Research Bioethics Training in Latin America

描述(由申请人提供)：本建议中描述的研究生物伦理学培训计划(TP)是由规划拨款5 R25 TWO1600-02支持的前一个计划的完整修订。它的目的是制定和实施一项全面的研究和实践经验方案，以回应拉丁美洲研究人员和机构的感知需求以及研究事业的社会人类学影响。它构成了一个具有文化敏感性、以地区为基础的TP，促进了生物医学、行为和流行病学研究中的能力建设、公众意识和伦理决策。它的受众是研究人员、道德委员会成员以及私营和公共机构的官员/政策制定者。 该计划由智利大学跨学科生物伦理学中心和一个拉丁美洲机构联合体(哥伦比亚哈维利亚纳大学、波多黎各大学、秘鲁圣马科斯大学、多米尼加共和国INTEC)提出，并得到北美机构(凯斯西储大学、黑斯廷斯中心和多伦多大学)的支持。因此，成熟的生物伦理思想的例子和经验与不同社会文化背景下的现实生活实践经验相联系。除了理论和历史问题，TP还提供了选择委员会工作、学术研究或政策制定活动作为学员感兴趣的特殊领域的机会，学员将从该地区最合格的专业人员中招聘。泛美卫生组织(泛美卫生组织/世卫组织)在每个国家都有一名代表的广泛网络，以及与泛美卫生组织生物伦理区域方案的密切合作，保证了在其本国挑选和重新安置受训人员将基于对需求、利益和实际需求的公平考虑。本计划书描述了之前成功的合作。该计划将培养一批熟悉研究生物伦理概念和方法的专业人员，能够与其他国家的同行互动，并准备在规划和开展“伦理上可持续”的研究活动中发挥积极作用。该建议的优势在于两个半球的不同机构和泛美卫生组织提供的网络之间的互动，从而将相关的文化背景、学术质量、广泛的覆盖面和现有的长期支持结合在一起。持续的评估和积极的后续行动确保能够监测目标、目的和结果，并及时应对新的挑战。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Training Program (TP) in research bioethics described in this proposal is a complete revision, supported by Planning Grant 5 R25 TWO1600-02, of a previous one. It aims at developing and implementing a comprehensive program of studies and practical experiences responding to perceived needs of Latin American researchers and institutions and to the socioanthropological implications of the research enterprise. It constitutes a culturally-sensitive, regionally-based TP promoting capacity building, public awareness, and ethical decision making in biomedical, behavioral, and epidemiological studies. Its audiences are researchers, ethics committee members and officers/policymakers in private and public institutions. The TP is proposed by the Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics of the University of Chile and a consortium of Latin American institutions (Javeriana University, Colombia; University of Puerto Rico; University of San Marcos, Peru; INTEC, Dominican Republic) and supported by North American ones (Case Western Reserve University, The Hastings Center, and the University of Toronto). The example and experience of mature bioethical thinking is thus linked to real-life, hands-on experience in a different sociocultural context. Along with theoretical and historical issues, the TP provides opportunities for selecting committee work, academic research, or policymaking activities as special areas of interest to trainees, who will be recruited among the best qualified professionals in the Region. The wide network of Representatives of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO), one in each country, and the close collaboration with PAHO Regional Program on Bioethics guarantee that selection and reinsertion of trainees in their home countries will be based on equitable consideration of needs, interests, and actual demand. Previous successful collaboration is described in this proposal. This TP will produce a group of professionals conversant with concepts and methods in research bioethics, capable of interacting with their peers in other countries, and prepared to assume active roles in planning and conducting " ethically sustainable" research activities. The strength of the proposal lies in the interaction between different institutions in both Hemispheres and the network provided by PAHO, thus combining relevant cultural context, academic quality, wide coverage, and long-term support in place. Continuous evaluation and active follow-up ensure that goals, objectives, and results can be monitored and new challenges timely met.