The Indiana University Center for Bioethics has been awarded a $940,000 four-year grant from the Fogarty International Center at the National Institutes of Health to establish a new research ethics training partnership with colleagues at Moi University in Eldoret, Kenya. The details are below.

Program Summary

The Indiana University-Moi University Academic Research Ethics Partnership (IU-Moi AREP) is a curriculum development and training initiative that builds on longstanding partnerships and collaborations in East Africa.

The IU-Moi AREP will develop two Master's degree programs: one at Indiana University/Purdue University in Indianapolis (IUPUI) and one at Moi University in Eldoret, Kenya. These graduate programs will have common and overlapping components, joint advisory committees, shared dissemination plans and harmonized evaluation strategies. Both programs will include a curriculum involving required core courses and electives and a year-long practicum, one semester of which will be taken at the counterpart university.

Each Master's program will enroll a minimum of three students per year. In addition, each institution will convene annual workshops on Teaching Skills in International Research Ethics to provide training to approximately 20 faculty and students each year. All materials will be collected in training modules that will be distributed as CDs and online with the assistance of the Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI).

Principal Investigators

Eric M. Meslin, PhD, Principal Investigator, Indiana University
Duncan Ngare, DrPH, Co-Principal Investigator, Moi University

Program Managers

Linus Kipyego Lagat, B.COM(BA), IU-Moi AREP Program Manager, Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital
Daphne Kyomuhendo Muzoora, MA, MS, MBChB, IU-Moi AREP Program Manager, Indiana University

Related:

• International Research Ethics: A Needs Assessment of Research Ethics Capacity at Moi University and Indiana University
• International Research Ethics Seminar Series
• Jean Monnet Module
• Standard operating procedures for institutional research & ethics committee. College of Health Sciences, Moi University; Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital. Eldoret, Kenya. [PDF - 87.8 KB]

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