Building on the partnership with University of Liberia, College of Health Sciences (ULCHS), the Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health (VIGH) will develop a develop a one-year research ethics education program for members of four institutional review boards (IRBs) in Monrovia, Liberia. Research education and training activities will adapt to the Liberian context from the well-established Collaborative Research Ethics Education (Formação Colaborativa em Etica na Pesquisa, FoCEP) Program for Mozambique.
- Two-Part Research Ethics Practicum Targeting Liberian IRB Directors/Administrators
- Two Part IRB Committee Member Workshop Series on Research Ethics, Research Integrity, and RCR
This project is a Supplement for VU-Mozambique Collaborative Research Ethics Education Program:
Formação Colaborativa em Ética na Pesquisa (FoCEP).This program builds upon successes of its first five-year period and will continue to nurture a new generation of global health researchers from Mozambique in the ethical review of human participant research and the responsible conduct of research (RCR). This program will continue to strengthen the development and institutionalization of a system for ethical review of human research protocols in Mozambique's biomedical research institutions and newly developed Research Ethics Committees (REC). The present proposal has been developed in response to focused and carefully considered requests from the leadership of UEM and the Mozambican National Bioethics Committee for Health (Comité Nacional de Bioética para Saúde, CNBS) for VUMC's assistance in developing national capacity for ethical review of human studies protocols and teaching research ethics to biomedical and public health investigators.