The Ghana Experience |
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Authors: | Paulina Tindana Okyere Boateng |
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Institution: | 1. Navrongo Health Research Centre, Ghana Health Service, P.O. Box?114, Navrongo, Ghana 2. NMIMR, University of Ghana, P.O. Box LG581, Legon, Ghana
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Abstract: | This article featuring Ghana constitutes one of five articles in a collection of essays on local capacity-building in research ethics by graduates from the University of Toronto’s Joint Centre for Bioethics MHSc in Bioethics, International Stream programme funded by the Fogarty International Center for Advanced Study in the Health Sciences (FIC). Although there are no national ethical guidelines in Ghana, eight research ethics committees have been established in the country, with a number of them obtaining Federal Wide Assurances (FWA) from the United States Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP).However, the existing ethics committees cannot match the volume of work to be done, especially in light of the increase of research activities in the country. This calls for the need to train more people in research ethics to fill that gap and provide continuing education to members of research ethics committees in the country. |
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