Training

The major objective of the Fogarty African Bioethics Training Program is to establish and support collaborative training partnerships with institutions in sub-Saharan Africa to support the development of institutional capacity in research ethics and bioethics.

The institutional partnership provides a combination of individual-level training and mentorship in bioethics for professionals from partner institutions – with training occurring both at Johns Hopkins University and at partner African institutions – and strategic planning to enhance the quality and efficiency of research ethics systems at partner institutions. Thus, the goal is to collaboratively facilitate the pursuit of institutional bioethics objectives to improve local capacity and sustain bioethics initiatives that are identified to be of critical importance in Africa.

For more information, visit the Berman Institute’s Global Health Ethics page, or contact Berman Institute faculty member Joe Ali.

Open to undergraduate students interested in the ethics of science, clinical care and/or public health, the Johns Hopkins Genomics and Society Mentorship Program is a 15-month hybrid in-person/remote program that begins with a 10-week summer internship program. Through the Mentorship Program, these students will gain experience doing research centered on the ethical, legal and social implications (ELSI) of genomics.

Visit the Program webpage for more information.

In 2018, the Berman Institute initiated a new collaboration with the University of Malaya (UM) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to establish a Master of Health Research Ethics (MOHRE) program at UM (MOHRE).

Visit the Berman Institute’s MOHRE page.

Visit UM’s MOHRE page.

With support from a five-year FIC-NIH grant awarded to Dr. Sugarman (BI) and Dr. Kamarulzaman (UM), the initiative will seek to establish the first bioethics-related master’s program in Malaysia by leveraging the collective strengths of JHU and UM program faculty. The collaboration is designed to produce a phased transfer of knowledge, skills and expertise from JHU to UM, while providing Master’s degree training in research ethics to 40 individuals from Malaysia and Southeast Asia.

The Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics (JHU) in conjunction with the Bioethics Chair at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) have launched a new initiative called the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Bioethics Academy (SNFBA). The SNFBA is funded by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation and was created with the intent to support and enhance knowledge and awareness for bioethics in Greece.

The three main components of the SNFBA are:

1. An intensive bioethics summer course offered every June, beginning in 2019, in Athens, Greece;
2. Annual in-depth workshops alternating between Zurich, Switzerland (hosted at ETH) and Baltimore, USA (hosted by JHU), beginning winter 2021;
3. An alumni network that provides ongoing connections with other Greek bioethics professionals, resources and information through a dedicated website, and virtual discussions via webinar.

Visit the SNFBA website to learn more and apply.