A Worldwide Week at Harvard Event

 

Strengthening Rwanda’s Research Ethics Review Capacity

 

Remarks by Jane Barrow, Associate Dean, Global and Community Health

Panelists:

Nir Eyal, MA, DPhil

Associate Professor of Global Health and Population, Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health 

Bernard Friedland, BChD, MSc, JD

Associate Professor of Oral Medicine, Infection, and Immunity, Harvard School of Dental Medicine

Donna Hackley, DMD, MA

Instructor, Oral Health Policy & Epidemiology, Harvard School of Dental Medicine

Daniel Wikler, PhD

Professor of Ethics and Population Health, Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health

When: Thursday, October 25th 2018 
Where: REB Auditorium and Lobby

Panel & Discussion: 4:45PM-5:45PM

Reception: 5:45PM-6:30PM

RSVP required to: hsdm_gch@hsdm.harvard.edu 

DESCRIPTION 
Over the past few years Rwanda has made great strides in improving its health system, in clinical training, teaching and in research. This accentuated the need for enhancing capacity in research ethics oversight. With the aid of a Fogarty grant, Dr. Bernard Friedland from the Harvard School of Dental Medicine and Drs. Nir Eyal and Dan Wikler from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health are training a cohort of Rwandan fellows from a variety of healthcare backgrounds in research ethics. They will present this effort, featuring the Fellows—who happen to be at Harvard during Worldwide Week. Dr. Donna Hackley from the Harvard School of Dental Medicine has been assisting in the establishment of Rwanda’s first dental school. She will kick off the discussion by sharing some of the challenges in starting a dental school in a developing country, as well as the satisfaction of doing so.