The first-ever Ghana Research Ethics Network (GREN) Conference has been held in Accra.
The Conference which will be held annually kick-started at the end of a five-year grant period by the Research Integrity Training Program (RITP), a partnership between the New York University Grossman School of Medicine and the University of Ghana at the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences on March 3, 2023.
The conference is aimed at building sustainable research ethics and integrity capacity across the nation.
GREN also serves as a platform where stakeholders present their research regarding research ethics and integrity, to discuss how their training from the proposed program can meaningfully impact and benefit their careers, their students, and their research, as well as to enhance the profile of clinical, genomic, and public health research in Ghana and neighbouring countries.
The move to sustain networks of research ethicists and well-trained researchers, according to organisers of the conference, is ultimately to produce more reliable research so as to improve health and deliver better healthcare in the region.
Professor of Public Health at the University of Ghana, Amos Laar speaking on behalf of the Dean of the School of Public Health, Prof. Kwasi Torpey, disclosed that “Training 30 Fellows in Research Integrity from 18 disciplines and recruiting 30 MSc Students from 13 disciplines into our MSc. Bioethics Program, we have essentially achieved the goals of our project.
