• Dennis Amajuoyi Ndububa, Akinjide Olurotimi Ogundokun, Oluwagbemiga Oluwole Ayoola, Adebanjo Babalola Adeyemi, Rahman Ayodele Bolarinwa, Taiwo Olumuyiwa Ogundipe, Abdulkadir Ayo Salako, Aaron Oladiipo Aboderin, Olusegun Temitope Afolabi, Anthony Taiwo Adenekan, Ige Oluwatosin Taiwo, and Oluwabanke Gold Akanbi.
• Department of Medicine, Faculty of Clinical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Nigeria.
• Afr Health Sci. 2023 Sep 1; 23 (3): 741747741-747.

BackgroundAfrican contribution to global research output is said to be low. Poor funding and poor skills in grant writing have been suggested as important factors for this situation.ObjectivesApplications for research ethics clearance in a hospital were reviewed to have an overview of the planned studies and the proportion of them that attracted national and international funding.MethodsA review of all applications for ethical clearance received by the institutional review board of a university teaching hospital at Ile-Ife, Nigeria, from 2016 to 2020. They were analysed according to study nature, scope, purpose, and sponsorship using descriptive statistics presented as frequency tables and charts.ResultsA total of 878 applications were reviewed. There were 803 (91.5%) applications for local, 45 (5.1%) for national multicentre, and 30 (3.4%) for international multicentre studies. Applications for medical fellowship were 352 (40.0%) while 208 (23.8%) were from academic staff for non-degree research. There were 610 (69.5%) applications for self-sponsored studies. Only 18 (2.0%) and 26 (3.0%) received sponsorship from national and international donor agencies, respectively.ConclusionsLocal studies formed the bulk of the submissions for ethics clearance. National and international donor funding of research is abysmally low in this Nigerian tertiary institution studied.© 2023 Ndububa DA et al.

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