Duty of Care: Protecting Researchers Abroad

摘要

The tragic death of a university of California-Los Angeles research assistant in 2008, and the civil and criminal legal proceedings that followed (1), appropriately focused attention on the dangerous working condi- tions faced by junior lab researchers. However, there may be a greater danger facing international researchers: preventable accidents or illnesses when traveling outside their home country, especially to developing regions (for example, sustaining injuries while traveling on rugged roads or contracting malaria while conducting field work in Africa).