Biomedical Research in Developing Countries - UNICRI

historians, ethicists, social scientists, teachers, healthcare professionals and
policymakers. The Wellcome Trust is engaged also in promoting contemporary
sciences in the curriculum, supporting teachers in their preparation of science
education programmes and facilitating the relationship between young generations
and biomedical issues. The fund also supports researchers in communicating their
work.
The Wellcome Trust works in order to ensure the respect of ethical requirements in
research, through the building of expertise for people involved.
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West African Bioethics Training Programme
WAB
The West African Bioethics is a training programme based at the University of
Ibadan, Nigeria, which provides postgraduate degree courses in bioethics both for
English and French speaking people.
The multidisciplinary training programme in international research bioethics is
designed for mid-career professionals who are members of health research ethics
committees or institutional review boards/committees, lecturers or individuals
nominated by their institutions to develop institutional education programs in
bioethics, health research committee administrators and anybody who has an
interest in research ethics.
The goal of this program is to create a cadre of individuals capable of serving at the
highest levels in institutional health research ethics committees, administer health
research ethics committees, train others in the principles of modern research ethics,
conduct research in research ethics and provide ethics consultation. This
postgraduate program aims to build capacity for the ethical review of health
research and to strengthen the capacity of the Ethics Committees in institutions
throughout West Africa. Furthermore, it aims to produce bioethics experts who can
contribute to the global bioethics discourse from a West African perspective
The training is provided by faculty from University of Ibadan, the Dominican
Institute and international experts in bioethics and it is designed in modules, in order
to allow the participation to each short core-course. The core-programs include:
informed consent, research ethics and ethics committees’ functions and
administration, culture, religion and ethics, research designs, research methods,
teaching and writing methods in bioethics and ethics and research integrity. Noncore
programs include: ethics in international collaborative research, ethical issues
in reproductive and population health, negotiation and conflict resolution, health
law and bioethics, human rights, law and bioethics, clinical bioethics,
environmental ethics, ethics of research with children, ethics of community based
research, bioethics and biotechnology, public health ethics, ethics of research in
vulnerable populations and mass emergencies, ethics and social and behavioral
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