West African Bioethics Training Program

描述（由申请人提供）：近几十年来，对发展中国家的研究和计划资助有所增加。这一增长突出了这些国家有限的保健基础设施和人员限制。其中一个限制是缺乏生物伦理学专门知识。几项研究和计划都因此搁浅。此外，越来越多的临床试验外包给发展中国家，一些复杂的研究也正在发展中国家进行。由于人类起源的“走出非洲”理论，非洲也对遗传学研究感兴趣。此外，正在开发可能改善这些国家公共卫生的新生物技术。所有这些都发生在人们越来越意识到科学家的日常道德不端行为比重大道德丑闻对科学的威胁更大的时候。我们的需求评估调查显示，尼日利亚的生物医学研究人员对伦理问题知之甚少，包括延迟、无法获得和资金限制在内的几个问题困扰着该国少数几个功能性IRB。答复者还强调需要对IRB人员进行培训。基于这些，我们提出了一个全面的国际研究伦理培训计划，旨在利用伊巴丹大学的资源，其独特的历史作用，在生物医学教育和研究在尼日利亚和其历史联系与西非研究生医学院。该培训补助金将提供硕士学位课程，以培养生物伦理学专家，并为IRB成员、对生物伦理学感兴趣的人员、生物医学研究人员、IRB管理人员和尼日利亚其他西非国家的研究人员提供国际研究伦理学培训。它还将提供科学诚信方面的培训，以加强为科学家创造符合伦理的工作环境，并提高西非对生物伦理的普遍认识。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In recent decades, there has been an increase in research and program funding to developing countries. This increase has highlighted the limited health care infrastructure and personnel limitations in these countries. One of such limitations is lack of bioethics expertise. Several studies and programs have run aground on this account. There is also growing outsourcing of clinical trials to developing countries and some sophisticated research are now occurring there. Because of the "Out of Africa" theory of human origin, Africa also holds interest for research in genetics. In addition, new biotechnologies are being developed that are likely to improve public health in these countries. All of these are occurring at a time when it is increasingly realized that routine ethical misbehavior among scientists is a greater threat to science than major ethics scandals. Our needs assessment survey showed poor knowledge of ethical issues among biomedical researchers in Nigeria and several problems including delay, inaccessibility and funding limitations plagued the few functional IRBs in the country. Respondents also emphasized the need for training for IRB personnel. Based on these, we propose a comprehensive training program in international research ethics designed to take advantage of the resources at the University of Ibadan, its unique historical role in biomedical education and research in Nigeria and its historical linkages with the West African Postgraduate Medical Colleges. This training grant will offer Masters' degree program leading to development of bioethics experts and provide training in international research ethics for members of IRBs, persons interested in Bioethics, biomedical researchers, IRB administrators, and research staff in Nigeria other West African countries. It will also offer training in scientific integrity in order to enhance the creation of ethical working environment for scientists and increase awareness of bioethics in general in West Africa.