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 will be available for review and feedback throughout October 2025. We encourage all individuals and organisations 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 organised 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 will be available in Arabic, English, Brazilian (Portuguese), Chinese, French, 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.

To participate in the consultation (and access the feedback survey), please click here: SURVEY

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
• Pacifico Calderon, Philippines
• Elena Cavazzoni, Australia
• Jessie Cooper, United Kingdom
• Celeste De Vaal, South Africa
• Beatriz Dominguez-Gil, Spain
• Claire Gordon, Australia
• Rosalie Grivell, Australia
• Dan Harvey, United Kingdom
• Marisa Herson, Australia
• Alison Hodak, Australia
• Georgina Irish, Australia
• Wenshi Jiang, China
• Heather Machin, Australia
• Francisco Martinez, Mexico
• Maria Victoria Martinez Lopez, Spain
• Monica Mathor, Brazil
• Roli Mathur, India
• Sumytra Menon, Singapore
• Olivia Ngan, Hong Kong
• Jeff Orlowski, USA
• Brendan Parent, USA
• Rebecca Pentz, USA
• Alicia Perez-Blanco, Spain
• Farrah Raza, United Kingdom
• Rizmina Rilwan, Sri Lanka
• Sharon Santon, South Africa
• Sibele Schuantes, Sweden
• David Thomson, South Africa
• Sandra Venter, South Africa
• Matt Weiss, Canada
• Matthew Wellberry-Smith, United Kingdom
• Wai Tat Wong, Hong Kong

Translations

A special thank you 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!

• Ahmed Akl, Saudi Arabia
• Beatriz Dominguez-Gil, Spain
• Riadh Fadhil, Qatar
• Marisa Herson, Australia
• Wenshi Jiang, China
• Matthieu Le Dorze, France
• Devi Mey, Italy
• Simona Negrini, Italy
• Sibele Schuantes, Sweden

Volunteer Medical Students

• Victoria Jennings, Australia
• Amy Lundgren, Australia