International Health Research Ethics Training Program

国际健康研究伦理培训计划

• 批准号: 8664960
• 负责人: Nelson K Sewankambo
• 金额: $ 24.03万
• 依托单位: MAKERERE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-05-01 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8664960
• 关键词: Administrator; Adult; Africa; Africa South of the Sahara; African; Applied Research; Award; Bioethics; Bioethics Consultants; Burundi; Career Choice; Climacteric; Clinical; Collaborations; Communicable Diseases; Consultations; Country; Dentistry; Development; Discipline of Nursing; Disease; Educational process of instructing; Empirical Research; Ensure; Environment; Ethical Issues; Ethics; Europe; Foundations; Goals; Government; Growth; HIV; Health; Health Policy; Health Professional; Health Sciences; Health system; Home environment; Human Resources; Income; Individual; International; Kenya; Knowledge; Leadership; Learning; Left; Master' s Degree; Mentors; North America; Participant; Persons; Pharmacy facility; Policies; Policy Maker; Population; Program Research Project Grants; Provider; Public Health; Rennie; Research; Research Ethics; Research Institute; Research Personnel; Resources; Rwanda; Safety; Science; Services; Social Welfare; Specialist; Students; Tanzania; Time; Training; Training Programs; Tropical Disease; Uganda; United States Public Health Service; Universities; Vision; Work; burden of illness; college; cost; experience; improved; innovation; interest; medical schools; neglect; programs; public health relevance; role model; skills

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Sub Saharan Africa with only 11% of the world's population has more than 24% of the global disease burden, over 70% of the world's HIV infected persons, and only 3% of the global work force, and spends less than 1% of the world financial resources on health. In the case of Uganda, a country of 35 million people who suffer with a heavy disease burden, there are only 7 Ugandan specialists trained at masters level in bioethics. These 7 are part of a group of 9 bioethicists who were all trained in North America and Europe of whom 2 have since left the country for greener pastures after their bioethics training. There is need to start training in Uganda in order to bridge the supply gap. Training within the region will reduce the cost of the program as a result of the increased numbers of individual trained and result in higher retention rates. The project is innovative and proposes a sustainable concurrent three level international ethics training program that includes certificate, diploma and master's degree awards that build a strong foundation for subsequent doctoral training (not part of this proposal) in about ten years' time. The overarching goal of this international research ethics program is to produce a sustainable supply of graduates who will show leadership and significantly contribute to improving standards and practice of research ethics to protect the safety and welfare of research participants in Uganda and the wider sub-Saharan Africa region. This will be done by developing: (1) Graduates capable of providing leadership in international research ethics and apply it effectively in teaching and mentoring individuals to participate in health research, manage research projects/ programs and also offer bioethics services consultations and policy advice. (2) Individuals who can undertake empirical and applied research on challenging ethical issues. And (3) Practitioners and researchers who can effectively provide consultation services and policy advise in international research ethics. This will be done using various ethics related courses whose delivery is guided by the use principles of adult learning and other features of the program aimed at ensuring the transfer of knowledge gained by the trainee to their home institutional environment. This is expected to contribute to strengthening improvements in research ethics capacity in Uganda and in the region to sustain high quality of international research ethics. Working with the relevant government departments like ministries of Public Service and of Health we will ensure that a career path for graduates of the program is well defined in Uganda and this may thus become a role model for other African countries. The 91 year old Makerere University with a student population of nearly 40,000 is by far the oldest and largest university in Uganda and is one of the most research intensive universities in Sub-Saharan Africa, ranked among the top 10 universities on the continent. The College of Health Sciences has four large schools of Medicine, Public Health, Biomedical Sciences and Health Sciences that include the Departments of Nursing, Pharmacy and Dentistry. The university has a large and rapidly expanding health research enterprise due to the many international research collaborations the college has. The East African regional block of countries (Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Burundi) have contributed to ground breaking research that has impacted policy and practice changes internationally particularly on communicable diseases including neglected tropical diseases, but also increasingly on non-communicable diseases, health systems and other health challenges. The Makerere University's vision is to become a research driven university and serve as a recognized regional and reference center of first choice for advice on ethical challenges, research on international ethics regarding priority challenges and for development of bioethics research capacity.

描述（由申请人提供）：世界人口中只有11％的撒哈拉以上非洲拥有超过全球疾病负担的24％以上，超过70％的世界艾滋病毒感染者，只占全球劳动力的3％，而全球金融资源不到1％。就乌干达而言，一个有3500万人遭受沉重疾病负担的国家，只有7名乌干达专家在硕士学位接受生物伦理学培训。这7名是一组由9名生物伦理学家组成的一部分，他们在北美和欧洲都接受过培训，其中2个自那以后在其生物伦理学培训后离开该国从事绿色牧场。为了弥合供应差距，需要开始在乌干达进行培训。由于个人训练的数量增加并导致较高的保留率，该地区内部的培训将降低该计划的成本。该项目具有创新性，并提出了一项可持续的三级国际道德培训计划，其中包括证书， 文凭和硕士学位奖项为在大约十年的时间内为随后的博士培训（不是本提案的一部分）奠定了坚实的基础。这项国际研究伦理计划的总体目标是提供可持续的毕业生供应，这些毕业生将展示领导能力，并为改善研究伦理的标准和实践做出重大贡献，以保护乌干达和更广泛的撒哈拉以南非洲地区的研究参与者的安全和福利。这将通过开发：（1）能够在国际研究伦理方面提供领导能力的毕业生，并有效地将其应用于教学和指导个人参与健康研究，管理研究项目/计划以及提供生物伦理学服务咨询和政策建议。 （2）可以就具有挑战性的道德问题进行经验和应用研究的个人。 （3）可以有效地提供国际研究伦理学咨询服务和政策建议的从业者和研究人员。这将使用各种与道德相关的课程来完成，这些课程以成人学习的使用原则和计划的其他特征为指导，旨在确保受训者获得的知识转移到其家庭机构环境中。预计这将有助于加强乌干达和该地区的研究伦理能力的提高，以维持国际研究伦理的高质量。与相关政府部门（如公共服务部和健康部）合作，我们将确保该计划的毕业生的职业道路在乌干达有很好的定义，因此这可能成为其他非洲国家的榜样。到目前为止，拥有近40,000名学生人口的91岁马克雷雷大学是乌干达最古老，最大的大学，是撒哈拉以南非洲地区最研究的强化大学之一，在非洲大陆上排名前十的大学之一。卫生科学学院拥有四所大型医学，公共卫生，生物医学科学和健康科学，包括护理，药学和牙科部门。由于学院的许多国际研究合作，该大学拥有大量且迅速扩大的健康研究企业。东非地区街区（肯尼亚，卢旺达，坦桑尼亚，乌干达和布隆迪）为扎根研究做出了贡献，该研究影响了国际上的政策和实践变化，尤其是在包括被忽视的热带疾病在内的传染病上的变化，但也越来越多地对非社交性疾病，卫生系统，卫生系统和其他健康挑战。 Makerere大学的愿景是成为一所研究驱动的大学，并成为公认的有关道德挑战的建议的区域和参考中心，有关优先挑战的国际伦理学研究以及对生物伦理​​学研究能力的发展。