Strengthening Bioethics Capacity and Justice in Health

加强健康领域的生物伦理能力和正义

• 批准号: 6948515
• 负责人: WILFRIDA M BEHETS
• 金额: $ 25万
• 依托单位: UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-09-08 至 2008-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6948515
• 关键词: Africa; African; Europe; Internet; behavioral /social science research tag; computer system design /evaluation; curriculum; educational resource design /development; ethics; health care personnel; human rights; informed consent; international cooperation; postgraduate education; public health; publications; science education; training; workshop

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Human subjects research in environments of scarcity and inequality requires context-sensitive ethics that incorporates basic transcultural values and promotes social change. We propose to build bioethical training and research capacity at the Kinshasa School of Public Health (KSPH), Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) through expansion of its partnerships with the University of North Carolina (UNC), and the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium (UCL). Four Congolese scholars will complete a one-year intensive postgraduate, master-level training program in Bioethics at UCL, and 5 months of mentored bioethics research development, curriculum building, and IRB training at UNC. Upon return to DRC, scholars at the new KSPH Center of Bioethics (CB), will reinforce local IRB capacity; perform innovative and socially relevant independent bioethics research; develop a two-week bioethics module integrated into the MPH program at KSPH; establish a bioethics documentation and consultation service; create original pedagogical material focusing on developing world bioethical issues; design a bioethics website and develop e-learning capacities, and in the fourth year, offer a 2-week intensive course in bioethics for scholars from throughout Francophone Africa. The diverse activities at the new KSPH Center of Bioethics will serve its mission to promote responsible biomedical research and clinical practice in DRC and in francophone Africa. The CB will encourage reflection on the meaning of autonomy in circumstances of poverty and injustice; co-responsibility between communities, research institutions and vulnerable subjects; creative, culturally resonant solutions to ethical conflicts raised by biomedical research; recognition of the importance and limits of procedural informed consent, and the need for 'negotiated consent' embodying mutual respect between researcher and subject. The CB is critical to deal responsibly with public health problems rooted in local and global injustice, and can contribute to social change and the establishment of a new human rights culture.

描述（由申请人提供）：在稀缺和不平等的环境中进行人类受试者研究需要结合基本的跨文化价值观并促进社会变革的情境敏感伦理。我们建议通过扩大与北卡罗来纳大学 (UNC) 和比利时鲁汶天主教大学的合作伙伴关系，在刚果民主共和国 (DRC) 金沙萨公共卫生学院 (KSPH) 建立生物伦理培训和研究能力（伦敦大学学院）。四名刚果学者将在伦敦大学学院完成为期一年的生物伦理学强化研究生、硕士级培训课程，并在北卡罗来纳大学完成为期 5 个月的指导生物伦理学研究开发、课程建设和 IRB 培训。返回刚果民主共和国后，新的 KSPH 生物伦理学中心 (CB) 的学者将加强当地 IRB 的能力；进行创新且与社会相关的独立生物伦理学研究；开发一个为期两周的生物伦理学模块，并将其纳入 KSPH 的 MPH 项目；建立生物伦理学文件和咨询服务；创建专注于发展中国家生物伦理问题的原创教学材料；设计一个生物伦理学网站并发展电子学习能力，并在第四年为来自非洲法语国家的学者提供为期两周的生物伦理学强化课程。新的 KSPH 生物伦理中心的多样化活动将履行其使命，促进刚果民主共和国和非洲法语国家负责任的生物医学研究和临床实践。 CB 将鼓励反思贫困和不公正情况下自治的含义；社区、研究机构和弱势群体之间的共同责任；针对生物医学研究引发的伦理冲突提供创造性的、文化上共鸣的解决方案；认识到程序知情同意的重要性和局限性，以及体现研究人员和受试者之间相互尊重的“协商同意”的必要性。 CB 对于负责任地解决源于当地和全球不公正的公共卫生问题至关重要，并且可以为社会变革和建立新的人权文化做出贡献。