Overview

The aim of this training programme is for sub-Saharan African REC members to gain theoretical and practical knowledge in the ethical review of complex protocols such as HIV prevention trials and in institutionalising research ethics review in their home institution.

Duration: 2 weeks

Dates:  10-21 September 2012

Venue: University of KwaZulu Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa

Scholarship

The scholarship includes module fees, training material, return economy flights, airport shuttle within Pietermaritzburg, accommodation, breakfast, dinner, and nominal per diem.  Please note that visa costs and travel within your own country are for your own account.

Who should apply?

African Research Ethics Committee (REC) chairs and members as well as people involved in establishing RECs in African institutions and/or countries. Applicants should be residents of an African country, fluent in the English language (oral and written) and have at least a 4 year Bachelor’s degree to be eligible to apply.  Note: SARETI teaching and evaluation is conducted entirely in English.

Application

Please complete the application and mail to singhn7@ukzn.ac.za. The completed application form must be accompanied by a 1 page CV and signed letter of support from a suitable institutional official. Incomplete applications will not be considered. Please submit your application no later than 01 June 2012, as space is limited.  Only successful applicants will be notified, if you do not receive notification of award by 15 June 2012, please consider your application unsuccessful.

Linda has been involved in grant management for University of Zambia based USAID projects, imparting executive assistance in program management, as well as having a direct hand in updating and developing university curricula among a variety of public health programs. Linda was also personally involved in training rural based stakeholders in an effort to address the burden of HIV/AIDS in Lusaka and surrounding rural areas.

While participating as a Fogarty African Bioethics Training Program partner, Linda hopes to continue to strengthen her training in bioethics and to develop an assessment of the standard operating procedures of Institutional Review Boards in her country, as a means of helping to develop capacity nationally. Upon her return to Zambia, Ms. Kampata intends to work with University of Zambia officials, as well as local legislators, to inform both strong healthcare practice and policy. She also looks forward to sharing her new knowledge about research ethics with fellow researchers at UNZA as a way of strengthening institutional capacity.

Contact: lindakampata@yahoo.com

The Public Responsibility in Medicine & Research (PRIM&R)  International Scholarship Program is designed to assist those members of the international research, academic, and medical communities who cannot otherwise attend the 2012 AER Conference because of financial constraints. Through the International Scholarship Program, PRIM&R will offer a limited number of scholarships to qualified representatives from developing countries to attend the conference, including graduate students, doctoral candidates, those beginning their careers in the research ethics arena, as well as established professionals. This year we are giving preference to first-time attendees and to those who submit a poster abstract.

Scholarships range from awards that either fully cover or partially subsidize registration fees to full packages that cover the following costs: registration for a pre-conference educational program of the scholar’s choice, registration for the main meeting, travel, lodging, and a per diem stipend for meals beyond those provided at the conference.

Completed applications are due no later than 5:00 PM ET on July 13, 2012.  Learn more about this program online at http://www.primr.org/Conferences.aspx?id=13048

Dr. Nalwadda – faculty at Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Uganda –  applied her FABTP training to teach bioethics and research ethics to nurses and midwives in Uganda. Her work expanded academically as she pursued a PhD in the Karolinska Institute/Makerere University joint PhD program, with a focus on Reproductive Health and Reproductive Rights.

To read more about Dr. Nalwadda’s dissertation, visit: Contraceptive Use Among Young People in Uganda: Exploration of obstacles, enablers, and quality of services

More information about Dr. Nalwadda can be found in her biosketch.

FABTP seeks applications from eligible African institutions for a funded collaborative partnership in international research ethics. The goal of the training partnership is to enhance research ethics capacity within the selected African institution. Applicant institutions must meet institutional eligibility requirements. The training partnership will occur over a 12-month period beginning December 2012, with opportunities for continued collaboration thereafter. The program will support the capacity development of one African institution per year.

For more information about the training partnership, eligibility requirements and application processes, please see the “Prospective Institutions” tab on our website.   You may also send an email to fabtp@jhsph.edu with specific questions.

The application deadline is 15 July 2012.

A PDF flyer of this announcement can be downloaded here for posting on bulletin boards and further distribution.

FABTP seeks applications from eligible African institutions for a funded collaborative partnership in international research ethics. The goal of the training partnership is to enhance research ethics capacity within the selected African institution. Applicant institutions must meet institutional eligibility requirements. The training partnership will occur over a 12-month period beginning December 2012, with opportunities for continued collaboration thereafter. The program will support the capacity development of one African institution per year.

For more information about the training partnership, eligibility requirements and application processes, please see the “Prospective Institutions” tab on our website.   You may also send an email to fabtp@jhsph.edu with specific questions.

The application deadline is 15 July 2012.

A PDF flyer of this announcement can be downloaded here for posting on bulletin boards and further distribution.

8th International Conference on Bioethics Education: Contents, Methods, Trends

Kinar Convention Center

Tiberias, Israel

September 2-5, 2012

Abstracts of approximately 250 words on any of the listed topics are invited for oral and/or poster presentation.

Email abstract to seminars@isas.co.il

Please be certain to include the following: title, authors’ names and places of work, and contact information including email address,

postal address and telephone number.

Deadline for abstract submission: March 15, 2012

Conference On-line Registration at www.isas.co.il/bioethics2012 or contact register@isas.co.il

Conference Secretariat:

ISAS International Seminars, POB 574, Jerusalem 91004, Israel

Tel: +972-2-6520574, Fax: +972-2-6520558

In case of emergency: +972-50-6758792 (not on Sabbath)

The Advanced Certificate Program in Research Ethics for Central and Eastern Europe, sponsored by Union Graduate College (USA) and Vilnius University (Lithuania), is hosting a meeting of its current trainees, alumni, and other Fogarty Program faculty and students in Prague from July 2nd through July 4th, 2012.

The purpose of the meeting is to highlight and share experiences in strengthening research ethics capacity in low- and middle-income countries, and to build a network to support future collaborative action.

Topics to be discussed include: best practices in teaching research ethics to international students; challenges faced by research ethicists working in low- and middle-income countries; current understanding (or lack thereof) of research ethics review practices and policies in various countries and regions of the world; approaches for building and maintaining robust research ethics infrastructure in the face of economic instability and political uncertainty; and  opportunities for developing new national and international collaborations in research ethics.

We would like to invite interested faculty, students and alumni from other Fogarty-funded training programs to submit proposals for oral presentation, panel sessions, papers and “laptop” posters (in which presenters describe research findings or best practices on a laptop computer to a small audience).

A brief abstract of 250-300 words should be submitted no later than Thursday, March 15th, 2012. Abstracts should be submitted via email to the Organizing Chairs at philpots@uniongraduatecollege.edu.

All abstracts should be in Word or RTF formats and contain the following information:

a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d) title of abstract, e) body of abstract, f) type of presentation (oral paper, panel or poster), and g) 3 keywords.

Panel presentations should consist of three to four abstracts organized around a central topic of direct relevance to the conference theme. Please use a plain sans serif 12-point font and abstain from using footnotes and any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). 

The conference organizers will acknowledge receipt and answer all proposals submitted. Acceptances will be sent to submitters no later than Monday, April 2nd, 2012.

For the conference organizers:

Vilius Dranseika (Lithuania)
Eugenijus Gefenas (Lithuania)
Sean Philpott (USA)
Marty Strosberg (USA)

Oliver has also been involved in HIV prevention research projects at both the national and international level, as a co-investigator and as a PI, many of which were multi-centers studies.  Other African country sites involved in the studies included Zambia, Uganda, Mozambique, South Africa, and Tanzania, Zimbabwe, and Malawi. His most recent work aims “to determine the feasibility of conducting a microbicides trial of daily vaginal gel (HEC gel) and to inform the way adherence should be assessed.” He has also been a consultant on the Population Council’s study in Zambia on the impact of male circumcision on sexual behavior and condom use negotiations.

Mr. Mweemba has an interest in research ethics based on both his research and teaching experience. As a lecturer, Oliver often focuses on qualitative research methods, which demands extensive knowledge and continuous training in the field. While participating in the Johns Hopkins African Bioethics Training Program he hopes to continue to broaden his knowledge and skills in qualitative research as well as to evaluate new ways of effective public health communication.

mweemba2@yahoo.com

This one-day seminar is geared for junior faculty, students, and administrators who are beginning the process of submitting grants to National Institutes of Health (NIH). It is also relevant for seasoned researchers who wish to refresh their knowledge of the new NIH requirements and the peer review process. Ultimately, the focus is to assist all who wish to submit winning research proposals to the NIH.

Those attending will learn how to:
• Find the Appropriate Program and Grant Mechanism for Your Idea
• Read and Interpret RFA’s
• Identify and Avoid Common Pitfalls of a Grant
• Develop an Irresistible Idea for Your Grant Application
• Address the Pieces of the Request for Proposal
• Maximize Your Application for Competitiveness
• Package the Proposal in the Requested Format
• Understand the New Scoring System and the Review Process
• Learn What Actually Happens in the Study Section
• Search for the Appropriate Study Sections For Submissions
• Decipher Pink Sheets: The Inevitable Resubmission
• Build an Airtight Case for Funding
• Discern the Art of the Budget

Presenter : Dr. Fatah Kashanchi trained under the supervision of Dr. Susumu Tonegawa (Nobel Laureate for Medicine, 1987) at MIT. Dr. Kashanchi further trained in Dr. John Brady’s lab at NIH/NCI from 1991-1998 and published more than 30 papers during his postdoc and senior investigator tenure. His research interests include both Genomics and Proteomics of HIV-1 and HTLV-1 infected cells. Research in Kashanchi’s lab has been funded by various internal and external sources including GW-REF, Selective Excellence, Keck, Snyder, Sinsheimer, Cyclacel, DOD, and more than 6 NIH grants, where he is the Principal investigator. Since his departure from NIH in 1998, Dr. Kashanchi has obtained $8.9 M of independent funding. He has 92 peer-reviewed publications in scientific journals, 7 book chapters, is an NIH study section member (5 independent study sections), as well as reviewer for 12 different journals.

For more information: The Grant Training Center
To Register: Rockville, MD
Or call us at 571-257-8864
Cost: (Including breakfast) $335.00

Can’t make it?
Join us on Monday, December 12, 2011 from 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. EST for our
“NIH Grant Development Workshop” Online Webinar
To register click on Webinar Registration and then on the Webinar from the workshop list.