Pauline Osamor’s interest in bioethics developed as a consequence of her previous training in Sociology and Health Education as well as her work experience in biomedical research. In 1989, she graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Sociology from Bendel State University in Ekpoma, Nigeria. Her research project on Mother’s Education and Infant Mortality was her first formal introduction to some of the issues that lie at the core of research ethics, including the difficulty of assuring participants of the study’s confidentiality. Ms. Osamor subsequently went on to complete a Masters in Public Health with a focus on Health Education at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria. For the past five years, Ms. Osamor has held the role of Project Manager for Chronic Disease Research at the Institute of Child Health, University of Ibadan. This experience has given her the opportunity to work in human research that has involved various categories of participants in both a clinical and community setting. Her research work has instilled an appreciation for the importance of conducting biomedical research within a framework of good ethics. Ms. Osamor intends to come away from the Training Program with the tools and expertise to further explore how she can apply health education principles to the framework of bioethics and specifically, how these two disciplines could lead to interventions, including the application of informed consent in a setting where men are the decision makers. She also hopes to use this training as a foundation towards achieving a doctorate in bioethics in the future. | 
