-2010 and alternative healthy eating index-2010 in relation to metabolic syndrome among African Americans in the Jackson heart study
Objective: The primary objective of this study was to determine whether Healthy Eating Index (HEI) and Alternative Healthy Eating Index (AHEI) scores were associated with incident metabolic syndrome. Design: This study is a secondary analysis of data from the Jackson Heart Study. HEI and AHEI scores were divided into quintiles and Cox proportional hazards regression models were analysed for 1864 African American adults free from metabolic syndrom…
Outcomes and evaluation of a National Institutes of Health funded training program for doctoral students
INTRODUCTION: A novel Graduate Training and Education Center (GTEC) under the National Institutes of Health funded Jackson Heart Study (JHS) at the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) was launched for doctoral students from backgrounds underrepresented in biomedical sciences. UMMC GTEC supports scholars through a program in cardiovascular epidemiology with research training institutes, scientific mentoring, and participation in profes…
What Retractions Tell Us About Research Integrity in Mexican Academia
Research integrity remains a challenge to public trust in science around the world. Retracted scientific papers can erode the public's trust by raising doubt about the reliability of the published literature. This paper assesses article retractions involving Mexican authors through analysis of relevant data and retraction patterns. The study examines 55 retracted articles with Mexican corresponding authors, categorizing them by publication venue,…
Stroke Incidence and High-Sensitivity C-Reactive Protein Among African Americans
An increased and independent risk of nonfatal stroke appears at the highest quintile of hs-CRP values (≥0.0676 mg/L) among JHS participants
Fogarty-Funded Research Ethics Education in Latin America and the Caribbean
Ten years have passed since the last regional assessment of the state of Fogarty International Center-funded research ethics education and challenges facing research ethics in Latin America and the Caribbean basin. Program directors and faculty from four international research ethics education programs met in Spring 2024 to discuss their progress, challenges, and future priorities. The themes that emerged from these discussions were the structura…
Strengthening Research Ethics Capacity in West Africa, 2015–2024
This article reviews the development and evolution of Fogarty International Center-funded research ethics training programs in West Africa over the past decade. In response to local and global challenges in bioethics and biomedical research, these programs are fostering ethical awareness, shaping local and national ethics review systems, and enhancing bioethics capacity in the region. These efforts have expanded alongside increased democratic gov…
Public trust in regulatory agencies and support for policies on agricultural gene drive
Public trust in government agencies plays an important role in the formation of public opinion about public policy issues. However, the association between public trust in regulatory agencies and public support for policy development in emergent biotechnologies such as gene drive is not well understood. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are tas…
Ethical Challenges Posed by HIV-Vaccine Induced Seropositivity for the Informed Consent Process and HIV Testing Practices in Maputo City, Mozambique
Mozambique has a robust HIV control program and currently conducts HIV vaccine trials. One measure of a vaccine's success is development of antibodies, the vaccine-induced seropositivity(VISP). This study assesses the understanding and practices regarding VISP from trial participants and healthcare providers, as well as ethical challenges encountered during the informed consent. We conducted in-depth, semi-structured interviews using open and clo…
Frontline Healthcare Professionals' Perceptions of the Duty to Care During the Covid‐19 Pandemic
COVID-19 intensified ethical tensions between clinicians' duty to care and self-protection amid PPE shortages. We explored frontline healthcare professionals' perspectives in Maputo, Mozambique. Semi-structured interviews with healthcare professionals at four hospitals (April-June 2022) were recorded in Portuguese, transcribed, and thematically analyzed. Fixed-response items were captured in REDCap and summarized descriptively. Fifty-three respon…
Domain-Specific Physical Activity and Obesity Risk among Black Men in the United States
Medicine (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Ethics in Clinical Research (8 works) · Medical education (8 works) · Research ethics (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Engineering (5 works) · Engineering ethics (5 works) · Ethics in medical practice (5 works)