Research Ethics Training and Curriculum Development Program with China

描述（由申请人提供）：我们在与中国领先的学术机构中南大学湘雅医学院广泛合作的基础上，提出了一个全面的多学科研究伦理培训和课程开发计划。我们汇集了来自美国和中国的经验丰富的研究人员，他们在课程开发、国际研究项目的实施和评估以及培训项目、指导国际学者方面拥有丰富的经验，并精心设计了一个能够满足东道国机构短期和长期需求的项目。拟议的培训方案将制定和传播研究生水平的研究伦理课程；为11名中国研究人员和卫生专业人员提供多学科研究方法、生物伦理和研究伦理审查方面的长期（18个月）和中期（10个月）培训；提供密集的短期课程和研讨会的研究方法，拨款和手稿写作和选定的研究伦理主题；加强对人体受试者的保护，加强湘雅医学院和耶鲁大学机构审查委员会审查研究方案的能力。我们相信，通过该项目培养的中国学者将在未来几年影响整个中国的研究伦理政策和实践。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We propose a comprehensive multi-disciplinary Research Ethics Training and Curriculum Development Program that builds on the success of our extensive collaborations with Central South Univesity, Xiangya Schol of Medicine, a leading academic instituition in China. We have assembled a team of seasoned investigators from U.S. and China with extensive experience in curriculum development, conduct and evaluation of international research projects as well as in training programs, mentoring international scholars and have carefully designed a program that is responsive to the short-term and long-term needs of the host country institution. The proposed training program will develop and disseminate graduate level curricula in research ethics; provide long-term (18 months) and medim-term (10 months) training to 11 Chinese researchers and health professionals in multi-disciplinary research methodologies, bioethics and ethical review of research; offer intensive short-courses and workshops on research methods, grant and manuscript writing and selected research ethics topics; enhance human subjects protection and strengthen the capacity of Institutional Review Boards at Xiangya School of Medicine and Yale University to review research protocols. We believe the Chinese scholars trained through this program will influence research ethics policy and practice throughout China in the years to come.