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International Research Ethics Education And Curriculum Development AwardPurposeThe Fogarty International Center (FIC), supports domestic and international educational and research institutions to develop or expand current graduate curricula and training opportunities in international bioethics related to performing research in low- and middle-income nations. Objectives of the Program
For a listing of participants in Research Ethics Training, by region, please select from the drop-down menu: PLEASE NOTE: Trainees are listed in the region of their home countries where their training program is targeted. IV. Program AnnouncementProgram Announcement (RFA-TW-08-002) V. InquiriesPlease direct inquiries about programmatic issues to: Barbara Sina, Ph.D.Program Director VI. Current Programs, Directors, Institutions and DescriptionsR25-TW001603 - International Research Ethics Training Program (2007-2011)Sana Loue, Ph.D., JD, MPH.Case Western Reserve University The training program consists of (1) CWRU-based training of 3 trainees per year from Russia and Romania, who will receive an M.A. degree in Bioethics; (2) the conduct of in-country certificate programs related to research ethics in each country; (3) faculty-student exchanges; (4) participation in the authorship and production of a semi-annual newsletter addressing ethical issues of mutual interest; (5) an internet-based mechanism for exchange. The M.A. degree program consists of required and elective courses, the completion of a M.A. essay, and a re-entry project related to research ethics to be conducted upon the student's return to his or her home country. The program will enable participants to develop or enhance one or more of the following competencies: (1) to participate actively and/or assume a leadership role on an ethical review committee; (2) to teach international research ethics; (3) to understand clinical ethics, how to translate research in to clinical practice, and how clinical practice informs research; (4) to conduct theoretical and/or empirical research in international research ethics; (5) to develop professional networking skills and relationships in the field of research ethics. This training program provides health professionals with the skills necessary to balance ethical concerns with scientific advances to achieve a reasoned approach to the delivery of health care, the conduct of health research with human participants, and the development and implementation of public health programs, such as disease surveillance and prevention. R25-TW007102 - Masters in Bioethics at Aga Khan University (2007-2011)Aasim Ahmad, MBBS, FCPS, MHSc.Aga Khan University Aga Khan University Masters in Bioethics is designed to take into account the impact of social influences, regional culture and Islamic philosophy it also recognizes the influence of Western philosophy on moral discourse. The Grant covers all expenses for twenty students, four of which would be from resource poor countries that fall under the Eastern Mediterranean Region of the World Health Organization. The two years Masters program is comprised of Seven modules: Basic Bioethics, Research Ethics, Clinical Ethics, Bioethics Education, Health Equity, Policy and Ethics, Health & Human Rights and Health Laws & Bioethics and Research Methodology in the first year and in the second year students would be required to develop a research proposal. The faculty includes renowned individuals in Islamic jurisprudence, law, and health policy from Aga Khan University and other institutions. The program would be guided by an Advisory Committee, comprising distinguished bioethicists from western countries, and individuals representing key institutions involved in healthcare and research from within the region and Pakistan. The specific aim is to train core group of key personnel, carefully selected for their potential to have a maximum impact in their respective institutions within Pakistan and Islamic developing countries of the Eastern Mediterranean Region of the World Health Organization. More information can be found at http://www.aku.edu/medicalcollege/programmes/mc-bioethics.shtml R25-TW007075 - International Biomedical Research Ethics Fellowship: Indonesia (2007-2011)Patricia Kuszler, MD, JDUniversity of Washington School of Law This fellowship program provides the opportunity for two or three fellows from Indonesia to engage in a program of study in biomedical clinical and research ethics at the University of Washington with a follow-on mentored project at their home institution in Indonesia. The academic component at the University of Washington is composed of foundational core courses focused on biomedical research ethics complemented by related elective courses. Electives that will speak to the specific cultural, social, and economic challenges they will face when they return to Indonesia and seek to implement research and clinical ethics programs. The project phase of the program will be a mentored application of an educational intervention and/or strategic plan to improve research or clinical ethics practice in Indonesia. Fellows will earn a Graduate Certificate in Research Ethics. The Fellowship Program will be guided by an advisory board, including representatives from the leading research universities in Indonesia. The Fellowship also will work closely with extant Fogarty-funded programs at the University of Washington in developing and implementing the training program. R25-TW1606 - University of Toronto MHSc in Bioethics International Stream (2004-2012)Ross Upshur, MDUniversity of Toronto Four trainees will be carefully selected each year for potential impact in their home country. Building upon the success of the program over the past 8 years (32 graduates as of June 2008), the reach of the program will continue a partnership with WHO, refocus on West Africa and continue to focus on South Asia (extending beyond India and Pakistan to Bangladesh) and South Africa. These trainees will complete the program in two components over 24 months. In the first component (the University of Toronto Component), trainees will complete the course requirements (8 courses) and a research practicum in general bioethics and international research bioethics, and earn their MHSc degree in Bioethics. In the second component (the Home Country Component), trainees will be mentored through the process of integrating their newly-acquired skills into leadership, research, and teaching in the home country. R25-TW001604 - JHU-Fogarty African Bioethics Training Program (2004-2008)Nancy Kass, ScDPhoebe R. Berman Professor of Bioethics and Public Health Three trainees per year will be selected primarily from partner institutions/countries in Sub-Saharan Africa for one year of funded bioethics and research ethics training. The trainees will spend the first six months at Johns Hopkins participating in a challenging program of coursework in bioethics and research methodology, observation of JHMI and JHSPH IRBs, attendance at the Intensive Bioethics Course at Georgetown University, participation as teaching assistants in the JHU summer international ethics course, and joining other students and faculty members for several seminars at Johns Hopkins, OHRP, and NIH. While at JHU, trainees will also have a number of opportunities to interact with trainees from three other Fogarty programs and with graduate students from around the globe. Each trainee will write a 15-20 page practicum proposal during the first six months of training related to independent work in research ethics they will conduct when back in Africa. Trainees also will submit their proposals for IRB review, as appropriate. Trainees will then return to their home countries for an original, mentored, funded six-month practicum either teaching research ethics, building committee or institutional capacity in research ethics, or conducting independent research related to research ethics. For additional information about eligibility, please contact the Program Director and/or Coordinator. R25-TW 7093 - Centrally Coordinated Bioethics Education for India (2004-2008)Nandini K. Kumar, MBBS, DCP, MHScPI/Consultant The Indian council of Medical Research (ICMR) is the central body for formulating, coordinating, and promoting biomedical research in India. The ICMR is working to build capacity in culturally sensitive bioethics education with special emphasis on research ethics related to genetics, drug development (including traditional medicine), social sciences, and international research ethics. The specific objectives of the program are as follows: (1) To develop a working system for program direction through a National Task Force, (2) To develop a centrally coordinated Bioethics network of faculty among ICMR and non-ICMR Institutions to disseminate the curriculum, (3) To develop capacity in bioethics education through a training program based on a uniform national bioethics curriculum, and (4) To develop a system of evaluation to modify the curriculum on an ongoing basis through feedback. R25-TW 7085 - E-Education in Research Ethics: Central and Eastern Europe (2004-2012)Martin Strosberg, PhDCo-Program Director Based on the model of its distance learning Masters in Bioethics Program, Union Graduate College, in partnership with the Department of Medical History and Ethics of Vilnius University (Lithuania), offers a graduate level, combination on-line and on-site Advanced Certificate Program in Research Ethics aimed at training doctors, scientists, academics, lawyers, and administrators from Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries to become research ethicists, advocates for human research subjects protection, and institutional and national leaders in their home countries. Thus far, two cohorts of 13 CEE students have completed or will soon complete the 16-month, 7 courses (4 on-line courses and 3 on-site, short courses given at Vilnius University) certificate program while remaining almost entirely in their home institutions. It is anticipated that two more cohorts of students will matriculate in the program over the next four years. Cohort 3 will start, July, 2009. Other purposes of the Program are to create a virtual infrastructure to support the two cohorts of research ethics students, provide public on-line resources on research ethics for CEE, and develop Vilnius University as a CEE center of excellence in international bioethics and research ethics. In the process, the Program will train and mentor faculty from CEE to continue this on-line program when the grant period is ended. Further information can be found at http://researchethicseurope.com. R25-TW 7098 - Strengthening Bioethics Capacity and Justice in HealthWilfrida Behets, PhD (Contact) & Rennie Stuart, PhDUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill This program will serve its mission to promote responsible research in DRC and in Francophone Africa by consolidating the Center Interdisciplinaire de Bioéthique pour l’Afrique Francophone (CIBAF) at the Kinshasa School of Public Health (KSPH) and by leveraging CIBAF’s resources to enhance ethics capacity locally, regionally and internationally. The University of North Carolina (UNC) and KSPH will strengthen the foundation of CIBAF’s ongoing research, educational, consultation and network-building activities by broadening its current repertoire of research ethics, clinical ethics and public health ethics curricula; integrating ethics modules into a new MPH at KSPH with concentration in public health and bioethics; creating required research ethics modules for all doctorate degrees at KSPH; strengthening CIBAF members skills in grant and manuscript writing, research design methodology and English. To expand ethics capacity regionally, workshops will be held in Brazzaville, Lubumbashi, and Antananarivo (Madagascar) on managing research ethics committees, research and medical ethics for clinicians, research ethics for students, public health ethics, teaching ethics and research integrity. Four fellowships for 6-months of mentored ethics research, social science methodology, IRB training and curriculum development at UNC will be offered to selected trainees. The program will also provide training and support for a new bioethics unit at the Institut Nationale de Sante Publique et Communautaire (INSPC) in Antananarivo. R25-TW 7087 - Training for Scholarships in Research Ethics (2004-2008)Thomas Tomlinson, PhDMichigan State University This joint collaboration between The College of Medicine of the University of Malawi and Michigan State University has two primary goals: (1) To develop an indigenous community of scholars in Malawi and elsewhere in the region who will become active contributors to the literature of international research ethics, speaking to issues which are of particular relevance for Africa and (2) To develop an indigenous curriculum relevant to research ethics which can attract talented African students to an academic career in bioethics. The program will select trainees who occupy responsible university or institutional positions, hold advanced degrees in relevant disciplines, and show promise of scholarly or research potential. Trainees will take advanced level coursework specific to their core discipline and their planned area of research at Michigan State University and in Malawi. Trainees will implement research projects in Malawi, advised by a Malawi-based scholar and (electronically) by a mentor from MSU, and will develop a final research report suitable for publication in a peer-reviewed journal. In consultation with their mentors, trainees will also develop plans for a course related to issues in research ethics that can be offered through the trainee's home institution upon their return. R25-TW 7090 - International Research Bioethics Training Initiative: MENARETI (2004-2008)Henry Silverman, MD, MAUniversity of Maryland The goal of this program is to help enhance institutional research ethics capacity by offering extensive training in international research ethics to academics, researchers, and health professionals from countries in the Middle East and North Africa. Each year we will select eight to ten individuals to enroll in a 12-month Certificate Program. The trainees will spend the first two months at the University of Maryland (Baltimore, USA) taking graduate level courses in ethics and research ethics, observing research ethics committees, and gaining practical experiences in teaching and protocol review. Trainees will then return to their home countries for the following ten months during which time they will a) receive additional training through the use of web-based distance learning technologies and b) perform a mentored, funded activity in research ethics. Examples of such activities include conducting a research project (e.g., survey studies), designing an academic curriculum in research ethics, developing an institutional research ethics committee, or performing a scholarly analysis of a research ethics issue. Support is also available for presentation of abstracts at regional and international conferences. The goal is for trainees to assume leadership roles in education, research, and research ethics committees and contribute to the international dialogue in research ethics. R25 TW007091 West African Bioethics Training Program (2006-2010)Clement AdebamowoDepartment of Surgery This is a comprehensive training program in international research ethics designed to take advantage of the resources at the University of Ibadan, its collaborating institutions including the Dominican Institute, its unique historical role in biomedical, behavioral and social sciences' education and research in Nigeria, its historical linkages with the other universities in Nigeria and throughout West Africa to offer 3 semesters long (18 months, only the first 2 semesters of which are spent at the University) Masters' degree program, 6 weeks long diploma courses, on-site and off-site short certificate and refresher courses to members of ethics committees, biomedical researchers, ethics' committee administrators, and other individuals considered capable of becoming leaders in bioethics in their institutions in Nigeria and other West African countries, including French speaking West African countries. In addition, there are training modules in scientific integrity, good clinical practices (GCP) and good laboratory practices (GLP), grantsmanship, and pedagogy. The program also organizes public lectures and symposia to increase awareness of bioethics in Nigeria and West Africa in general. R25 TW007726 International Public Health Research Ethics Education and Curriculum Development Planning Grant (2006-2008)Benfu LiPeking Univ. Health Sciences Ctr. The chief aim is to develop a graduate level curriculum of public health research ethics, develop public health research ethics training materials, and provide a course of “public health ethics” for undergraduate students from both public health school and medical schools. This is the basic step for the capacity building of public health research and practice ethics. Public health research ethics education and public health research review are two parts closely connected. Based on the translation, editing and case analysis, the textbook of Public health ethics will be the main result, and with the spread of textbook, we can enlarge the public health research and practice ethics education from PUHSC to other universities. The strategies for curriculum development are as following: 1) capacity building for the project team members themselves first—by intensive course provided by US steering members and professors, through a 3-day-intensive courses; 2) provide the test training (relatively more broad topics) through teaching for distance learning school by all team members (the number of trainees is a large number); 3) furtherly, provide test training (relatively narrow topics) for CDC practitioners (the trainees limited to 50, so can better to get feedback). The strategy for public health research ethics review, is to set up the ethical review principles, identify the difference between public health research and clinical new drug development. And provide training of ethics review principles to the trainees selected by different institutions, composed of public health investigators, epidemiologists, health policy researchers, doctors, nurses, and especially the government officers. Such training will be co-designed and held together with Ministry of Health, in order to cover the training in the CDC areas in China as broad as possible. Being a new topic and area, public health ethics is urgently needed, especially after SARS in 2003, but not limited in China, and even rather a global issue. Meanwhile, public health ethics is the ultimate way for government to seek the ethics justification for the healthcare system reform. The experiences with inner reflection of local culture, and with integrity of US and other western countries, can be shared to other Asian countries, by website establishing and by papers publishing. R25 TW001605 A Training Program in Research Ethics in the Americas (2006-2010)Florencia Luna, Program DirectorRuth Macklin: Program Co-director The chief aims of this training program in Latin America are a) to provide in-depth education in research ethics for a cadre of researchers, academics, and health professionals; b) to contribute to capacity building and sustainable programs in research ethics in Latin America; c) to explore pressing issues and unresolved problems related to international research; d) to provide leadership in promoting ethical review of research and expert consultation to researchers and institutions; and e) to foster ongoing collaborations and networking in the Americas. The program will train four long-term trainees each year in a four-month residency at FLACSO, during which the trainees will: participate in a week-long intensive seminar; enroll in other courses at FLACSO that will be required; attend meetings of research ethics committees in private and public hospitals in Buenos Aires; develop a mentored research project and plan its implementation for when they return to their home institutions. The trainees will then spend a six-month period at their home institutions when they will enroll in an advanced level, 16-week distance-learning course. The distance learning course will be open to 20-25 applicants (short- term trainees) in addition to the four long-term trainees. R25 TW001599 South African Ethics Training Initiative (SARETI) (2006-2010)Doug Wassenaar, PhDAssociate Professor SARETI is a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary, Africa-based Masters degree program in health research ethics based on a collaboration between the Universities of KwaZulu-Natal and Pretoria, with input from Johns Hopkins University. We fully sponsor four candidates each year and we accept applications from all Anglophone African countries. Applicants must be academically qualified to enter a masters-level program. The core of this intensive and advanced training program consists of i) 10 months of modular coursework at the partner institutions, ii) practical work with ethics review committees, iii) attendance of an intensive US-based bioethics program through the Johns Hopkins Bioethics Institute, and iv) on return home after year 1, the completion of a dissertation on a topic of relevance to strengthening health research ethics at the trainee's home institution, leading to submission to a peer-reviewed journal. The SARETI Support Program also supports continuous professional education of Africa-based faculty, and supports the top trainees of the training program to attend relevant health research ethics meetings. At the end of the eighth year of the program (2010), SARETI will arrange the second Africa-wide Health Research Ethics Symposium to allow trainees to share their scholarly work and ethics review experiences with their peers, to increase the African impact and networking potentials of the SARETI training program, to facilitate African exchange in health research ethics and to strengthen Africa's voice in this field. R25-TW 6055 - Monash University Master of International Research Bioethics (2002-2006)Bebe Loff, PhD, MA, LLB, BAAssoc/Prof and Head This program offers a Master's degree in International Research Bioethics to developing country academics, researchers, health professionals, and members of non-government organizations from countries in the Asia Pacific (with a special focus on China, Vietnam and Thailand). The Master of International Research Bioethics program will consist of twelve core units that encompass bioethics, research bioethics in an international setting, research methodology in international health, relevant law and practicums. The training, which would ordinarily be completed over a period of eighteen months, is conducted over a period of approximately 10 months between the end of February to December. Trainees undertake a heavily weighted programme and require a strong grasp of English. Ordinarily five candidates are accepted each year. R25 TW00767 Planning Grant for Distance Education Course on Bioethics and International Research Ethics for Brazil (2006-2008)Sergio Rego Co-PI: Palacios, Marisa (Email: palacios@iesc.ufrj.br This planning grant prepared a distance course on international research ethics, in Portuguese, to Brazilian researchers and members of Institutional Ethics Committees and to researchers from other Portuguese spoken countries. The course was developed and we are now seeking for financial support to implement it. We also developed a post graduated program on bioethics and international research ethics (master's and doctorate levels) through partnerships among the public educational institutions in Rio de Janeiro. This program will begin its activities on September 2009. We also created informative support materials for human subjects in research. They are designated to clinical and public health researches. These materials will be available at http://www.ensp.fiocruz.br/etica and at http://www.iesc.ufrj.br on January 2009 for free download. R25-TW6057 - International Research Ethics Networks for Southern Africa (IRENSA) (2006-2010)Solomon Benatar, MDOTUniversity of Cape
Town The International Research Ethics Network for Southern Africa (IRENSA) program offers mid-career professionals the opportunity to obtain a post-graduate diploma in international research ethics by attending three two-week intensive modules over one academic year, with practicum assignments completed at their home institutions. The program based at the University of Cape Town recruits ethic review committee members, scientists, clinicians, academics, government and military regulators, and researchers from the public and private sectors from South Africa and other African countries. The program includes an annual two day seminar for over 100 participants and a new module on global health, public health ethics and public health research ethics. The overall goal of IRENSA is to develop sustainable multidisciplinary expertise in international research ethics and bioethics in Southern Africa. This programme, taught by a multidisciplinary Faculty with national and international reputations in bioethics, is in many ways unique in Africa and is impacting considerably on the ethics of research in Southern Africa, where there has been both exponential increase in the volume of clinical research in developing countries and concern about unethical research, especially in relation to HIV/AIDS. Between 2002-2008, IRENSA has provided research ethics training and skills to 71 mid-career professionals trained to the Diploma level. Diploma students drawn from South Africa and eight other low-income African countries - including Zimbabwe, Zambia, Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Ghana, Malawi, Botswana and Uganda. R25 TW007697 Creating Collaborative Research Ethics Education with Costa RicaElizabeth HeitmanCenter for Biomedical Ethics and Society The Collaborative Research Ethics Education (CREE-Costa Rica) program is a joint endeavor of research ethics educators from Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) and the Costa Rican Hospital Nacional de Niños. It provides education in biomedical research ethics and capacity building in ethical research design, conduct, and review of human participant research for Costa Rica. The program’s interrelated educational and practical training activities include 1) a masters program in clinical research and research ethics at VUMC for early-career Costa Rican investigators; 2) a five-week practicum in research ethics at VUMC for directors and senior members of Costa Rican research ethics review committees; 3) a four-day research ethics symposium in San José for Costa Rican research ethics committee members, investigators, and research administrators; 4) a four-day symposium on teaching research ethics and the responsible conduct of research (RCR) in San José for Costa Rican biomedical educators; and 5) development of curricular materials in Spanish on research ethics and RCR, including professional presentations, publications, and a CREE program website. R25 TW006070- Indiana University-Moi University Academic Research Ethics Partnership (2008-2012)Eric M. Meslin, Ph.D.Indiana University Center for Bioethics The Indiana University-Moi University Academic Research Ethics Partnership (IU-Moi AREP) is a curriculum development and training initiative that builds on longstanding partnerships and collaborations in East Africa. The IU-Moi AREP will develop two Master's degree programs: one at Indiana University/Purdue University in Indianapolis (IUPUI) and one at Moi University in Eldoret, Kenya. These graduate programs will have common and overlapping components, joint advisory committees, shared dissemination plans and harmonized evaluation strategies. Both programs will include a curriculum involving required core courses and electives and a year-long practicum as well as one semester of which will be taken at the counterpart university. Each Master's program will enroll a minimum of three students per year. In addition, each institution will convene annual workshops on Teaching Skills in International Research Ethics to provide training to approximately 20 faculty and students each year. All materials will be collected in training modules that will be distributed as CDs and online with the assistance of the Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI). R25 TW008186 Pan American Bioethics Initiative (2008-2012)Paul Braunschweiger, Ph.D. & Ken Goodman, M.A., Ph.D. (Contact)University of Miami The Pan American Bioethics Initiative (PABI) will enable participants from Latin American and Caribbean countries to foster clinical research integrity and the responsible conduct of research activities at their research institutions. Participants have practical responsibilities for the development and/or oversight of research ethics programs at their respective institutions. This approach to build research integrity and research capacity emphasizes a “Top Down” strategy where decision makers currently involved in research ethics education and policy development are supported to develop or expand ethics programs at their institutions using the collective expertise and resources of the University of Miami Ethics Programs and the Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI), with networking and mentoring provided by the PABI faculty. Seminars and in-country capacity building workshops will be provided in conjunction with the CITI Program’s online resources to provide bioethics education to faculty, staff and students at participating organizations. The CITI Program offers web-based education in human subjects protection, Good Clinical Practice (GCP), lab animal welfare and research integrity. CITI has Spanish and Portuguese libraries of nearly 60 modules presented on a multi-language course site. The program will be sustained by each fellow recruiting a peer at another institution to participate in the PABI program. Participants – more than 20 decision leaders and fellows – come from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Mexico and Peru. R25 TW 6056 Ethics of Research in Latin American Countries. Advanced ProgramFernando Lolas, MDUniversity of Chile, CIEB As a Collaborating Center in Bioethics of the World Health Organization and in close association with the Bioethics Program of the Pan American Health Organization, the Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics (CIEB) of the University of Chile offers a wide spectrum of opportunities for applying skills and concepts in the countries of the Americas and the Caribbean. This hands-on experience is unique in the sense that trainees are exposed to a wide variety of research environments and come into contact with the reality of the countries of this world region. Carefully selected on the basis of previous accomplishments, academic record, and institutional support, up to six trainees each year are exposed to both virtual and face to face learning and training experiences, including a three-month period at the CIEB in Santiago, Chile, and optional stays at other locations. The program implements research ethics training and develops a master level curriculum for Latin American researchers and policymakers in order to improve their competencies for international collaboration and comprises cultural sensitivity training, responsible conduct of research in the psychosocial and biomedical fields, and actual experience at research ethics committees, governmental advisory bodies, and academic institutions. Applicants with different backgrounds are welcomed, and previous trainees have come from the biomedical, the social sciences and the legal professions. It is divided into 4 sections The first section, lasting one month, will consist in preparing the trainees by reading materials and listening to audiovisuals on ethics of research in prepared modules via online. The second section will consist in three months of course work and other activities in Santiago of Chile, with an international faculty. The third section will consist of eight months in the country of origin performing studies of ethical practice in clinical and public research and helping developing home institutions in ethics of research; a tutor from CIEB will be appointed to each trainee to follow up through the research process. Home institutions will be developed along four possible tracks:
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