JHU-Fogarty African Bioethics Training Program

描述(由申请者提供)：本申请申请继续约翰·霍普金斯-福格蒂非洲生物伦理培训项目。我们的项目是四年前开始的。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，并资助了与非洲疟疾网络信托基金(Amanet)举办的两个讲习班。受训人员已返回非洲，担任责任更大的职位，并向地方、国家和国际机构提供道德指导。如果再次获得资金，我们将在未来四年内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系再培训20名非洲专业人员。12名学员将完成为期一年的课程，前六个月在约翰霍普金斯大学参加生物伦理学和研究方法强化课程、IRB观察、每周研究员研讨会、JHU和NIH的其他研讨会；乔治敦大学的生物伦理学强化课程，担任JHU夏季国际伦理课程的助教，并每周与顾问会面。在JHU，每个实习生要写一份15-20页的实习提案，包括目标、文献、方法、预算和时间表。接下来的六个月是在本国完成原创的、有指导的、有资金支持的实习。实习的重点是该项目四个核心能力中的1-2个：1)理论和原则；2)研究伦理培训；3)伦理审查委员会；以及4)研究伦理的实证研究。每年新增两名实习生将完成我们为期一个月的新计划，参加两个为期一周的强化课程、特别研讨会，参观OHRP、FDA和NIH，并与其他三个Fogarty项目的实习生进行互动。核心项目教员来自JHU生物伦理学研究所和公共卫生学院。五名非洲教员长期参与我们的项目，其中三名是该项目的校友。我们的项目所在的更广泛的环境是丰富的。JHU生物伦理学研究所有正在进行的博士和博士后项目，以及数百万美元的研究组合。JHU公共卫生学院进行的国际研究比该国任何其他此类学校都多。我们学校有许多令人垂涎的国际培训项目，其中包括几个来自Fogarty的项目。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而实用的研究伦理培训，在我们成功的基础上再接再厉，利用我们的经验使我们的计划变得更好，并继续指导和促进校友和未来实习生的生物伦理职业发展。

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.