Dear Prof. Helen Lauer,

Kindly assist to get a partner we can work jointly in an application for NIH by forwarding this message. Since you are a member of our Department and work in the area of Public Health Ethics, this may be very interesting to you as well. We already have networks with various medical schools, health institutes, and hospitals in Tanzania.  The only Teaching Medical University conducting Bioethics training in Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences with an MA and PHD while outsourcing our Department faculty members to teach. Nevertheless our interest is not mainly on the research ethics alone, which is also still less covered as we have many Health Institutes uncovered and hospitals without ethical committees/boards, managed by the Ministry of Health or privately (mostly owned by religious institutions). Rather our focus is mainly on integrity of Healthcare practitioners. 

As you are aware of our interest to get funding for academic training and research, we have developed a concept note on "Bioethics Research and Training for Healthcare Practitioners in Tanzania," with a focus on nurses, clinicians and pharmacists. The preliminary literature review, interviews, and media reports reveal that healthcare practitioners encounter ethical dilemmas in their day-to-day activities, and unfortunately in their training they are hardly exposed to Bioethics and Medical ethics training, thus leading to negligence of ethics and integrity in healthcare clinical practice. The project will focus on training junior academic staff, students in particular nurses, clinicians, and pharmacists, community engagement, and healthcare practitioners already in the field and other activities allowed by NIH call. The interest is to apply for the NIH call by integrating activities and research focusing both on the partner's interest and that of our Department so that we jointly work in the application process. If any of your network finds this interesting, kindly ask them to respond soon so that we join together in the application process. The deadline for the application is early June 2021. We have already developed a concept note and can share. 

I appreciate your help.