Biomedical Research in Developing Countries - UNICRI

esearch, neuro-ethics, good clinical and laboratory practices.
WAB foresees also a limited number of scholarships for those students from West
Africa who meet the criteria for admission at Ibadan University, through grants
from the NIH, USA.
WAB also organizes free online Bioethics Training Programmes on GCP and
“Students in Research” modules in collaboration with the Collaborative Institutional
Training Initiative – CITI. In the recent past years, WAB has organized training
course and conferences on different issues, such as the Six Weeks Intensive Course
on Modern International Research Ethics (2007) and the African Health Research
Ethics Symposium (2006).
http://www.westafricanbioethics.net/wabcms/
World Health Organization Ethics and Health
Within WHO, various Departments are involved in ethical issues related to medical
research and regulatory mechanisms of medical research. The Department of Ethics,
Equity, Trade and Human Rights, in the Information, Research and Evidence cluster
(IER/ETH), created in 2002, advances the principles of dignity, justice, and security
in health and oversees that these principles are incorporated into programmes and
policies across WHO, to foster effective global, and national action based on these
principles.
Through the U.N. Inter-Agency Committee on Bioethics, the unit also has liaison
relations with the ethics offices of other United Nations agencies as well as
governmental and nongovernmental organizations dealing with bioethics issues,
such as FAO, ILO, UNHCHR, UNESCO, WIPO.
The ETH also provides the secretariat for the GFBR.
http://www.who.int/ethics/en/
WHO - Department of Research Policy and Cooperation
The Department of Research Policy and Cooperation is part of WHO’s Information,
Evidence and Research (IER) Cluster and it helps to reinforce the informational,
scientific and ethical issues of health research. Its major aim is to ensure the
development of health systems in poor resource settings. The main objectives of the
department are: to encourage better use of evidence in health decision making and
policy development; to strengthen health systems research; to promote good
research practices through the coordination of mechanism, guidelines and
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