The University of Maryland School of Nursing's Veronica P.S. Njie-Carr, PhD, RN, ACNS-BC, FWACN, associate professor, has been awarded $1.18 million from the Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health to strengthen capacity in health research ethics and methodology in the country.

A member of the Center for Global Engagement's Advisory Committee, Njie-Carr was awarded a
President's Global Impact Fund (PGIF) seed grant that supported the beginning work on developing Gambia’s capacity efforts, such as holding virtual workshops and conducting surveys to gather data for the Fogarty grant application.

As part of the project, faculty from the UM Schools of Nursing and Medicine; the University of The Gambia; and the Medical Research Council, Gambia Unit will collaborate to extend the work of the PGIF grant to develop a research ethics and methods certificate program in Gambia as a foundation for subsequent expansion to a master’s program.

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