40 - Igniting Efficiency Through a Speak Up Culture with Center for Bioethics and Research's Chinonso Adolphus Ugwu

Your host, Sri Chellappa, talks with the Administrator of Center for Bioethics and Research, Chinonso Adolphus Ugwu. The Center for Bioethics and Research (CBR) which now includes the West African Bioethics Training Program (WAB) was established in 2004 through a grant from the Fogarty International Center(FIC) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), with the overarching goal of building bioethics capacity in West Africa. It does this by combining modern bioethics with the exploration of the religious, socio-cultural, and colonial heritage of West Africa and uses the result to engage in bioethical inquiry and contribute to the global discourse on bioethics.The practical avenues to achieve this are through promoting awareness of bioethics within the health research community, offering postgraduate training in bioethics, and providing training and support to research ethics committees in West Africa. The establishment of the Bioethics program was led by Professor Clement Adebamowo, who galvanized the nascent bioethics community in Nigeria to take advantage of emerging global opportunities in bioethics. The program was established in response to a variety of developments in biomedical research and bioethics locally and internationally. The program started with a cross-sectional survey of biomedical researchers in West Africa to document the need for training, advocacy, and building awareness of research ethics. The respondents were quite enthusiastic about the prospect of such a program and quickly came together to implement it.To learn more about Chinonso's work, click HERE and HERE.Think you'd be a great guest on the show? Apply HERE.Want to learn more about Sri's work at Engagedly? Check out his website at https://engagedly.com/.