title: Research ethics training in Peru: a case study.
abstract: With the rapidly increasing number of health care professionals seeking international research experience, comes an urgent need for enhanced capacity of host country institutional review boards (IRB) to review research proposals and ensure research activities are both ethical and relevant to the host country customs and needs. A successful combination of distance learning, interactive courses and expert course instructors has been applied in Peru since 2004 through collaborations between the U.S. Naval Medical Research Center Detachment, the University of Washington and the Department of Clinical Bioethics of the National Institutes of Health to provide training in ethical conduct of research to IRB members and researchers from Peru and other Latin American countries. All training activities were conducted under the auspices of the Peruvian National Institute of Health (INS), Ministry of Health. To date, 927 people from 12 different Latin American countries have participated in several of these training activities. In this article we describe our training model.
authors.affiliation: United States Naval Medical Research Center Detachment, Lima, Peru. Roxana.Lescano@med.navy.mil
authors.forename: A Roxana
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Lescano
authors.forename: David L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Blazes
authors.forename: Silvia M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Montano
authors.forename: Zoe
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Moran
authors.forename: Cesar
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Naquira
authors.forename: Edwin
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ramirez
authors.forename: Reidar
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lie
authors.forename: Gregory J
authors.initials: GJ
authors.lastname: Martin
authors.forename: Andres G
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Lescano
authors.forename: Joseph R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Zunt
mesh_terms: D026688:Bioethical Issues; D035843:Biomedical Research; D004501:Education, Medical; D028744:Ethics Committees, Research; D032984:Ethics, Research; D006805:Human Experimentation; D006801:Humans; D009316:National Institutes of Health (U.S.); D010568:Peru; D012108:Research Personnel; D013663:Teaching; D014481:United States