These slides outline the plan for a symposium held at the 21st World Conference on Health Promotion in August 2013. They provide the rationale, scope and aims of the symposium on ethical dilemmas in health promotion research. The slides identify the symposium's panellists and the case studies presented in the symposium.

1. Case studies on ethical dilemmas in
health promotion research
IUHPE 21st World Conference on Health Promotion
Tuesday, August 27, 2013
11h00 – 12h30
Hall C2

2. Plan for the symposium
1. Welcome & introduction by the moderator
2. Presentations of 3 cases of ethical dilemmas met by
researchers in health promotion
Case 1: From research on obesity prevention
Case 2: From research on environments and spatial areas
Case 3: From health promotion evaluation research
3. Discussant’s view of the common themes across cases and
suggested resources for tackling ethical challenges
4. Moderated discussion between the panel and participants
5. Summary of salient points and wrap-up by the moderator

3. Scope and Rationale for Symposium
While the cases propose examples from research done in Canada, the symposium was
prepared with an approach to underline the relevance of these questions for health
promotion researchers globally.
The symposium is based on the idea that health promotion researchers must reflect on
their actions throughout the research process. Thinking about ethical dilemmas that
health promotion researchers encounter or produce is one way for researchers to
participate in the recursive relationship that links research, practice and policy.
• Health promotion researchers have a responsibility to address ethical questions
throughout the research process.
• This is directly linked to health promotion’s mission as defined in the Ottawa
Charter and its use of action strategies to stimulate social change, which may
sometimes lead to intervening directly in the lives of individuals and populations.
• This responsibility is inseparable from the normative character of the field of health
promotion and the values to which professionals who work in the field adhere.

4. Symposium Objectives
This symposium aims to :
- Increase awareness among health promotion
researchers of the ethical issues they may
encounter or produce while doing research in
health promotion,
- Raise questions that these dilemmas pose and
reflect on them, and
- Engage in a dialogue between ethicists and
health promotion researchers about these
challenges.

5. Symposium Panellists
• Moderator: Dr. John Frank
• Case 1: Laura Pryor
▫ Childhood Obesity Prevention Research: Stigma
and Unintended Consequences
• Case 2: Martine Shareck
▫ Labelling environments in health promotion
research
• Case 3: Marie-Claude Tremblay
▫ Ethics in health promotion evaluation research
• Discussant: Prof. Daniel Weinstock

6. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Symposium organisers: Catherine M. Jones & Martine Shareck
This symposium has received support from:
Direction des relations internationales
The symposium’s organisers and presenters would like to recognise
the valuable comments and contributions to this work received
from the participants of the Health Promotion Research Seminar
at the Université de Montréal, as well as Prof. Bryn Williams-
Jones and Marie-Josée Potvin from the Axe éthique et santé des
populations (RRSPQ).