Biomedical Research in Developing Countries - UNICRI

Fogarty International Center for Advanced Studies in Health Sciences
The Fogarty International Center for Advanced Studies in Health Sciences is the
international branch of the US National Institutes of Health. Its mission is to
address global health challenges through innovative and collaborative research and
training programs and to support the NIH, on the basis of international
partnerships.
Founded in 1968 by Presidential Order, the Fogarty International Centre has grown
to have an international output of $64 million budget for research, training, and
capacity building, extending to over 100 countries and involving some 5,000
scientists in the U.S. and abroad.
The Fogarty International Center is implementing a collaborative bioethics project
called “Strengthening Bioethics capacity and Justice in Health”, which aims to
promote research ethics and bioethics in the Democratic Republic of Congo and in
Francophone Africa.
Partners of this four-year project are: the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill (USA), the University of Louvain (Belgium) and the University of Kinshasa
(Democratic Republic of Congo).
A group of selected Congolese scholars will receive a research and medical ethics
training at the University of Louvain and at UNC-Chapel Hill, to permit them at
their return to Kinshasa, to create a new Bioethics Center at the Kinshasa School of
Public Health. This newborn Bioethics Center will have a local, regional and
international impact in promoting ethics and bioethics with their inclusion in
courses into the MPH degree programme. It will also organize conferences and
workshops, establish a bioethics resource center, offer bioethics consultation to
research and health institutions and conduct bioethics research.
Scholars coming from Francophone Africa will be invited at the Kinshasa Bioethics
Center for intensive bioethics workshops.
An English Bioethics Blog is part of this project, which will help to promote
reflection on bioethics and research ethics in Sub-Saharan Africa.
http://www.fic.nih.gov
Georgetown University, Kennedy Institute of Ethics
The Joseph P. and Rose F. Kennedy Institute of Ethics was established in 1971 at
Georgetown University with a grant from the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation.
The library of the Institute is one of the most important resources on bioethics,
extremely useful for people involved in research and bioethics: researchers, students,
physicians and policymakers. Being an essential reference for those who are
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