Establishing an MSc in Global Health Ethics at the University of Cape Town

在开普敦大学设立全球健康伦理学硕士学位

• 批准号: 10594501
• 负责人: Jantina De Vries
• 金额: $ 21.23万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-04-01 至 2027-03-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10594501
• 关键词: Accreditation; Africa; African; Area; Award; Bioethics; Businesses; Child; Continuing Education; Course Content; Data; Development; Discipline; Educational Curriculum; Educational process of instructing; Ensure; Environment; Ethics; Evaluation; Event; Faculty; Fees; Funding; Future; Genomics; Graduate Degree; Health; Health Sciences; Health Technology; Humanities; Income; Individual; International; Knowledge; Marketing; Measures; Medical Research; Mentorship; Monitor; Neurosciences; Ontology; Outcome; Persons; Political Factor; Program Sustainability; Research; Research Ethics; Resources; Scholarship; Schools; Shapes; Special Event; Stream; Students; Teacher Professional Development; Thinking; Time; Training; Training Programs; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; Vision; Work; design; experience; frontier; gateway course; global health; graduate student; health science research; improved; newspaper article; open data; podcast; programs; responsible research conduct; social factors

Project Summary In this project, we propose to establish a two-year MSc in Global Health Ethics degree at the University of Cape Town Faculty of Health Sciences (UCT FHS), as well as to formalize the research ethics training curriculum at that Faculty. Through a focus on decolonization of ethics scholarship and from the perspective of the African humanities, we propose to revolutionise ethics teaching in African health research by foregrounding African experiences, needs and worldviews to equip our students to interrogate health research ethics drawing on the latest thinking in the African humanities anchored into the need to decolonise global health and global health ethics. Through the programme we sensitise our students the historical, social and political factors that influence the shape and organisation of global health research, and the manifestation of particular ethical challenges in it. We will combine foundational courses in African humanities with advanced courses in six domains of frontier scientific research taking place in Africa – namely AI, Neuroscience, Genomics, Humanitarian Research, Research in Children, and Open Science. The aim is to graduate students that are able to critically engage with these frontier scientific developments in a way that reflects the ontologies, experiences and needs of Africans. Over the course of this program, we will graduate at least 15 MSc students, 6 of whom will be fully funded and 9 of whom will be partly funded by program resources. We will also make available some of our course content as short courses. Over the course of the program, we will offer 16 short research ethics courses to a minimum of 320 individuals. We will also conduct a meticulous assessment of current ad hoc ethics training initiatives in the UCT FHS, analyze support needs and monitor the quality of ongoing efforts. Drawing on the results of this assessment, we will design and implement a formalized curriculum for research ethics training in the FHS which will include extensive mentorship for those currently offering ethics training across the FHS departments and divisions. Finally we will work to increase the visibility of ethics in the FHS and show UCT FHS staff and students that ethics is exciting and relevant to the plethora of medical research ongoing in the FHS. We will do so by organizing regular events in the FHS that speak to a topic in research ethics, ranging from regular discussion forums drawing on popular forms of media (such as podcasts, videos or newspaper articles) to introduce people to pertinent topics in ethics, to more formal monthly presentations, ‘ask anything’ ethics quickfix events and special events with diverse guest speakers from anywhere in the world. Participation in this enrichment program will be mandatory for our MSc trainees.

项目概要 在该项目中，我们建议在该大学设立为期两年的全球健康伦理学硕士学位 开普敦大学健康科学学院 (UCT FHS)，以及将 通过关注道德的非殖民化，研究该学院的道德培训课程。 从学术和非洲人文学科的角度，我们建议对伦理进行革命 通过突出非洲的经验、需求和世界观来教授非洲卫生研究 让我们的学生能够利用最新的思想来质疑健康研究伦理 非洲人文植根于全球健康非殖民化和全球健康伦理的需要。 通过该项目，我们让学生了解历史、社会和政治因素 影响全球健康研究的形式和组织，以及特定的表现 我们将把非洲人文基础课程与高级课程结合起来。 在非洲开展的六个前沿科学研究领域的课程——即人工智能、 神经科学、基因组学、人道主义研究、儿童研究和开放科学。 目的是培养能够批判性地参与这些前沿科学的研究生 的发展反映了非洲人的本体论、经验和需求。 在这个项目的课程中，我们将毕业至少15名硕士生，其中6人将获得全额资助 其中 9 名将由计划资源提供部分资助。 我们的课程内容为短期课程 在整个课程中，我们将提供 16 门短期课程。 至少 320 人参加研究伦理课程。 我们还将对当前的临时道德培训计划进行细致的评估 UCT FHS，分析支持需求并监控正在进行的工作的质量。 根据评估结果，我们将设计并实施正式的研究课程 FHS 的道德培训，其中包括对目前提供培训的人员进行广泛的指导 最后，我们将努力提高 FHS 各部门和部门的道德培训。 道德规范在 FHS 中的可见度，并向 UCT FHS 员工和学生展示道德规范是令人兴奋和 与 FHS 正在进行的大量医学研究相关，我们将通过组织来做到这一点。 FHS 中涉及研究伦理主题的定期活动，包括定期讨论 利用流行媒体形式（例如播客、视频或报纸文章）的论坛 向人们介绍道德方面的相关主题、更正式的每月演示、“问任何问题” 来自世界各地的不同嘉宾演讲者参加的道德快速修复活动和特别活动。 我们的理学硕士学员必须参加该强化计划。