International Health Research Ethics Training Program

国际健康研究伦理培训计划

• 批准号: 9187859
• 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/9187859
• 关键词: Administrator; Adult; Africa; Africa South of the Sahara; African; Applied Research; Award; Bioethics; Bioethics Consultants; Burundi; Career Choice; Certification; Climacteric; Clinical; Collaborations; Communicable Diseases; Consultations; Country; Dentistry; Development; Discipline of Nursing; 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; Nurses; Participant; Persons; Pharmacy facility; Policies; Policy Maker; Population; Privatization; 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; Uganda; United States Public Health Service; Universities; Vision; Work; burden of illness; college; cost; experience; improved; innovation; interest; international partnership; low and middle-income countries; medical schools; neglected tropical diseases; programs; public health relevance; retention rate; 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）：撒哈拉以南非洲地区人口仅占世界人口的 11%，但其疾病负担却占全球的 24% 以上，艾滋病毒感染者占全球的 70% 以上，劳动力仅占全球的 3%，并且在卫生方面的支出不到世界财政资源的 1%。就乌干达而言，这个拥有3500万人口、承受着沉重疾病负担的国家，只有7名接受过生物伦理学硕士学位培训的乌干达专家。这 7 人是由 9 名生物伦理学家组成的小组的一部分，他们都在北美和欧洲接受过培训，其中 2 人在接受生物伦理学培训后离开该国前往更好的地方。有必要在乌干达开始培训，以弥补供应缺口。由于受训人数增加，该地区内的培训将降低计划成本，并提高保留率。该项目具有创新性，提出了可持续的并行三级国际道德培训计划，包括证书、 文凭和硕士学位授予，为大约十年后的后续博士培训（不属于本提案的一部分）奠定坚实的基础。该国际研究伦理计划的总体目标是培养可持续的毕业生，他们将表现出领导力，并为提高研究伦理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研究参与者的安全和福利地区。这将通过培养：（1）毕业生能够在国际研究伦理方面发挥领导作用，并将其有效地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服务咨询和政策建议。 (2) 能够对具有挑战性的伦理问题进行实证和应用研究的个人。 （三）能够有效提供国际研究伦理咨询服务和政策建议的从业者和研究人员。这将通过各种与道德相关的课程来完成，这些课程的授课以成人学习的使用原则和该计划的其他特征为指导，旨在确保学员将获得的知识转移到他们的家庭机构环境中。预计这将有助于加强乌干达和该地区研究伦理能力的提高，以维持高质量的国际研究伦理。我们将与公共服务部和卫生部等相关政府部门合作，确保乌干达明确界定该项目毕业生的职业道路，从而可能成为其他非洲国家的榜样。有着91年历史的麦克雷雷大学拥有近4万名学生，是迄今为止乌干达历史最悠久、规模最大的大学，也是撒哈拉以南非洲地区研究最密集的大学之一，位列非洲大陆前10名大学之列。健康科学学院设有医学、公共卫生、生物医学科学和健康科学四个大学院，其中包括护理系、药学系和牙科系。由于学院开展了许多国际研究合作，该大学拥有一个大型且快速扩张的健康研究企业。东非区域国家集团（肯尼亚、卢旺达、坦桑尼亚、乌干达和布隆迪）为突破性研究做出了贡献，这些研究影响了国际政策和实践的变化，特别是在包括被忽视的热带病在内的传染病方面，但也越来越多地涉及非传染性疾病，卫生系统和其他卫生挑战。麦克雷雷大学的愿景是成为一所研究驱动型大学，并成为公认的首选区域和参考中心，提供有关伦理挑战的建议、有关优先挑战的国际伦理研究以及发展生物伦理研究能力。