UMB-IRB and Nigerian NHREC Collaborative Capacity Building Initiative

描述(由申请者提供)：马里兰大学巴尔的摩学院审查委员会-尼日利亚国家卫生研究伦理委员会(NHREC)合作能力建设倡议(UMBINN)是一个旨在提高两个伦理审查委员会有效率和有效地监督联合研究项目的能力的计划。通过举办培训讲习班、政策制定研讨会、短期实习以及在尼日利亚将电子研究方案登记、审查和跟踪系统从尼日利亚的UMB-IRB部署到国家人权委员会，这两个伦理委员会将更好地了解各自国家进行伦理审查的伦理、文化、政治和宗教环境。这项培训活动为促进网络电子研究伦理管理系统的技术转让奠定了基础，该系统将加强国际合作和国家人权委员会在尼日利亚建设国家伦理能力的能力。该提案利用了大型艾滋病毒/艾滋病方案、相关研究和公共卫生评估以及人类病毒学研究所的基础设施，并侧重于艾滋病毒/艾滋病感染者的研究。 公共卫生相关性：该项目旨在加强对在尼日利亚进行的研究的伦理监督，由马里兰大学机构审查委员会和尼日利亚国家卫生研究伦理委员会联合监督。它还为尼日利亚委员会采用电子IRB系统奠定了基础

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of Maryland Baltimore Institutional Review Board - National Health Research Ethics Committee of Nigeria (NHREC) Collaborative Capacity Building Initiative (UMBINN) is a program designed to enhance the capacity of the two ethics review committee to efficiently and effectively supervise joint research projects. Through training workshops, policy development seminars, short term internships and deployment of electronic research protocol registration, review and tracking system from UMB-IRB to NHREC in Nigeria, the two ethics committees will gain improved knowledge of the ethical, cultural, political and religious environment in which ethics review occurs in their countries. This training activity lays the foundation for promoting technology transfer of a web-based electronic research ethic management system that will strengthen international collaboration and the capacity of NHREC to build national ethics capacity in Nigeria. The proposal takes advantage of the large HIV/AIDS program and associated research and public health evaluations as well as the infrastructure of the Institute of Human Virology and focuses on research among people living with HIV/AIDS PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: This project is designed to strengthen the ethical oversight of research conducted in Nigeria and jointly supervised by the University of Maryland Institutional Review Board and the National Health Research Ethics Committee of Nigeria. It also lays the foundation for the introduction of electronic IRB system for the Nigerian Committee