JHU-Fogarty African Bioethics Training Program

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请申请资金继续约翰霍普金斯大学-福格蒂非洲生物伦理学培训项目。我们的项目始于四年前。从那时起，我们为12名非洲专业人员提供了为期一年的生物伦理和研究伦理培训，并与非洲疟疾网络信托基金（AMANET）合作资助了两次讲习班。学员已返回非洲担任责任更重的职位，并为地方、国家和国际机构提供道德指导。如果再次获得资助，我们将在未来四年在约翰霍普金斯大学生物伦理学研究所、约翰霍普金斯大学公共卫生学院和美国国立卫生研究院临床生物伦理学部门再培训20名非洲专业人员。12名受训者将完成为期一年的项目，前六个月将在约翰霍普金斯大学参加生物伦理学和研究方法论的密集课程，IRB观察，每周研究员研讨会，JHU和NIH的其他研讨会；在乔治敦大学的生物伦理学强化课程中担任JHU夏季国际伦理学课程的助教，每周与顾问会面。在JHU学习期间，每个学员都要写一份15-20页的实习计划书，包括目标、文献、方法、预算和时间表。第二个六个月是在他们的祖国完成一个原创的、有指导的、有资助的实习。该实习侧重于该计划四项核心能力中的1-2项：1)理论和原则；2)科研伦理培训；3)伦理审查委员会；4)研究伦理的实证研究。每年将有另外两名学员完成我们为期一个月的新项目，参加两项为期一周的强化课程和特别研讨会，并访问人类资源保护项目、食品药品监督管理局和国家卫生研究院，并与其他三个福格蒂项目的学员进行交流。核心项目教师来自JHU生物伦理研究所和公共卫生学院。五名非洲教师与我们的项目有长期的联系，三名是这个项目的校友。更广阔的环境容纳了我们的项目是丰富的。JHU生物伦理研究所有正在进行的博士和博士后项目和数百万美元的研究组合。JHU公共卫生学院开展的国际研究比国内任何其他此类学院都多。我们学校有许多令人垂涎的国际培训项目，包括福格蒂的一些项目。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，在我们成功的基础上继续努力，利用我们的经验使我们的项目变得更好，并继续尽可能地指导和促进校友和未来学员的生物伦理或专业发展。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application requests funds to continue the Johns Hopkins-Fogarty African bioethics training program. Our program started four years ago. Since then, we have provided one-year bioethics and research ethics training to twelve African professionals and funded two workshops with the African Malaria Network Trust (AMANET). Trainees have returned to Africa to positions of increased responsibility and have provided ethics guidance to local, national, and international bodies. If funded again, we will train 20 additional African professionals over the next four years at the Johns Hopkins Bioethics Institute, the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, and the NIH Department of Clinical Bioethics. Twelve trainees will complete the one-year program, spending the first six months at Johns Hopkins in an intensive program of bioethics and research methodology courses, IRB observations, a weekly fellows' seminar, other seminars at JHU and the NIH; the Intensive Bioethics Course at Georgetown, serving as teaching assistants in the JHU summer international ethics course and meeting weekly with advisors. While at JHU, each trainee will write a 15-20 page practicum proposal including objectives, literature, methods, budget, and timeline. The second six months is spent completing an original, mentored, funded practicum in their home countries. The practicum focuses on 1-2 of the program's four core competencies: 1) theory and principles; 2) training in research ethics; 3) ethics review boards; and 4) empirical research on research ethics. Two additional trainees per year will complete our new one-month program, taking two intensive one-week courses, special seminars, and visiting OHRP, FDA, and the NIH, and interacting with trainees from three other Fogarty programs. Core program faculty are from the JHU Bioethics Institute and School of Public Health. Five African faculty have long affiliations with our program, and three are alumni of this program. The broader environment housing our program is rich. The JHU Bioethics Institute has ongoing doctoral and postdoctoral programs and a multi-million dollar portfolio of research. The JHU School of Public Health conducts more international research than any other such school in the country. Our School has numerous coveted international training programs, including several from Fogarty. If funded, we will continue to provide rigorous and practical training in research ethics to extraordinary African professionals, build on our successes, use our experience to make our program even better, and continue to mentor and facilitate, as oossible, the bioethics orofessional develooment of both alumni and future trainees.