Educating and Developing Bioethicists in Tanzania (ENGAGE)

摘要 此应用程序响应PAR-16-454： 国际生物伦理学研究培训计划(D43) 重点开展坦桑尼亚生物伦理学研究培训。 需要经过博士培训的生物伦理学学者和 低收入和中等收入国家(LMIC)的生命伦理学研究迫在眉睫。随着最近出现的 冠状病毒公共卫生大流行和对有限资源分配的担忧 在做出影响其公民的道德决策时面临艰巨的挑战。他们还面临其他日复一日的 临床护理和临床研究中的日间伦理问题，包括弱势患者的知情同意， 艾滋病毒的发病率和流行率，关于决策角色的文化观点，向患者说真话，以及 家庭，以及其他许多人。所有这些领域都需要在坦桑尼亚培养和发展生物伦理学家。 (交战)。我们利用Muhimbili之间九年来成功的跨学科合作 卫生与联合服务大学(MUHAS)、达特茅斯大学和宾夕法尼亚大学 在坦桑尼亚培养一批有博士学位的生物伦理学学者。合作促进了 生物伦理学部的创建、人员配置和证明的可持续性和成功 公共卫生与社会科学学院的卫生专业精神。本局提供 生物伦理学硕士，教授生物伦理学的广泛学位课程， 木哈斯。本应用程序的目的是建立在这一成就的基础上，并满足以下需求 培养能够整合理论、研究和公共卫生政策的生命伦理学学者，并成为 与国家相关的生物伦理学领域的知识和学术领袖。为了达到这一目标，我们 建议：(1)招聘和培训6名博士生；(2)准备下一代 将站在科学研究和促进公众健康的前沿的生物伦理学学者 (3)在该地区发展可持续的生物伦理研究能力。没有一家机构 在坦桑尼亚，它提供博士级别的正式生物伦理学培训。因此，国家和区域将 受益于具有博士学位的生物伦理学家，他们拥有解决国家最紧迫问题的技能 生物伦理学和公共卫生相关问题。

ABSTRACT This application responds to PAR-16-454: International Bioethics Research Training Program (D43) with a focus on bioethics research training in Tanzania. The need for doctoral-trained bioethics scholars and bioethics scholarship in low and middle-income countries (LMIC) is urgent. With the recent emergence of the coronavirus public health pandemic and concerns about the allocation of finite resources, LMICs face daunting challenges when making ethical decisions that affect their citizens. They also face other day-to- day ethical issues in clinical care and clinical research, including informed consent from vulnerable patients, HIV incidence and prevalence, cultural views about decision-making roles, truth-telling to patients and families, and many others. All these areas require educating and developing bioethicists in Tanzania (ENGAGE). We capitalize on nine years of successful interdisciplinary collaboration between Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Services (MUHAS), Dartmouth and the University of Pennsylvania to prepare a cadre of doctoral prepared bioethics scholars in Tanzania. The collaboration has facilitated the creation, staffing, and demonstrated sustainability and successes of the Department of Bioethics and Health Professionalism in the School of Public Health and Social Sciences. The Department offers the Masters of Bioethics and teaches bioethics across the broad spectrum of degree programs offered at MUHAS. The purpose of this application is to build on this accomplishment and address the need to develop bioethics scholars who can integrate theory, research, and public-health policy and become intellectual and academic leaders in the field of bioethics relevant to the country. To achieve this aim, we propose to: (1) recruit and train six individuals at the doctoral level; (2) prepare the next generation of bioethics scholars who will be at the forefront of scientific inquiry and advancement of the public's health in Tanzania, and (3) develop a sustainable research capacity for bioethics in the region. There is no institution in Tanzania that offers formal bioethics training at the doctoral level. Thus, the country and the region will benefit from doctoral prepared bioethicists who have the skills to address the country's most pressing bioethics and public health-related problems.