# Fogarty African Bioethics Consortium Post-Doctoral Fellowship Program

> **NIH NIH D43** · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · 2021 · $242,150

## Abstract

The Fogarty African Bioethics Consortium Post-Doctoral Fellowship (FABC-PDF) program will
provide advanced, postdoctoral training in bioethics to ten individuals with existing track records in both
bioethics and research from within institutions of the African Bioethics Consortium (ABC). The ABC is an
international collaboration of four research intensive institutions – University of Botswana, University of
Zambia, Makerere University (Uganda) and Johns Hopkins University (JHU) – that together have pursued
coordinated activities, for more than five years, to enhance individual and institutional bioethics capacity in
sub-Saharan Africa. The FABC-PDF builds on 17 years of bioethics capacity development in Africa that
JHU has provided through prior Fogarty awards. Selected trainees for the new post-doctoral program will
be individuals well-positioned to become leading faculty in bioethics and research in their institutions and
within the African continent. Post-doctoral training in bioethics is a necessary and natural next step in
bioethics program building for the three African consortium universities, where programs in bioethics are
being created, but deeper scholarship and leadership skills are needed among key faculty to ensure the
highest quality, internationally recognized, and locally-driven ethics programs in Africa. Local impact and
relevance is supported through the involvement of Co-PI Dr. Nelson Sewankambo of Makerere University,
who will lead the oversight of Africa-based fellowship activities. Post-doctoral training in bioethics is a well-
established path for in-depth, rigorous knowledge and skill-building to those with clear professional
accomplishment as demonstrated by the prior completion of doctoral training. Indeed, at JHU we have
provided post-doctoral training in bioethics to a highly select and interdisciplinary group of scholars for 25
years, focusing mainly on “northern” bioethics. The proposed 18-month post-doctoral program will be
globally oriented and include one academic year (nine months) at JHU, completely embedded in a rich
and rigorous bioethics and research environment, meeting regularly with U.S. and African peer trainees
around multiple topics in bioethics and research, and then working closely and individually with a team of
mentors to develop an individualized training plan and research project. The next six months of training
are spent completing a supported research project, and the last two months are spent in a different
African consortium country from one's own to foster networking and provide dedicated mentored writing
time to completion of a manuscript. The three PIs, from JHU and Africa, together have decades of
experience both conducting internationally recognized independent scholarship in research ethics,
bioethics, and global health, and, in mentoring dozens of doctoral and post-doctoral students. Leveraging
our longstanding commitments, experiences, and relationships, we propose a collaborative pos...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10161879
- **Project number:** 5D43TW010512-05
- **Recipient organization:** JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** ADNAN A HYDER
- **Activity code:** D43 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $242,150
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2017-06-01 → 2023-02-28

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10161879

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10161879, Fogarty African Bioethics Consortium Post-Doctoral Fellowship Program (5D43TW010512-05). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-25 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10161879. Licensed CC0.

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