UMB-IRB and Nigerian NHREC Collaborative Capacity Building Initiative

描述（由申请人提供）：马里兰大学巴尔的摩机构审查委员会-尼日利亚国家卫生研究伦理委员会（NHREC）合作能力建设倡议（UMBINN）是一个旨在提高两个伦理审查委员会高效和有效地监督联合研究项目的能力的计划。通过培训讲习班、政策制定研讨会、短期实习以及在尼日利亚部署从UMB-IRB到NHREC的电子研究方案注册、审查和跟踪系统，这两个伦理委员会将进一步了解各自国家进行伦理审查的伦理、文化、政治和宗教环境。这项培训活动为促进基于网络的电子研究伦理管理系统的技术转让奠定了基础，该系统将加强国际合作和NHREC在尼日利亚建立国家伦理能力的能力。该提案利用了大型艾滋病毒/艾滋病项目、相关研究和公共卫生评估以及人类病毒学研究所的基础设施，重点关注艾滋病毒/艾滋病感染者的研究

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of Maryland Baltimore Institutional Review Board - National Health Research Ethics Committee of Nigeria (NHREC) Collaborative Capacity Building Initiative (UMBINN) is a program designed to enhance the capacity of the two ethics review committee to efficiently and effectively supervise joint research projects. Through training workshops, policy development seminars, short term internships and deployment of electronic research protocol registration, review and tracking system from UMB-IRB to NHREC in Nigeria, the two ethics committees will gain improved knowledge of the ethical, cultural, political and religious environment in which ethics review occurs in their countries. This training activity lays the foundation for promoting technology transfer of a web-based electronic research ethic management system that will strengthen international collaboration and the capacity of NHREC to build national ethics capacity in Nigeria. The proposal takes advantage of the large HIV/AIDS program and associated research and public health evaluations as well as the infrastructure of the Institute of Human Virology and focuses on research among people living with HIV/AIDS PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: This project is designed to strengthen the ethical oversight of research conducted in Nigeria and jointly supervised by the University of Maryland Institutional Review Board and the National Health Research Ethics Committee of Nigeria. It also lays the foundation for the introduction of electronic IRB system for the Nigerian Committee