A Training Program in Research Ethics in the Americas

描述（由申请人提供）：这个教育项目是一个国际研究伦理培训计划的延续，该计划于2000年开始，由福格蒂国际中心提供为期两年的资助。该计划的主任是露丝麦克林博士，纽约爱因斯坦医学院生物伦理学教授。该项目的联合主任是弗洛伦西亚卢娜博士，来自阿根廷布宜诺斯艾利斯的生物伦理学家作为一个充分合作的努力，涉及教师和客座讲师从工业化国家和发展中国家，该计划被设计为一个为期四年的努力，每年有四名学员，谁将花八个月在布宜诺斯艾利斯。该方案的目标是：a）为拉丁美洲的学术和卫生专业人员提供深入的研究伦理教育; B）促进拉丁美洲研究伦理方面的能力建设; c）探讨与国际合作研究有关的紧迫问题和未解决的问题; d）促进美洲正在进行的合作。 培训计划有三个主要内容：1）必修和选修课程; 2）接触研究伦理委员会; 3）由Macklin和Luna博士指导的两个单独项目。第一个项目将是一个研究项目，专门研究与受训人员专业领域有关的研究道德的特定方面，第二个项目将是一个详细的计划，说明他们返回本国机构后将如何实施他们所学到的知识。该计划将有一个咨询委员会，由来自拉丁美洲几个国家的生物伦理学和领先的生物医学和社会科学研究人员的著名国际学者组成。客座讲师和导师将包括来自美国的国际知名生物伦理学家和研究人员，墨西哥，智利和巴西，该计划的一个中心特点是一个新设计的，为期两周的国际研究伦理课程，突出了最近在这一领域的争议。将建立机制，使参加过这一培训方案的受训者之间不断进行交流。随后将发展一个更广泛的网络，以便在美洲参与合作研究的人员之间进行交流。在征求咨询委员会和已完成方案的受训人员的建议后，将利用各种渠道宣传该网络。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This educational project is a renewal of a Training Program in international research ethics, begun in 2000 under a two-year grant from the Fogarty International Center. The Director of the program is Ruth Macklin, Ph.D., Professor of Bioethics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. The program co-director is Florencia Luna, Ph.D., a bioethicist from Buenos Aires, Argentina. As a fully collaborative effort involving faculty and guest lecturers from industrialized and developing countries, the program is designed as a four-year effort, with four trainees in each year, who will spend eight months in Buenos Aires. The program's aims are a) to provide in-depth education in research ethics for a cadre of Latin American academics and health professionals; b) to contribute to capacity building in research ethics in Latin America; c) to explore pressing issues and unresolved problems related to international collaborative research; and d) to foster ongoing collaborations in the Americas. The training program has three main elements: 1) Required and elective courses; 2) Exposure to research ethics committees; and 3) Two individual projects mentored by Drs. Macklin and Luna. The first will be a research project devoted to a particular aspect of research ethics relevant to the trainees' area of expertise, and the second will be a detailed plan describing how they will implement what they have learned when they return to their home institution. The program will have an Advisory Committee comprising prominent international scholars in bioethics and leading biomedical and social science researchers from several countries in Latin America. Guest lecturers and preceptors will include internationally renowned bioethicists and researchers from the U.S., Mexico, Chile, and Brazil, A central feature of the program is a newly designed, two-week course in international research ethics, highlighting recent controversies in this field. Mechanisms will be established for ongoing communication among trainees who have participated in this training program. This will be followed by development of a broader network for communication among people involved in collaborative research in the Americas. The network will be publicized using a wide array of channels, after seeking suggestions from the Advisory Committee as well as from trainees who have completed the program.