Useful Links and Training program - National Health Research Ethics Committee

Training Program

These are the training programs currently approved by the NHREC, other programs that satisfy the Committee's requirements in terms of content and evaluation methods will be listed as they become available. Providers of online training in informed consent and other aspects of bioethics may wish to contact the NHREC at deskofficer@nhrec.net so that their programs can be evaluated and if found satisfactory, listed on this page

CITI Program

Free Online Bioethics Training Program! 

Now Includes Good Clinical Practice (GCP) and “Students in Research" modules.

Click on the link below, under “All others" look for West African Bioethics Training Program and register to participate. You will have to indicate whether you are a student, researcher or member of Institutional Review Board, and whether you are in biomedical or behavioral and social sciences field.

How to complete the CITI-IRB training program

West African Bioethics training Program

      West African Bioethics Training Program supported MSc, MPhil/PhD

      program in Bioethics at the University of Ibadan

• West African Bioethics Training Program launches its postgraduate degree programs in Bioethics at the University of Ibadan

• WAB aims to take advantage of the rich cultural and colonial heritage of West Africa to develop robust research, training and service programs in Bioethics in West Africa.

• This postgraduate program aims to build capacity for the ethical review of health research and to strengthen the capacity of the Ethics Committees in institutions throughout West Africa.

• Furthermore, this program aims to produce bioethics experts who can contribute to the global bioethics discourse from a West African perspective

• The degree program is designed to run in modules so that each course can also be taken as a standalone short course by those interested.

Please visit  West African Bioethics Postgraduate training program  for more information.

Useful Links

• European Ethics Network  

• European Bioethical Research

• Helsinki Declaration

• West African Bioethics

• Bioethics Resources on the Web

• The Wellcome Trust Biomedical Ethics Programme

• Bioethics Information Retrieval Project

• National Information Resource on Ethics and Human Genetics  

• Research Ethics and Environmental Health  

• Central office for Research Ethics Committee, UK

• Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP)

• Office of Research Integrity

• Ethics and Reproductive Health   

• BioethicsWeb

• European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies  

• Office for Human Research Protection

• Tuskegee University National Center for Bioethics

• SciDev.Net Ethics of Research dossier

• Nuffield Council on Bioethics

• CIOMS guidelines

• Belmont Report

• Emanuel E. et al What makes clinical research ethical?"  

• Emanuel E. et al What makes clinical research in developing countries ethical?