TY - JOUR
T1 - Improving institutional research ethics capacity assessments
T2 - lessons from sub-Saharan Africa
AU - Deutsch-Feldman, Molly
AU - Ali, Joseph
AU - Kass, Nancy
AU - Phaladze, Nthabiseng
AU - Michelo, Charles
AU - Sewankambo, Nelson
AU - Hyder, Adnan A.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Fogarty International Center and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number R25 TW 001604. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health. The authors would like to thank the faculty and staff at our partnership institutions: The University of Botswana, Office of Research and Development; Makerere University, College of Health Sciences; and The University of Zambia, School of Medicine. Their support and collaboration were critical to the development of this manuscript.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - The amount of biomedical research being conducted around the world has greatly expanded over the past 15 years, with particularly large growth occurring in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). This increased focus on understanding and responding to disease burdens around the world has brought forth a desire to help LMIC institutions enhance their own capacity to conduct scientifically and ethically sound research. In support of these goals the Johns Hopkins-Fogarty African Bioethics Training Program (FABTP) has, for the past six years, partnered with three research institutions in Africa (University of Botswana, Makerere University in Uganda, and the University of Zambia) to support research ethics capacity. Each partnership began with a baseline evaluation of institutional research ethics environments in order to properly tailor capacity strengthening activities and help direct limited institutional resources. Through the course of these partnerships we have learned several lessons regarding the evaluation process and the framework used to complete the assessments (the Octagon Model). We believe that these lessons are generalizable and will be useful for groups conducting such assessments in the future.
AB - The amount of biomedical research being conducted around the world has greatly expanded over the past 15 years, with particularly large growth occurring in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). This increased focus on understanding and responding to disease burdens around the world has brought forth a desire to help LMIC institutions enhance their own capacity to conduct scientifically and ethically sound research. In support of these goals the Johns Hopkins-Fogarty African Bioethics Training Program (FABTP) has, for the past six years, partnered with three research institutions in Africa (University of Botswana, Makerere University in Uganda, and the University of Zambia) to support research ethics capacity. Each partnership began with a baseline evaluation of institutional research ethics environments in order to properly tailor capacity strengthening activities and help direct limited institutional resources. Through the course of these partnerships we have learned several lessons regarding the evaluation process and the framework used to complete the assessments (the Octagon Model). We believe that these lessons are generalizable and will be useful for groups conducting such assessments in the future.
KW - LMIC
KW - Research ethics
KW - capacity assessment
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U2 - 10.1080/11287462.2018.1528660
DO - 10.1080/11287462.2018.1528660
M3 - Article
C2 - 33343187
AN - SCOPUS:85070916142
SN - 1128-7462
VL - 31
SP - 120
EP - 132
JO - Global Bioethics
JF - Global Bioethics
IS - 1
ER -