Johns Hopkins-Fogarty African Bioethics Training Program

约翰·霍普金斯-福格蒂非洲生物伦理学培训计划

• 批准号: 8327354
• 负责人: NANCY E KASS
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-09-30 至 2012-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8327354
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The Johns Hopkins Fogarty African Bioethics Training Program (FABTP) has provided one-year graduate training in research ethics to 23 African researchers, Research Ethics Committee (REC) staff, and government officials since 2001 with 3 additional trainees selected for 2008. Funding is requested for 12 more African one-year trainees 2009-2012. FABTP trainees spend 6 months at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and JHU Berman Institute of Bioethics, completing a rigorous program of research ethics, bioethics, and methods courses, IRB observations, a weekly FABTP seminar, ongoing ethics seminars at JHU and the NIH, and regular meetings with JHU mentors. This ensures training in the FABTP four core competencies: 1. theory and principles; 2. training in research ethics; 3. research ethics committees; and 4. empirical research on research ethics. Each trainee writes a 20-25 page practicum proposal while at JHU including objectives, literature, methods, budget, and timeline. Trainees complete an original, funded practicum in research ethics in home countries during the last 6 months, with mentoring and regular "check ins" from JHU and African faculty. The FABTP also organizes and staffs a one-month research ethics program in June, cost-shared with other Fogarty programs who send trainees to JHU for intensive courses, seminars, and visits to OHRP, NIH, and FDA and interactions with our trainees. Before the program, only 1 FABTP one-year trainee had published in bioethics. Evaluations now show 2001-2007 cohorts have published 60 ethics articles, worked on 48 empirical ethics projects, taught in 39 ethics courses, given 72 ethics presentations, started two new research ethics committees, sat on 15 RECs, and attended 138 ethics workshops. Trainees and faculty collaborated on a widely cited paper on African RECs that showed the range of history and capacity of African RECs as well as the tremendous impact these individual trainees have made with capacity development for ethics review in their home institutions. FABTP participation laid the foundation for 7 of our 23 trainees to go on to advanced degree programs in bioethics. Our goal is long term. We recognize that professional development depends on regular project guidance, connecting colleagues to multiple professional opportunities, regular communication and community building through emails, a newsletter, the FABTP reunion and various "mini-reunions", and continuing such support and mentoring long after trainees return to Africa. If funded, we will continue to provide rigorous and practical training in research ethics to extraordinary African professionals, facilitate the completion of innovative and locally valuable practicum work in trainees' home institutions, devote resources to community building for bioethics in Africa through collaborations with other Fogarty programs, AMANET, and ongoing connections with our alumni, and continue to rigorously evaluate our program to ensure we provide the best quality research ethics training possible. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: As more and more health projects occur in low income countries, and particularly in Africa, it is critical for professionals from the local environment to have sophisticated, in-depth training in the ethics of research with humans. Research is a critical tool for improving the health of populations; and yet research will not be successful - and ought not be - if conducted in ways that are unduly harmful, are disrespectful, or are exploitive. It is only through the in-depth training of a cadre of intelligent, accomplished African professionals in research ethics that quality local oversight, critique, and collaboration on the ethics of health projects can occur. This training program has existed since 2001 training African professionals who now have taken on extraordinary leadership positions in research ethics in Africa and now are training others to do the same.

约翰霍普金斯大学福格蒂非洲生物伦理培训项目（FABTP）自2001年以来为23名非洲研究人员、研究伦理委员会（REC）工作人员和政府官员提供了为期一年的研究伦理研究生培训，2008年还选出了另外3名学员。要求为2009-2012年另外12名非洲一年制受训人员提供资金。FABTP学员将在约翰霍普金斯大学公共卫生学院和JHU伯曼生物伦理研究所学习6个月，完成严格的研究伦理、生物伦理和方法课程、IRB观察、每周一次的FABTP研讨会、JHU和NIH正在进行的伦理研讨会，以及与JHU导师的定期会议。这确保了FABTP四项核心能力的培训：理论与原理；2. 科研伦理培训；3. 研究伦理委员会；和4。研究伦理的实证研究。在JHU期间，每位学员都要写一份20-25页的实习计划，包括目标、文献、方法、预算和时间表。在过去的6个月里，受训者在JHU和非洲教师的指导和定期“检查”下，在本国完成一个原创的、资助的研究伦理实习。FABTP还在6月组织一个为期一个月的研究伦理项目并配备人员，费用由福格蒂的其他项目分担，这些项目将学员送到JHU参加强化课程、研讨会、访问人类健康保护项目、国家卫生研究院和食品药品监督管理局，并与我们的学员互动。在该计划之前，只有1名FABTP一年制实习生在生物伦理学上发表过论文。目前的评估显示，2001-2007年的研究对象发表了60篇伦理学论文，参与了48个实证伦理学项目，教授了39门伦理学课程，做了72次伦理学演讲，成立了两个新的研究伦理委员会，参加了15个伦理委员会，参加了138个伦理研讨会。受训者和教师合作撰写了一篇被广泛引用的关于非洲区域经济中心的论文，该论文展示了非洲区域经济中心的历史和能力，以及这些受训者个人对其本国机构伦理审查能力建设产生的巨大影响。参与FABTP为我们23名学员中的7名继续攻读生物伦理学高级学位奠定了基础。我们的目标是长期的。我们认识到，专业发展取决于定期的项目指导，为同事提供多种专业机会，通过电子邮件、通讯、FABTP聚会和各种“小型聚会”进行定期沟通和社区建设，并在学员返回非洲后很长一段时间内继续提供此类支持和指导。如果获得资助，我们将继续为杰出的非洲专业人员提供严格和实用的研究伦理培训，促进在学员的家庭机构完成创新和当地有价值的实习工作，通过与其他福格蒂项目、AMANET的合作，以及与校友的持续联系，为非洲生物伦理社区建设投入资源。并继续严格评估我们的项目，以确保我们提供最优质的研究伦理培训。