Biomedical Research in Developing Countries - UNICRI

CHAPTER II
GLOBAL TRAINING INITIATIVES AND PROGRAMMES ON BIOETHICS
This list is a compilation of private and public institutions, universities and research
centres which provide, at various levels, training programmes and information
tools in support of bioethics, ethical clinical research and ethical review of clinical
research with human participants. In the course of our survey we identify four
main areas of intervention that characterize the offer for training by the various
institutions and can be summarized as follows:
AREA 1: Strengthening capacity for ethical review;
AREA 2: Assistance in establishing bioethics committees;
AREA 3: Training in biomedical ethics;
AREA 4: Strengthening of the harmonization process in the application of GCP.
Although many programmes are specialized in their scope, based on the above
classification, a certain degree of overlapping in the activities among the institutions
will be noted, as well as a tendency to offer more than one type of training. That is
why we have chosen to list the institutions in alphabetical order and not by the type
of training offered. Most of the information on the institutions and training
programmes has been downloaded from their websites, the address of which is
indicated at the end of each description.
This compilation is available for consultation on the UNICRI website at:
www.unicri.it
Any organization or individual who wish to post their project or training
programme on the listing should contact:
Alice Paola Brizi, Researcher, UNICRI at Clinical Trials Ethics Project
African Health Research Forum
AHRF
The African Health Research Forum was launched on the occasion of the 6 th Global
Forum on Health Research, which was held in Arusha, Tanzania, in 2002. This was
a fundamental step in the strengthening of an African perspective in health research
and for the promotion of development in Africa. Its main goal was to “position
health research as an integral tool for development” through the promotion of the
mechanisms for the intensification of the conduct, collaboration and coordination
of health research in the African continent; the support of research for development;
the reduction of the global imbalances in health research and the enhancement of
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