Caribbean Research Ethics Education Initiative - CREEi
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CREEi is an NIH-funded program to provide graduate-level education in ethics to trainees from independent low- and middle-income countries in the Caribbean
The Caribbean Research Ethics Education Initiative, offered by Clarkson in partnership with St. George's University (Grenada) and the Autonomous University of Queretaro (Mexico), provides graduate-level education in research ethics for fellows from the independent nations that border the Caribbean Basin. Instruction is provided in either English or Spanish. The Caribbean Research Ethics Education
Initiative is supported by NIH Research Grant R25 TW R25 TW9731, funded by the Fogarty International Center, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, and the National Institute on Drug Abuse. It uses a hybrid online-onsite approach to train clinicians, scientists, academics, lawyers and administrators to become research ethicists, advocates for human research subject protection and institutional and national leaders in their home countries. In addition, the program aims to provide public, online resources on research ethics for the Caribbean Basin, and to develop St. George's University and the Autonomous University of Queretaro as a regional Centers of Excellence in international bioethics and research ethics. In the process, the Program will train and mentor faculty from the Caribbean to continue this program when the grant period is ended. Three levels of training will be offered: a three-course Certificate program, an additional three-course Diploma program for committed trainees, and a Masters of Science in Bioethics option for top students offered by the Bioethics Program of Clarkson and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Clarkson credit will be granted for all courses offered in three-course Certificate program and three-course Diploma program. The Program is open to anyone from eligible countries in the region who are involved in administering, conducting or teaching research methods or research ethics. This includes bioethicists, biomedical scientists, ethics committee members, lawyers, managers, nurses, philosophers, physicians, researchers and social scientists. Individuals working or teaching in public institutions are especially encouraged to apply. Eligible candidates must be residents of one of the 20 independent low- or middle-income countries in the Caribbean Basin: Belize, Columbia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and Suriname.
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Job Opening: Doctoral position in practical philosophy with a focus on bioethics, antibiotic resistance and the environment (Dept of Philosophy, Linguistics & Theory of Science, University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
The University of Gothenburg will fund one well-qualified and highly motivated candidate to conduct research on bioethical issues in collaboration with supervisors and other researchers within EDAR. The output may include single- as well as co-authored publications, and some of these may be multidisciplinary, involving collaboration with environmental, health and social science researchers. The successful candidate is expected to address questions regarding what ethical positions to advance related to the environmental dimensions of the antibiotic resistance challenge and how these may affect incentive structures of importance for this area. This may include conceptual analysis, understanding of interest-, norm- and value conflicts, and design of proposed solutions to such conflicts, as well as practical measures to be taken in the light of this.
The successful candidate’s main responsibilities will be to write a doctoral dissertation in the area mentioned above, and to complete obligatory course work. He or she may also undertake a limited amount of teaching, administration or research not directly connected to her or his dissertation topic. Such duties extend the position accordingly.
The successful candidate is expected to conduct the main part of the assignment in Gothenburg, and to participate in the department’s activities, such as workshops and seminars. She or he is also expected to participate in EDAR activities, and to contribute to research and related activities within CARe. Apart from the salary, the department of philosophy, linguistics and theory of science, as well as both EDAR and CARe, offer extra funds for conference travel, research visits abroad, and so on.
For more information and to apply, click on the link below.
10/06/2019
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