Research Ethics

All YODA-supported research is reviewed by an institutional or equivalent ethics board before it begins. We follow the Declaration of Helsinki, ICH-GCP, and, where relevant, the recommendations of the Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences (CIOMS).

Patients are people, not datasets. Informed consent, cultural sensitivity, and the right to withdraw are non-negotiable — even in retrospective or waived-consent studies, where we hold ourselves to the same spirit.

We pre-register hypotheses where methodologically appropriate. We publish protocols. We report deviations. We disclose funding sources, sponsors, and the role each played in the study.

All authors, editors, and reviewers disclose financial and non-financial relationships that could influence the work. Disclosures are published with the study and updated when they change. Undisclosed conflicts are grounds for retraction.