Our masters’ degree program will lead to the creation of
a cadre of bioethics experts who can provide training at
institutional level, staff health research ethics
committees, review research protocols, conduct research
and help to shape ethics and biomedical research policy.
Among the expected impact of
our training program is an increase in the contribution
of researchers from developing countries to the global
discourse on Bioethics. This is currently low and has
not shown a significant upward trend in the past decade;
though this is not peculiar to bioethics. Programs that
give regional experts the opportunity of joint
participation in supervision, research and mentoring of
students are likely to lead to an increase in the
contribution from West Africa to the bioethics
literature. Global bioethics discourse will benefit from
the contributions of developing countries bioethicists,
particularly females, Muslims and animists.
