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Principal Investigator: ARTHUR Leonard CAPLAN
Organization: UNIVERSITY OF GHANA
Fiscal Year: 2024
Award: $247,768
Funding agency: John E. Fogarty International Center for Advanced Study in the Health Sciences
Project Summary
The proposed program will continue to build sustainable research ethics and integrity capacity in Ghana through a
joint partnership between New York University Grossman School of Medicine (NYU GSOM) and University of Ghana
School of Public Health (UG SPH). The NYU-UG Research Integrity Training Program (NYU-UG RITP) addresses
the considerable need for research ethics and integrity training through three initiatives: (1) the strengthening of
faculty and enhancement of curriculum at the new MSc. in Bioethics Program at UG SPH through a faculty exchange
program, faculty development workshops, co-development and co-delivery of a series of short courses on emerging
bioethics issues, support for advanced study, mentoring, co-teaching of MSc. courses, and annual program
evaluations, all aiming to ensure the program’s self-sufficiency and long-term sustainability; (2) the development and
implementation of a capacity building program consisting of short courses and workshops informed by needs
assessments and designed to meet the most urgent and important training needs of personnel at key institutions in
Ghana’s research ethics system; and (3) the continuation and expansion of the NYU-UG Fellowship Program in
Research Integrity (a) to provide 24 fellows with master’s-level certificates in research ethics to populate local
research regulatory and educational systems, and (b) to provide mentoring and career development opportunities to
Fellowship graduates, including fellows from NYU-UG RITP’s first phase. We will expand our Fellowship Program’s
impact by enrolling trainees from Liberia and Sierra Leone and by facilitating the emergence of the West Africa
Research Ethics Network (WAREN), whose members will include graduates of our program and of Fogarty training
programs in the West Africa subregion (e.g., Nigeria, The Gambia). Our Fellowship Program will train 2 cohorts of
12 fellows, each cohort comprising 6 trainees from Ghana, 3 from Liberia, and 3 from Sierra Leone. Six outstanding
fellows will enroll in the UG SPH program, preparing them to join that program as faculty or to lead future training
programs in Liberia and Sierra Leone. Fellows will be selected from researchers who have completed MDs or
master’s or doctoral degrees in relevant fields so that the training can build upon their expertise and experience with
research methods and local health needs. The one-year Fellowship Program will offer intensive courses in the history
and philosophy of research ethics, research integrity, and developing a collaborative research output. Fellows will
also complete a practicum experience in the ethical review of research or a mentored collaborative research project
on an issue in research ethics or integrity of special importance in the local context. Courses will be co-developed
and co-delivered by expert faculty from NYU GSOM and UG SPH. UG SPH faculty will contextualize the curriculum
to ensure its cultural relevance. Graduates will contribute to the bioethics literature studies of research ethics and
bioethics issues of special significance in Ghana and the subregion, contributions that are essential to reframing
discussions of international research ethics and including LMIC-based researchers’ priorities and perspectives.
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