The June 2022 edition of the CBR Newsletter has been published. Included in this edition are updates about ongoing projects and more exciting initiatives being rolled out at the Center for Bioethics and Research. Click here to read the newsletter

We are glad to announce the flag-off of a new online training targeted towards the prevention of sexual harassment in the workplace. Due to the huge impact of the work environment on the health and productivity of people in the workplace, it is very important to ensure that the work environment is made conducive to…

We are very pleased to announce the publication of A Theory of Bioethics by David DeGrazia and Joseph Millum. This volume offers a carefully argued, compelling theory of bioethics while eliciting practical implications for a wide array of issues including medical assistance-in-dying, the right to health care, abortion, animal research, and the definition of death. The authors’…

The Center for Bioethics and Research (CBR) is inviting you to review our new webinars on CITI program. The new webinars include, Getting Started in Grant Writing: An Introduction for Graduate Students, Postdocs, and New Faculty. The new webinar features the underlisted: Identify major phases in grant proposal development. Locate relevant sources of information on…

The Center for Bioethics and Research is excited to announce yet another new course “Observational Research Protocols: An Introduction” in partnership with Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI). Observational studies are important and exceedingly useful in the biomedical and social sciences, as well as other fields such as education. This concise course covers the essentials of…

The Introduction to the Principles and Practice of Clinical Research course (IPPCR) is a free lecture series from thought-leaders around the world covering: study designs, measurement and statistics; ethical, legal, monitoring, and regulatory considerations; preparing and implementing clinical studies; and communicating research findings and other topics. This free, self-paced, online course is open for registration…

The 9th Annual Symposium on Global Cancer Research will be held virtually March 10-11, 2021, as a satellite meeting to the 12th Annual Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) Global Health Conference. The Symposium is organized through a collaboration with the US National Cancer Institute Center for Global Health, CUGH, Dan L. Duncan Comprehensive…

AcademyHealth is seeking participation from individuals of low- and middle-income countries at this year’s virtual Science of D&I Conference. Scholarships have been made available to cover the registration fee for individuals who would benefit for participating. Applicants for the scholarship must come from low- and middle-income countries and who would be otherwise unable to participate…

Keystone Symposia is offering a limited number of free registrations to early career scientists, as well as participants from low- and middle- income countries (LMICs), to attend the new eSymposia series. This new digital format enables the inclusion of more diverse voices and global perspectives in conversations at the forefront of science and medicine, which are essential…

Center for Bioethics and Research is pleased to invite you to join our Webinar on ‘’Bioethics in Nigeria’’ This Conference is organised collaboratively by Center for Bioethics and Research (CBR), National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC), and Nigeria Health Research Ethics Committee (NHREC) Theme: Enhancing Awareness of Research Ethics Oversight among…

The Center for Bioethics and Research is pleased to invite you to a Webinar Presentation on ‘Advancing the Need for Regulation of Assisted Reproductive Technology in Nigeria: Practitioner Perspectives and Clients Experiences’. Topic: Advancing the Need for Regulation of Assisted Reproductive Technology in Nigeria: Practitioner Perspectives and Clients Experiences Date: Monday 31st August, 2020 Time:…

Apply now for financial aid to attend upcoming eSymposia virtual meetings! Keystone Symposia is offering a limited number of free registrations in the form of Global Health Awards to participants from low- and middle- income countries (LMICs) to participate in our new eSymposia series. This new digital format enables the inclusion of more diverse voices and…

Annual Blended Diploma Course in Informed Consent and Foundations of Modern Bioethics Duration:    2 months Content: Foundations of Modern Bioethics Informed Consent and Management of Ethics Committees Modality: The program comprises an online component with online lectures and discussion forum and weekend retreats where reviews and tests based on the online course content are…

Announcing New “Essentials of Grant Proposal Development” Course Center for Bioethics and Research is excited to announce yet another course “Essentials of Grant Proposal Development” in partnership with Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI). Deep understanding of grants, how to find them, and how to create and submit a proposal are essential skills required of researchers;…

Announcing New Course “Essentials of Statistical Analysis (EOSA)” The Center for Bioethics and Research in partnership with Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI) is happy to announce a new course “Essentials of Statistical Analysis (EOSA)’’ An awareness of the importance of statistical analysis helps researchers, students and administrators to adopt a proper methods to collect data,…

Announcing New Course “Research Study Design” Center for Bioethics and Research is excited to announce yet another new course “Research Study Design” in partnership with Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI). The framework and techniques adopted by a researcher enables the researcher take up a research methods that are appropriate for the subject matter and this…

Announcing New Module: “Ethical and Appropriate Uses of Administrative Data for Research and Evaluation” The Center for Bioethics and Research in partnership with Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI) is happy to announce a new module “Ethical and Appropriate Uses of Administrative Data for Research and Evaluation’’.  This new module is designed to complement our interesting…

Mentored Research Program for Early Career Bioethics Scholars From Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Open Call for Applications Department of Bioethics, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health Early career bioethics scholars (PhD students, Postdocs, and Lecturers/Assistant Professors) from low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are invited to apply for a mentored research program at the US National…

This is to announce that the 8th Annual Symposium on Global Cancer Research (ASGCR2020) will take place on Friday, April 17, 2020, preceding the 11th Annual Consortium of Universities for Global Health Conference in Washington DC. The theme for the ASGCR2020 is “Creative approaches to global cancer research and control”.  The call for abstracts is currently open for those…

CITI Program Service is now back Online. Thank you for your patience

We are having trouble with our CITI program, the service will be restored on 5th of July. Please bear with us

On behalf of the H3Africa INDIGENE Study team, We are pleased to announce the launch of our online database of indigenous words, concepts and other expressions that can be used to communicate genomics and genomics research. https://indigenestudy.bioethicscenter.net We started with a database of Yoruba genomics-related words and will be building up the database to include…

Announcing New “Essentials of Grant Proposal Development” Course Center for Bioethics and Research is excited to announce yet another course “Essentials of Grant Proposal Development” in partnership with Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI). Deep understanding of grants, how to find them, and how to create and submit a proposal are essential skills required of researchers;…

Dr. Clement Adebamowo Recognized for Research in Challenging Populations and Settings Clement A. Adebamowo, BM, ChB, ScD, FWACS, FACS, Associate Director of Population Science at the Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM), and Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, Institute of Human Virology, has been named a…

American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) acknowledges and honours SOCRON President (Prof. C. A. Adebawomo) and other leaders in cancer care with 2018 Special Awards. Please scroll down to the section on Fellows of the American Society of Clinical Oncology on this link: https://connection.asco.org/magazine/society-member-news/asco-honors-leaders-cancer-care-2018-special-awards

On November 4th 2017, as part of the mandatory retreat for students in our Blended Diploma in Research Ethics, we will be having a guest lecture to be delivered by Dr. Mrs. O. Akintola of the Faculty of Law, University of Ibadan. Lecture: Big data, small data, my data, whose data? Ethics of data sharing in…

Announcing new Reproducibility of Research Results module as part of the Center for Bioethics and Research online course on Responsible Conduct of Research Center for Bioethics and Research in partnership with Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI) is pleased to announce a new module “Reproducibility of Research Results”. In a series of Notices in 2017, the NIH informed the…

Seminar was held at Dept. of Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan. Wednesday 27TH September 2017. Topic: Taboos and Ethics in Traditional African Medicine: The Unexplored Aspects. The West African Bioethics Training Program (WAB) Monthly Seminar for September 2017 was held in the tutorial room of the Department of Surgery, College of Medicine,…

Bioethics Seminar Dept. of Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan. Wednesday 23rd August, 2017. The New WHO Guidelines on Ethical Issues in Public Health Surveillance: Implications for Action in Nigeria. The Monthly Bioethics Seminar of  the West African Bioethics Training Program (WAB), for August 2017 was held in the tutorial room of the…

This is a re-introduction to the Masters’ degree in Bioethics at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. This program which was started in 2004 with support from the United States Fogarty International Center has trained 41 students from Nigeria and other West African countries to date. Graduates from our program have progressed to doctoral programs in…

I am Onochie Ikechukwu Okoye, a bioethicist and ophthalmologist from Nigeria. My principal duties at my parent institutions (University of Nigeria and University Of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Ituku –Ozalla, Enugu, Nigeria) include clinical services, teaching, training, research, administration and community work.For some reasons beyond my comprehension, I had always nursed some measure of interest in…

African Cultural Concept of Death and the Idea of Advance Care Directives. Ekore RI1, Lanre-Abass B  Indian J Palliat Care. 2016 Oct-Dec; 22(4): 369-372. Abstract An advance care directive is a person’s oral or written instructions about his or her future medical care, if he or she becomes unable to communicate. It may be in…

BeOnline, the Bioethics Online journal of the West African Bioethics Training is an open-access online journal. This journal contributes to the global discourse on bioethics with the focus of adding the voice of Africans and research in Africa to the debate about clinical and research ethics, primarily in Africa and in the world at large.…

The following onsite trainings were conducted by West African Bioethics Training Program faculty members from January 2016 to date. Institution Date Attendance Participants Training type The Federal Medical Center, Abuja. Mar. 4 – 5 57 Members of the Ethics Committee and staff of the hospital. Health Management and Ethics Course IRRUA Specialist teaching hospital, Edo…

Students and Faculty Training Rev. Fr. Olakunle Ewuoso – a graduate of W.A.B, received partial scholarship to attend Santander Scholarship workshop on theories and application organised by the Center for Ethics Education New york, from the 24th – 26th May 2016. He published an article on Bioethics Development in Nigeria, the article has been published…

The Center for Bioethics and Research (West African Bioethics Training Program) announces new courses in Research Administration and Coordination As modern research grows in size and complexity, researchers, research organizations and institutions continue to appreciate the need for staff who have training in Research Administration and Research Coordination. In order to meet this need, we…

WAB collaborates with Global Health Reviewers to trail and assess the “Reviewing Genomics Research” Course with ethics committees in Nigeria. The ‘Reviewing Genomics Research’ course is available online, free of charge, and in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese. Please read the story about the “Reviewing Genomics Research” course here and how to register at: http://www.cggh.org/collaborations/global-health-reviewers

Bioethics Seminar Meeting – Use of Community Guide and Autonomous Decision Making In International Health Research Faculty members and students of the West African Bioethics Training Program (WAB) as well as other students and staffs of the University of Ibadan gathered on the 31st of January 2014 between 3 and 4 p.m. for the Bioethics…

Bioethics: protecting lives in service to research By Steve GoldsteinBioethics and the protection of human subjects are the foundation that enables clinical research. The combination of the globalization of the biomedical industry, outsourcing of clinical trials to developing countries to cut costs and avoid regulation, and the surge in research activity to address HIV and…

Ethics of Biomedical Health Research A three days workshop was organised by the Institute of Public Health, Obafemi Awolowo University in partnership with New HIV Vaccine and Microbicide Advocacy Society. The training curriculum was accredited by the National Health Research Ethics Committee (NHREC/TR/05/02/2012) and the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria. The theme of the…