INTEGRITY
INTernational Ethical Guidance for Research Involving deceased donation and Transplantation activitY (INTEGRITY)
The INTEGRITY Project, led by the European Society of Organ Transplantation (ESOT) in partnership with the International Society for Organ Donation Professionals (ISODP) and the Transplantation Society (TTS), aims to develop an international framework to ethically guide the design, implementation, and evaluation of research involving deceased donation and transplantation activities.
PUBLIC CONSULTATION on the DRAFT Guidelines
The project team has produced a draft version of the proposed Guidelines. This draft is available for review and feedback until 31st October 2025. We encourage all individuals and organizations with an interest in deceased donation and transplantation of organs, cells, and tissues, in research that involves deceased donors or deceased donation, and/or in research ethics to participate in our consultation survey.
If you have personal experience of deceased donation as a member of a donor family, or as a recipient of a transplant from a deceased donor, we especially welcome your feedback on the draft. Please note that the guidelines are intended for use by researchers, donation and transplantation professionals, and research ethics committees, however we intend to develop a version of the guidelines that will be more accessible to the general public.
The survey provides an organized mechanism for everyone to indicate how much they agree or disagree with the draft principles, and to provide feedback via comments.
The feedback questionnaire and the draft Guidelines are available in Arabic, English, Portuguese (Brazilian), Chinese, French, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish.
To download a draft copy of the guidelines, please click on your preferred language. We strongly recommend reviewing the draft pdf before commencing the feedback survey as the draft document contains important preamble text that explains the scope of the guidelines, as well as a glossary of key terms. Please note there may be formatting and minor translation errors in the draft versions. If in doubt regarding the intended meaning of a translated principle, please refer to the English version of the draft text.
To participate in the consultation (and access the feedback survey), please click here: https://redcap.link/integrity
For more information about the project or to get involved, please contact us via bioethics@deakin.edu.au
Project Team
Core members
Dominique Martin, Australia (Chair)
Ali Abbasi, USA
Riadh Fadhil, Qatar
John Forsythe, United Kingdom
Matthieu Le Dorze, France
Jayme Locke, USA
Elmi Muller, South Africa
Gabriel Oniscu, Sweden
Helen Opdam, Australia
Karen Rockell, United Kingdom
Marion Siebelink, Netherlands
Shih-Ning Then, Australia
Emma Tumilty, USA
Collaborators (TBC)
| Juntaro Ashikari, Japan | Georgina Irish, Australia | Rebecca Pentz, USA |
| Pacifico Calderon, Philippines | Wenshi Jiang, China | Alicia Perez Blanco, Spain |
| Elena Cavazzoni, Australia | Heather Machin, Australia | Farrah Raza, United Kingdom |
| Jessie Cooper, United Kingdom | Francisco Martinez, Mexico | Rizmina Rilwan, Sri Lanka |
| Celeste De Vaal, South Africa | Maria Victoria Martinez Lopez, Spain | Sharon Santon, South Africa |
| Beatriz Dominguez-Gil, Spain | Monica Mathor, Brazil | Sibele Schuantes, Sweden |
| Claire Gordon, Australia | Roli Mathur, India | David Thomson, South Africa |
| Rosalie Grivell, Australia | Sumytra Menon, Singapore | Sandra Venter, South Africa |
| Dan Harvey, United Kingdom | Olivia Ngan, Hong Kong | Matt Weiss, Canada |
| Marisa Herson, Australia | Jeff Orlowski, USA | Matthew Wellberry-Smith, United Kingdom |
| Alison Hodak, Australia | Brendan Parent, USA | Wai Tat Wong, Hong Kong |
Translations
A huge thanks to those who have assisted with translations of the draft guidelines for the Consultation. Please note that NONE of the errors in the draft and survey questionnaire should be attributed to these individuals!
- Dr Ahmed Akl, Saudi Arabia
- Dr Juntaro Ashikari, Japan
- Dr Beatriz Dominguez-Gil, Spain
- Prof Riadh Fadhil, Qatar
- A/Prof Marisa Herson, Australia
- Dr Wenshi Jiang, China
- Dr Matthieu Le Dorze, France
- Ms Devi Mey, Italy
- Ms Simona Negrini, Italy
- Dr Sibele Schuantes, Sweden
Volunteer Medical Students
- Ms Victoria Jennings, Australia
- Ms Amy Lundgren, Australia
