Welcome

  This website will provide you with information about our bioethics training project, Strengthening Bioethics Capacity and Justice in Health. The project is financially supported by the Fogarty International Center of the NIH, and our collaborating partners are the University of Louvain ( Belgium) and the Kinshasa School of Public Health (Democratic Republic of Congo)

   The overall aim of our project is to enhance bioethics education, research and capacity for ethical review of health-related research in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Francophone Africa.

  A select group of Congolese scholars will be trained in research and medical ethics at the University of Louvain and UNC-Chapel Hill, and then return to Kinshasa to create a new bioethics center at the Kinshasa School of Public Health.

  The new bioethics center at the Kinshasa School of Public Health aims to have local, regional and international impact. Its tasks will include integrating courses of biomedical and research ethics into the MPH degree program at the Kinshasa School of Public Health, providing bioethics workshops for regional health centers, establishing a bioethics research resource center, offering bioethics consultation to health organizations, and conducting independent bioethics research.

  In the fourth year of the project, the Kinshasa Bioethics Center will host an intensive bioethics workshop inviting scholars from throughout Francophone Africa. The center will also establish its own website.

  Besides highlighting our project, this website aims to raise awareness of global bioethical issues and foster dialogue about the ethical conduct of research in developing countries. Visit and contribute to our bioethics blog, which offers bioethics news and commentary focusing on the developing world.

  To find further information on our project, click on the Congolese postage stamps located on the bottom of each webpage, such as the one below:

Background: why bioethics for Francophone Africa?