The WAB supported postgraduate degree program in
bioethics at the University of Ibadan is a comprehensive
multidisciplinary modular training program in
international research bioethics designed for mid-career
professionals who are members of health research ethics
committees or institutional review boards/committees in
their institution, lecturers or individuals that their
institutions nominate to develop institutional education
programs in bioethics, health research committee
administrators and others who are interested in research
ethics. The training is provided by faculty from
University of Ibadan, Dominican Institute and
international leaders in bioethics from around the
world.
The goal of this program is to create a cadre of
individuals capable of serving at the highest levels in
institutional health research ethics committees,
administer health research ethics committees, train
others in the principles of modern research ethics,
conduct research in research ethics and provide ethics
consultation.
The program consists of core programs in informed
consent, research ethics and ethics committees’
functions and administration, culture, religion and
ethics, research designs, research methods, teaching and
writing methods in bioethics and ethics and research
integrity.
Non-core programs include ethics in international
collaborative research, ethical issues in reproductive
and population health, negotiation and conflict
resolution, health law and bioethics, human rights, law
and bioethics, clinical bioethics, environmental ethics,
ethics of research in children, ethics of community
based research, bioethics and biotechnology, public
health ethics, ethics of research in vulnerable
populations and mass emergencies, ethics and social and
behavioral research, neuroethics, good clinical and
laboratory practices.
A limited number of scholarships are available to
students of West African origin who meet the criteria
for admission into the degree program at the University
of Ibadan.
