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The Global Health Bioethics Network Summer School The Global Health Bioethics Network, c/o The Ethox Centre, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 7LF, United Kingdom. Email: [email protected] 1 Global Health Bioethics Network 2015 Summer School Participants Serebe Abay: BSc in Public Health and MPH in General Public Health. He has worked as Clinical Officer and Medical director in outpatients, maternal and child health, health promotion and disease prevention, malnutrition management, as a coordinator for surveillance and vaccine campaigns, and a clinical mentor in HIV/AIDS. More recently he worked at Ethiopian Social Health Insurance as the Medical Services Quality Assurance head. Currently he is Assistant Researcher in the Technology Transfer and Research Translation Directorate of the Ethiopian Public Health Institution. His Master’s thesis was entitled ‘Effects of Rapid Ethical Assessment on Study Recruitment, Study Comprehension and Quality of Informed Consent in low income and resource limited setting’ funded by the Wellcome Trust, and his advisors were Dr. Adamu Addissie and Professor Gail Davey, Brighton and Sussex Medical School (BSMS), UK. He is interested in biomedical research ethics related to improving the quality of informed consent information and participant comprehension in low literacy and low income populations through community engagement. [email protected] Vibian Angwenyi works as a research officer with the Department of Public Health Research, KEMRI/Wellcome Trust Research Programme-Kilifi. She graduated with a BA Sociology degree from Moi University-Kenya and an MSc in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Her research interests include the ethics of biomedical research in particular, examining informed consent and community engagement processes. Previous research work has been on documenting issues arising from ethical review processes in local and national review bodies for KEMRI research protocols; examining community engagement and consent processes for a malaria vaccine trial involving children; and more recently exploring the impact of clinical trials on Health Systems, with case studies of malaria vaccine trials in Kenya, Ghana and Burkina Faso. [email protected]
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The Global Health Bioethics Network Summer School
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Global Health Bioethics Network 2015 Summer School Participants
Serebe Abay: BSc in Public Health and MPH in General Public Health. He has worked as Clinical Officer and Medical director in outpatients, maternal and child health, health promotion and disease prevention, malnutrition management, as a coordinator for surveillance and vaccine campaigns, and a clinical mentor in HIV/AIDS. More recently he worked at Ethiopian Social Health Insurance as the Medical Services Quality Assurance head. Currently he is Assistant Researcher in the Technology Transfer and Research Translation Directorate of the Ethiopian Public Health Institution. His Master’s thesis was entitled ‘Effects of Rapid Ethical Assessment on Study Recruitment, Study
Comprehension and Quality of Informed Consent in low income and resource limited setting’ funded by the Wellcome Trust, and his advisors were Dr. Adamu Addissie and Professor Gail Davey, Brighton and Sussex Medical School (BSMS), UK. He is interested in biomedical research ethics related to improving the quality of informed consent information and participant comprehension in low literacy and low income populations through community engagement. [email protected] Vibian Angwenyi works as a research officer with the Department of Public Health Research, KEMRI/Wellcome Trust Research Programme-Kilifi. She graduated with a BA Sociology degree from Moi University-Kenya and an MSc in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Her research interests include the ethics of biomedical research in particular, examining informed consent and community engagement processes. Previous research work has been on documenting issues arising from ethical review processes in local and national review bodies for KEMRI research protocols; examining community engagement and consent processes for a malaria vaccine trial involving children; and more recently exploring the impact of clinical trials on Health Systems, with case studies of malaria vaccine trials in Kenya, Ghana and Burkina Faso. [email protected]
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Susan Bull is the Senior Researcher in Ethics of Genomics and Global Health in the MRC Centre for Genomics and Global Health and The Ethox Centre, University of Oxford. She is also the editor of GlobalHealthReviewers.org. Susan’s research interests include international healthcare research ethics and in particular, the appropriate design and conduct of consent processes, and genomic research and ethical review of research. For recent publications in this area see http://www.ethox.org.uk/ethox-members/susan-bull. Susan holds bachelors degrees in genetics and in
law, and studied for her MA and PhD at the Centre of Medical Law and Ethics, King’s College London. As Assistant Director of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, she was responsible for the Council’s Working Party report on the ethics of research related to healthcare in developing countries, and worked on other topics as diverse as GM crops and stem cell research. Susan’s PhD thesis focused on designing context-appropriate consent processes in developing countries, and during this period she also developed an award-winning dossier on research ethics in developing countries for SciDev.Net. [email protected] Mary Chambers has a PhD in mosquito transmission dynamics from University of Cambridge. She went on to a post-doctoral position at Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Oxford and then to Oxford University Clinical Research HCMC, Vietnam in 2000. In 2006 she moved into a training role and has developed a training programme for local scientists & clinicians. Mary is also responsible for public engagement at the Unit and helping integrate engagement into OUCRU research studies. Recent PE projects include developing science theatre shows with scripts about enteric disease & antibiotic resistance and dengue transmission. She coordinates Science Cafes at local universities and projects using digital story telling techniques to understand perceptions of local research communities. Her research interests include investigating how perceptions of risk influence behavior in relation to infectious diseases. Projects partners include the Wellcome Trust, Fact & Fiction Film, Sanofi Espoir Foundation and local government Department of Health Education. [email protected]
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Phaik Yeong Cheah, a University Research Lecturer of Oxford University is based in Bangkok at the Wellcome Trust Major Overseas Programme. She is currently the head of a new department, called the Department of Bioethics and Engagement. The department works on ethical issues arising from conducting research and working with vulnerable populations such as children,
pregnant women, migrants as well as other disadvantaged and hard-to-reach populations. The department’s remit also includes developing and managing the programme’s community and public engagement work either programme-wide (e.g. the recent poet-in-residence programme), location-specific (e.g. supporting the long running Tak Province Community Ethics Advisory Board), or study specific (e.g. community engagement in the targeted malaria elimination study). She is particularly interested in ethical issues in community engagement, data sharing, consent and assent in paediatric research. Prior to this, Phaik Yeong was the head of the Clinical Trials Support Group within the Programme for seven years. Before moving to Bangkok, she worked in the Clinical Trials & Research Governance office in Oxford. [email protected] Binh Doan (Doan Thi Le Binh): I graduated from Ho Chi Minh city University of Medicine and Pharmacy in 2009 with MD degree and have been working as a full-time employee at Department of Training, Research, Public Health and International Cooperation, Children’s Hospital 2 since then. My current position is a clinician as well as a coordinator and an instructor of training courses in site and outside of the hospital. In addition, I am involved in various cooperation projects, programs and other activities such as providing health education to non - medical participants, hosting professors and students from foreign countries, etc. I also participated in several studies including the study on characteristics of PICU patients and prognostic factors for mortality (2009), the feasibility of the content of the Pediatric first aid program for caregivers and teachers (2012), identifying and responding to child abuse and neglect: Child Injury Survey (in cooperation with The University of Sydney, Australia, 2013 – 2014), studies on uro-nephrologic diseases and birth defects (PIC project, in cooperation with the University Commission for Development CUD, Belgium and Pham Ngoc Thach University of Medicine, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam, 2009 - 2014). [email protected]
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Huynh Mieu Du: I graduated from Medicine and Pharmaceutical university in 2012 with Bachelor of Public Health. After graduation, I work as a research coordinator at Research Unit- Children Hospital 1. I view the research landscape as an interaction between the research sponsors, investigators, healthcare workers, ethical review boards. In addiction, I am a secretary of the ethics committee of CH1, writing minutes, inviting members of council and reporting the results. [email protected]
Bobbie Farsides: Professor of Clinical and Biomedical Ethics, Brighton and Sussex Medical School. Research Focus: ethical issues relating to healthcare, especially ante-natal screening and testing, reproductive technologies, palliative care and issues around death and dying. [email protected]
Mary Foulkes is the Ethox Centre Manager and Research Development Officer. Her role is to coordinate and facilitate the full range of research, teaching, and administrative activities of the Centre as well as helping to develop and implement the Centre’s strategic research goals and managing the development of its external profile. Mary has worked for the University of Oxford since 2009. Before joining Ethox she was based in the Cancer Epidemiology Unit as project coordinator for INDOX, a clinical and epidemiological research collaboration between the University of Oxford and 12 cancer
research institutions in India. It was in this context that she first became interested in global health research and ethics. She has been in post at Ethox for just over 6 months and is attending the Summer School to find out more about the research projects that are being carried out as part of the Global Health Bioethics Network, to meet members of the network and to learn more about ethics in the context of global health research. [email protected]
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Vo Thi Nhi Ha: I am currently working as an officer at Division of Clinical Trial Management, Vietnamese Ministry of Health. I am in charge of managing clinical trial including research on drug, biosimilar, bioavailibility and bioequivalence (BA/BE), stem cells, and new technologies. Clinical trial is a really new area in Vietnam and the number and the variety of clinical trials in Vietnam have been extremely increasing. Therefore, it
is a high demand on updating the world’s trend in my work to have the best performance. I think the Summer School is a great opportunity for me to meet and discuss with the researchers, policy makers, experts in the research ethics and clinical trial in order to keep learning on ethical issues; to meet the participants from different countries to set up networking with other nations later. [email protected] Rebecca Harvey completed her bachelor’s degree in International Relations in 2013, where she first took an interest in security, health development and ethics. After living and working in Asia for a year she embarked on a Master’s degree in Global Health at the Nuffield Department of Population Health, Oxford University. After expressing an interest in medical ethics over the past year she has also had the opportunity to attend various Ethox Centre events, under the direction of Michael Parker. She is currently working in Mae Sot at the SMRU under Rose McGready, conducting a cost effectiveness analysis of prevention methods for vertical transmission of Hepatitis B in the Myanmar boarder population. From September onwards she will be working as part of the UK civil service and hopes to specialize in health policy and security. [email protected]
Niva Joshi: I got my degree in B.Sc Nursing from B.P Koirala Institute Of Health Sciences, Nepal. Then I joined Oxford University Clinical Research Unit-Nepal in 2011 as a clinical research nurse. My main tasks are to look after the ethical approvals, essential documents of the studies in the research unit, to check the database of the studies and make it compatible with the requirements of the studies, to visit , to assist the microbiology scientists in carrying out laboratory procedures like DNA extraction, PCR, ALS, to enrol patients in clinical trials with proper counselling, to counsel patients regarding treatment, medicines, follow up,
disease progress and also to carry out the necessary investigations and archive all the inventories properly. [email protected]
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Dorcas Kamuya is a Researcher in Ethics and Community Engagement at the Global Health Bioethics Network. Her role includes: facilitating the strategic development of community engagement activities at the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Unit in Kilifi, Kenya; coordinating Global Health Bioethics Network activities aimed at encouraging the sharing of expertise in community engagement between the Wellcome Trust Major Overseas Programmes in Kenya, Thailand, Malawi, Vietnam, and South Africa; and developing and leading a research programme around the development and evaluation of methods of community engagement (CE). Dorcas has a PhD from the Open University, UK, 2013. Her PhD thesis, titled “Negotiating research participation in community-based studies: Fieldworkers’ roles, and implications for ethical practice”, drew on social science methodologies to explore the practical and ethical challenges fieldworkers at the interface of research implementation faced, and the systems they drew on to resolve and/or negotiate out of these challenges. Before joining the Ethox centre, Dorcas was employed at the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme. Her role as the Community Liaison Manager included setting-up mechanisms for engaging with over 260,000 residents often involved in health research, strengthening collaborative partnerships between KWTRP and key health stakeholders, providing support to research interface staff, and carrying out research. [email protected]
Maureen Kelley is Associate Professor of Ethics and Maternal, Neonatal, & Child Health at Ethox Centre in the Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford. Dr. Kelley’s research in clinical care and research ethics has focused on two vulnerable populations: orphans and other children living outside a stable family situation, and pregnant women living in low resource settings. Through qualitative research and ethical analysis she addresses ethical
problems that pose a barrier to improving the health of particularly vulnerable women and children, where heightened susceptibility to harm is due to social, political, or economic circumstances both in developing countries and among disadvantaged populations within high-income countries. [email protected]
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Angeliki Kerasidou is the Ethics Coordinator for MalariaGEN at the Ethox Centre, Oxford University. Her background is in theology and philosophy. She received her DPhil from Oxford University in 2009. Her thesis, jointly supervised by the Philosophy and Theology Faculties, was on theories of philosophical anthropology and the moral value of the human embryo in relation to stem cell research. Angeliki’s main philosophical interest is in non-consequentialist ethical theories. Currently, she is working in the area of research ethics and empirical ethics and her research interests include the ethics of genomic research in developing countries, ethics of research collaborations, post-research obligations, and theories of professionalism (professional virtues, duties and obligations) in research and medical practice. She is also leading a project looking at the effects of austerity measures on health provision in Greece. [email protected]
Patricia Kingori, PhD, is a Wellcome Trust Biomedical Society and Ethics Fellow and University Research Lecturer at the Ethox Centre, University of Oxford. She is a part of the Global Health Bioethics Network and is experienced in training researchers in qualitative research methods. Her disciplinary background is in Medical Sociology and her current research interests intersect the sociology of science and medicine, and a critical examination of ethics. Patricia is particularly interested in the frontline practitioners of biomedical research, the politics of health and the meaning of research and ethical guidelines in practice. Her work has
focused on the views, values and experiences of fieldworkers and similar frontline research staff involved in collecting data and interacting with research participants. This has taken place in East Africa but has recently extended its focus to South East Asia and West African countries. [email protected]
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Bernadette Kombo is a social scientist in HIV Key Population Studies in the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme in Kilifi, Kenya. Bernadette holds a bachelor’s degree in Anthropology and studied for her MSc Public Health – Health Promotion and MA in Peacebuilding at Leeds Beckett University and Coventry University respectively. Her research interests are in ethics of HIV prevention research as well as social science research methodology. She has been involved in HIV early diagnosis research and health systems strengthening for HIV testing, care and treatment for key populations. Her previous work involved HIV prevention interventions, and moving forward she is interested in intersecting HIV research and practice. [email protected]
Le Xuan Luat: I completed my PhD at the Nagasaki University, Tropical Medicine. Now I am working at the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases of Vietnam in Hanoi. My clinical work is HIV and other viruses treatment and it’s really interesting. I like to study about infectious diseases such as HIV, opportunistic infections and hepatitis. I participated in several studies that relate to HIV and opportunistic infections such as P.marneffei treatment, and effect of Cytomegalo virus treatment. I also joined some HCV clinical trial as study co-
ordinator. In the near future, I hope to start carrying out research on Tuberculosis multi drug resistance in HIV patients and the effect of level 2 ARV treatment and measuring the resistance of level 2 ARV treatment. [email protected] Regina Makwinja is a graduate of the University of Malawi with a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Science (Majoring in Sociology) in 2003. Regina is working as a Monitoring and Evaluation Officer for Malawi Liverpool welcome Trust in the Science Communication Department. Her role is to evaluate the Radio and the exhibition projects which are within the Science communication Department. She is a sociologist who by nature of her job as an M & E officer works with communities and other stakeholders trying to make sense of the data collected. She has been in the field of M & E for the last 8 years. Her interest in medical research is on communicating to the people the findings of medical
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research in a simple manner that everyone will understand and getting the views of people who are not researchers on what we can do to improve medical research. She is into community engagement as well as she collects information from the communities to help in the evaluation of the programmes. [email protected]
Vicki Marsh: My original training was in clinical medicine in the UK (MB ChB in 1978, MRCGP in 1986) and my main current interests are in social science, ethics and communication in international collaborative biomedical research (DPhil 2012). I have primarily worked in Africa, first at the UK Medical Research Council Laboratories in the Gambia (1982-85) and then at the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) - Wellcome Trust Research Programme in Kilifi, Kenya (1990-present time). My current post is in the Health Systems and Social Science Research Group in Kilifi, and I hold an appointment as a University Research Lecturer in the Nuffield Department of Medicine, Oxford University. My major research focus concerns social and ethical issues arising
across a large long-standing multidisciplinary research programme in Africa, including approaches to community engagement, fair benefits and informed consent. My recent D Phil thesis addressed researchers’ responsibilities for sharing genetic findings in studies, based on empirical research on testing for sickle cell disease. I support ethical and scientific review processes for new research proposals at the centre through a local scientific coordinating committee and a group reviewing informed consent processes. Other roles include social science and research ethics training at the centre for early career scientists, programme front-line staff and community representatives. [email protected] Mayfong Mayxay is the Head of Field Research at LOMWRU, Mahosot Hospital, Vientiane, Laos. His research interests include drug resistance in malaria, clinical epidemiology of Japanese encephalitis, dengue, scrub typhus, murine typhus, and also public health research particularly vaccine preventable diseases. Mayfong is also a lecturer at the University of Health Sciences, Vientiane, Laos. He was trained as a medical doctor in Laos and he got a Ph.D in tropical medicine from the Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Thailand. [email protected]
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Laura Merson is the Head of the Clinical Trials Unit at the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit Viet Nam (OUCRU) and is responsible for the governance and operations of research in the network of OUCRU Units. In addition to research management, the Clinical Trials Unit focuses on building capacity in study design, research implementation and research ethics across Asia. Laura’s main research interests include exploring issues in sharing biomedical research data and in changing the paradigm of clinical research in outbreaks and emerging infections. As an
executive member of the International Severe Acute Respiratory and emerging Infections Consortium (ISARIC), Laura has contributed to the development of standardized, open-access research protocols designed for outbreak response in collaboration with the World Health Organization. After 6 years in Viet Nam, Laura will be moving to Oxford to continue work on data sharing platforms for emerging infections research. [email protected] Sassy Molyneux, PhD, is employed by Oxford University and has been working as part of the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme in Kilifi, Kenya, since 1994. She currently co-leads the Health Systems and Social Science (HSSR) research group in Kilifi, and the governance theme on a DFID funded research consortium aimed at strengthening the responsiveness and resilience of health systems. Sassy's research work has focused on two main areas: the interface between health systems and households; and the interface between health researchers and communities. Her current main focus is on community accountability; producing new thinking, evidence and recommendations around strengthening community involvement in biomedical research and health delivery in sub-Saharan Africa. The health system-researcher interface work she is involved with constantly draws upon and feeds into on-going activities and guidelines with regards to consent, community engagement and benefit sharing within the research programme in Kenya. This work is therefore grounded in day to day practice and has immediate local relevance, as well as contributing to wider national and international debate and discussion. [email protected]
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Elvis Moyo: I work as a Senior Community Liaison Officer at Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Trust. After working in several studies as a Fieldworker, I joined the Science Communication department in 2011 and am responsible for Public/ Community Engagement which involves interacting with a broad range of audiences such as Community leaders, Government workers from different sectors, students and communities from both rural and urban settings. My interest lies in improving the understanding of medical research in both urban and rural settings where MLW research is conducted using a two way approach, and also improving the support rendered to
Fieldworkers involved in medical research at the Institution. [email protected] Ncengani Mthethwa (known as Ncengi) Abigail Mthethwa graduated from University of South Africa in 2010 in Community Health and Psychology (BSoSc). Ncengi enrolled for a PDM at the University of Stellenbosch, in collaboration with the Africa Centre for HIV and AIDS Management in Stellenbosch University in 2012. She obtained her Master’s degree with the University of Stellenbosch in 2013. All the fieldwork was carried out at the Africa Centre and from the Mpukunyoni community where she examined ‘Factors affecting refusal to participate in the HIV surveillance study, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa’ as her research topic. Having served the Centre for 15 years, Ncengi has acquired skills and knowledge and capacity to lead the Community Engagement Unit at the Africa Centre from April 2014. She works as Community Engagement Coordinator at the Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies. [email protected]
Neema Charity Mtunthama: I graduated in 2001 with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing, and a University Certificate in Midwifery from Kamuzu Collage of Nursing. I have completed my University of London Distance learning MSc, in CT course this year. I have worked with Malawi Ministry of Health for two years as a Sister in Charge at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH). In 2003, I joined Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme (MLW) where I have served as a clinical research coordinator, Nurse Manager and Clinical
Manager. Presently, I’m working as a Clinical Trials Coordinator. MLW introduced
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me to clinical research and achieved improving the quality of blood cultures at QECH. I have gained experience in; managing staff/stakeholders, conducting clinical research, and managing paediatric/adult patients acute care hospital setting. I am interested in taking a leading role in research governance (GCP/regulations/ clinical research ethics), and support investigations of safer anticonvulsants in cerebral malaria children to minimize neurological sequelae. [email protected]
Noni Mumba works for KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, in Kilifi Kenya as Head of Community Engagement. She joined the Programme in September 2013, and has about 10 years’ prior experience in communication and community development. She gained this experience from working with renowned international health NGOs such as PATH and PSI, across different parts of Kenya. She has expertise in developing communication strategies, social marketing, and managing community programs. Additionally, Noni contributed to the development of National Guidelines for the Basic Care Package for people living with HIV; participated in writing the 2011 HIV Testing and Counseling Kenya Report, as well as developed and spearheaded communication activities using interpersonal and mass media (TV/Radio) channels. Over the years, she has gained skills for engaging different types of communities, from top government officials at Ministry of Health, funders and donors to the local residents. As Head of Community Engagement at KWTRP, Noni’s role is important in ensuring that different types of communities are engaged appropriately and mutual understanding is enhanced across health research communities. Noni has a BSc in International Business Administration, and is writing up her Thesis for her MA in Communication. [email protected]
Farirai Mutenherwa: I am a PhD student at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) under the Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies. I hold an MScSoc. degree in Health Research Ethics (cum laude) from UKZN as well as an MSc. in Population Studies and a BSc. honours in Psychology both from the University of Zimbabwe. I have worked in various health research projects, which saw me develop a passion for the protection
of human subjects in research. My areas of interest include informed consent, community engagement and sexual and reproductive health. [email protected]
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Tinofa Mutevedzi is a Demographer, who holds an MSc (Population Studies) and has worked at the Africa Centre for Health and Population studies since 2003 as Head of Population Research Operations, responsible for strategic direction and coordination of research operational support for all population-based research projects, including oversight of the Data Centre and the Community Engagement Unit, as well as day-to-day management of the Centre’s population surveillance platform (DSS). Tinofa has over 18 years’ experience in designing data collection, data processing and quality assurance and quality control systems for studies ranging from large observational surveys and interventions to clinical trials. He trains research teams in Good Clinical Practice (GCP) and research ethics, using outcomes-based adult education approaches. Tinofa previously worked as Research Manager for the Manicaland HIV Prevention Project at the Biomedical Research and Training Institute in Zimbabwe and as a Clinical Trials Programme coordinator for UZ-UCSF Research Programme in Zimbabwe. He is interested in research on adolescent sexual and reproductive health, and is a PhD candidate at the University of Witwatersrand, studying social context as a source of vulnerability and resilience for adolescent reproductive health outcomes in rural South Africa. [email protected]
Salim Mwalukore holds a Bachelor of Science degree (BSc. Biological) and is currently enrolled in a Master of Arts Degree in Project Planning and Management. He has been working with the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Progamme in Kilifi, Kenya since 2008 with the Community Liaison Group, as the Community Liaison Manger. He manages a team that coordinates community engagement (CE) activities for research studies. These CE activities carried out at the centre and within the Kilifi Health
and Demographic Surveillance System (KHDSS) area in collaboration with the KHDSS area residents, aim to enhance mutual understanding between the research centre and the communities that participate in research. He coordinates study specific community engagement during study implementation. Salim sits in Protocol development meetings for planned studies to advice on community engagement for proposed new studies. He also sits in communication and consent committee that looks at how consenting process is communicated before studies are initiated. In addition he also sometimes supports research activities in the Department Public Health Research (DPHR) at the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust research programme, in Kilifi, Kenya. His interests revolve around research ethics and community engagement. [email protected]
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Nompilo Myeni: I have bachelor’s degree in psychology obtained at university of Zululand. I have also Post Graduate Diploma in Education. I have worked in Government department (Social Development ) as Youth Team Leader for 2 year , I then joined the research institution in 2010 (Africa Centre ), I been given number of opportunity to explore , as I have worked in a sexual behavior project as Research assistant (II) , I also worked in Treatment as prevention Project as Research Assistant Administrator and now I worked as Community engagement officer. In terms of interpersonal communication, I am responsive to my colleagues and am eager to help whenever possible. I am good at team-work, able to consider and analyze different opinions, and take the lead when necessary. I am good at persuading others by creating relationships based on mutual trust and understanding. [email protected]
Duy Phong Nguyen is an Associate professor at the Faculty of Public Health at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy in the Ho Chi Minh City and was a member of the Clinical Research Unit at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in the Ho Chi Minh City (from 1998 to 2011). Previously, he worked at the Botkin Hospital of Infectious Diseases. Duy Phong graduated from the I. I. Mechnikov State Academy of Medicine in St. Petersburg as a medical doctor in 1994 and completed his PhD in epidemiology and infectious diseases at the Academy in 1998. He also completed a joint (University of Medicine and Pharmacy / Vietnam and Boston University / USA) Master’s Programme in Family Medicine in 2009. [email protected]
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Maureen Wandia Njue: I’m a Research officer working at the KEMRI/Wellcome Trust research programme, Kilifi. I have currently taken up a new role of coordinating the activities of the research ethics group as well as conducting action research to support ethics across the Kilifi programme. I also serve as the Deputy-Chair of the Communication and Consent Committee (CCC), an Institutional review committee that reviews aspects of consent and communication for all new research proposals developed at the programme. I hold a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology from Maseno University, Kenya. Through a Strategic Award by the KEMRI/Wellcome Trust programme, Kilifi, I pursued a Master’s degree in Public Health (Health Services Research) at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in the United Kingdom. My main research interests are around research ethics with some of my previous and current work focusing on consenting processes. Currently, I’m working on developing assent form templates for research involving young participants (13-17years) for the range of studies at the programme. In 2012, I received a Global Health Bioethics Network (GHBN) Bursary to conduct an exploratory study on how benefits and payments in biomedical research should be planned for and implemented. [email protected]
Deborah Nyirenda: I am Doctoral student from the joint University of Liverpool and University of Malawi PhD Program. My doctoral research is funded by a Scholarship award from Wellcome Trust to investigate the relevance and benefits of community engagement in medical research. I hold a Masters Degree in International Public Health from Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK and I have 10 years' experience in community development and mixed methods research having worked for International Institutions such as PSI, World Relief Malawi and
Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Trust (MLW). More recently, I worked as a research scientist in the Social Science department at MLW where I took the lead to: evaluate a public engagement project through a health talk radio program 'Umoyo Nkukambirana' (Let's talk about health), assess the feasibility of implementing mHealth triage intervention and assess treatment seeking behaviour in response to Acute Bacterial Meningitis. [email protected]
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Michael Parker is Professor of Bioethics and Director of the Ethox Centre at the University of Oxford. Michael’s main research interest is in the day to day ethical aspects of collaborative global health research. He is particularly interested in the practical ethical issues arising in the everyday work of researchers, health professionals, and fieldworkers as they carry out global health research in collaboration with partners in many countries. These issues include: what are the responsibilities of researchers to the communities in which they carry out their research, and what are the ethical issues arising in collaborations between organisations, such as hospitals, Ministries of Health, research institutions and so on, which may have competing interests? Together with partners at the five Wellcome Trust Major Overseas Programmes (MOPs) in Kenya, Thailand, Malawi, Viet Nam, and South Africa, Michael has recently been awarded a Strategic Award to build ethics capacity and carry out ethics research across the MOPs. Mike also leads the ethics programme of the Malaria Genomic Epidemiology Network (MalariaGEN) which carries out genomic research into severe malaria in childhood at 24 sites in 21 countries and he also leads the ethics programme of the MRC Centre for Genomics and Global Health. [email protected]
Dung Nguyen Thi Phuong, PhD. has been working for Oxford University Clinical Research Unit (OUCRU) since 2001 and is currently the Head of Research Governance of the Clinical Trials Unit at OUCRU. She is responsible to ensure that all OUCRU research is executed with appropriate ethical and regulatory approval and that the conduct of the research is in compliance with these aprovals and relevant international and local guidelines. She manages the Monitoring, Administration and Ethics teams of the Clinical Trials Unit. [email protected]
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Oanh Kieu Nguyet Pham: I received my MD degree from Pham Ngoc Thach University of Medicine in 2008 and finished the Infectious diseases specialty residency program of Medicine and Pharmacy University in 2011. Since then, I have worked in Adult ICU in the Hospital for Tropical Diseases as principal doctor, directly providing treatment for severe cases, such as influenza with serious complications, severe Dengue infection, septic shock, tetanus, cirrhosis, etc. Besides clinical work, I am interested in medical science studies and research ethics. I am currently assistant secretary of the Institutional Review Board in my hospital and participate in some studies from observational to clinical trial studies and qualitative social research as well. [email protected]
Sreymom Pol: I am a research assistant of Cambodia Oxford Medical Research Unit (COMRU) Siem Reap, Cambodia. COMRU is a collaboration between the Angkor Hospital for Children (AHC) and Bangkok-based Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU). I graduated in 2013 with Bachelor of Science in Public health from Asian University for Women, Chittagong Bangladesh. I have worked for COMRU in clinical research for almost 2 years in both quantitative and qualitative studies. Currently, I am involving in Health perception, beliefs and practices
at the time of delivery and in the neonatal period in rural Cambodia. This study makes me want to understand ethics deeper. I would love to know the different of researchers and public community’s attitudes and expectations toward research and its ethics and what the causes to those differences are. [email protected]
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Lindsey Reynolds is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Stellenbosch University. Drawing on insights from a decade of work on global health, humanitarian intervention, and the lives of young people and families in rural South Africa, her research aims to interrogate the tensions inherent in processes of social reproduction and social change in the context of global health research and intervention in contemporary South Africa. In 2012, she completed a joint doctoral degree in Anthropology and Public Health at the Johns Hopkins University. Folding together ethnographic work with a group of young people and families in northeastern KwaZulu-Natal, ten years of surveillance data on the same families, and institutional ethnography with service providers, her doctoral dissertation describes how the lives of children and families have been constructed and depicted in the context of widespread concerns about the vulnerability of children affected by HIV/AIDS. Her long-term research interests are centered on investigating the social and ethical processes involved in the production of knowledge and implementation of programs and policies in global health. Her new research project explores the complex layers of relatedness, overlapping forms of authority, and everyday intimacies created by encounters and engagements between biomedical researchers and study participants in two sites of long-term biomedical research, extraction, and intervention in South Africa. [email protected]
Dina Rippon JD, LLM, MPH is coordinator of the Wellcome Trust-supported Global Health Bioethics Network. The Network brings together partners from the five Wellcome Trust Major Overseas Programmes to promote ethics capacity development and ethics research. Dina is especially interested in understanding how ethics plays out in practice across different contexts, and in the links between bioethics and human rights. Dina is a human rights lawyer and public health professional. Throughout the years she has focused on advancing and
promoting the right to health, especially in the area of sexual and reproductive rights, and has also worked on women’s rights and gender empowerment more broadly. Prior to joining Ethox, she specialized in examining the intersections between human rights and public health at the Program on International Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health. [email protected]
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Rodrick Sambakunsi joined MLW in 2011 and has worked in different capacities: Senior Community Liaison Officer, Field Project Manager with Hit TB Hard study and recently, Science Communication Manager. His work with Hit TB Hard had mainly revolved around community engagement activities right from pre-introduction to implementation. Some of these activities included: stakeholders mapping, community sensitization, community mobilization and community capacity building. Mostly stakeholders included local leaders, religious leaders, study participants, members of community based organizations and community members at large. Before joining MLW, Rodrick worked for several community development organizations whose main objective was poverty reduction and his responsibilities revolved around community mobilization. With his new position, which officially starts on 1st June, he will be leading an excellent team of community engagement practitioners on a programme wide community engagement. [email protected]
Salla Sariola is a senior research fellow at University of Oxford, Ethox Centre. She is part of the Global Health Bioethics Network funded by Wellcome Trust’s Strategic Award (096527) and is currently working on community engagement in international medical research. Salla's long-term research interests concern organisation and conduct of clinical research in low-income settings. Salla’s research interests also include gender, sexuality and marginality. She is the author of Gender and Sexuality in India: Selling Sex in Chennai (2010 and 2012 by Routledge). Using feminist and queer theory frameworks, the book is an ethnography of sex workers in Tamil Nadu, south India,
and global health policies regarding HIV. Salla has a PhD in Sociology and is an editor of Science and Technology Studies, an interdisciplinary journal of the European Association of Study of Science and Technology. [email protected]
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Surendra Shrestha: I come from a village on the outskirts of Kathmandu Valley. In high school I majored in management. I also trained for 2 years as a Community Medical Auxiliary in a polytechnic school for health care workers. In 2005, I was volunteering at a free medical camp in rural Nepal when a doctor who worked in the research unit at that time asked me to join his research project at Patan Hospital in Kathmandu. The research unit does research on infectious diseases like enteric fever (typhoid), hepatitis, meningitis and encephalitis that are common in Nepal. Our work enables us to learn more about those illnesses to find out what is the best treatment or prevention method against them. While doing this work I also studied part-time for a Bachelor’s degree in Education (B Ed) in Health and a Post Graduate Diploma in Health Care Management (PGDHCM) which I recently completed. Currently, I spend my weekends and free time helping to set up and run a medical clinical at my village. I find it very enjoyable when I can help people and provide them with a service.
Halina Suwalowska: [no bio] [email protected]
Dan Thanh (Nguyen Thi Dan Thanh) is a social scientist and works as public engagement researcher at OUCRU-VN. She comes from the Mekong Delta and went to Norway to study about why some countries are rich and others are not. Her current fields of interest are social protection, qualitative research and healthcare for the underprivileged. Since joining OUCRU-VN in 2014, she has had the opportunity to practice public engagement projects aiming at improving health, namely Health in Backyard, Food across generations, The Importance of Relationship in Research, and Beyond the Hospital. [email protected]
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Phuong Nguyen Thi Thanh: I am the Project Coordinator of the SCENERI Study, OUCRU. I worked as a social worker for 7 years with a community development organization before I joined OUCRU as project coordinator. Science research working environment is a quite different and challenge to me. However, I do hope in current study, I could step by step to understand and run my role well for the all team members do their tasks effectively. [email protected]
Thuy Nguyen Thi Thanh graduated with a Msc., Clinical Trials at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 2014. With the support of a background in Bsc. in Business Administration and a BA in English, she has just successfully completed her Senior Research Associate-Monitor role at the OUCRU Clinical Trials Unit. She is moving to the post of Senior Research Associate in Ethics and Policy this summer, focusing on engaging local and international collaborators to explore ethical issues in clinical research conducted by OUCRU-VN. Thuy has been working in clinical research since 2004 and has significant experience in maintaining quality assurance and managing controlled clinical trials, coordinating observational studies and monitoring clinical research across South East Asia. Her recent interest is on ethical aspects of collaboration research such as informed consent, benefits & compensation (payment), research results translation and dissemination. [email protected]
Tran Thi Anh Thu, M.A Lecturer in Sociology faculty, National University, Ho Chi Minh city. I have been working as a lecturer and researcher for 10 years in the University of Social Sciences and Humanities (USSH), Vietnam National University, HCMC. My major is related to Sociology of gender, migration and climate change. This year, I have had a chance to participate in the project “Scientist- Community Engagement to reduce Risk of zoonotic Infection,
Vietnam” (SCENERI) as a co-investigator. I am very interested in this project due to its multidisciplinary approach. The project is a longitudinal study with an integrated research team of social scientists, artists, biologists and veterinarians as well as
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local communities in Mekong delta. An extensive goal of this study is making the connection between policy makers, scientists, and local communities in order to increase the mutual understanding in the risks of zoonotic transmission and
infection. [email protected] Jaruwan Tubprasert is Clinical Trials Coordinator at Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU) since 1 May 2013. Before she joined MORU she worked for three years as a Clinical Research Manager (at Thai Medical Schools Consortium (MedResNet), Quintiles and at Family Health International (FHI)). For the past seven years, she has been involved in conducting all phases of clinical research studies with 4 years experience in mentoring, training and supervising, as well as being a project leader for the whole team. She has a lot of experience in monitoring clinical trials in many countries (Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Korea, Fiji and Papua New Guinea) and also in acting as project manager as well as managing and monitoring both the resources and clinical trials to manage the resource allocation so that all aspects of the plan are in progress. [email protected]
Kyaw Myo Tun: I am a 3rd year DPhil student based in Myanmar Oxford Clinical Research Unit (MOCRU), Yangon. MOCRU take part in a large community trial called “Targeted malaria elimination” and part of this study includes community engagement and empowerment. Apart from TME project, I am currently working for two clinical trials concerning artemisinin-resistant malaria and the efficacy and effectiveness of antimalarial drugs in Myanmar. Before moving to MOCRU, I
worked in a disease control team in Myanmar and was responsible for malaria, dengue, tuberculosis and other communicable diseases. As a researcher I am also interested in ethical issues related to blood samples and children. [email protected]
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Claudia Turner is a Senior Research Paediatric at the University of Oxford. She leads the clinical research at the Cambodia Oxford Medical Research Unit based in the Angkor Hospital for Children, Siem Reap, Cambodia. More recently Claudia has been appointed to the position of Strategic Director at the Angkor Hospital for Children and is now responsible for running the hospital for the next five years. She will continue her research and supervisory roles part time. Claudia’s main research interest is in neonatal health care in resource poor settings. Claudia’s Ethox Global Health Bioethics Network Bursary project is entitled “Ethical considerations, perceptions, beliefs and practices in the neonatal period in rural Cambodia”. The results of this study will help shape future, community based intervention studies to reduce neonatal mortality. [email protected]
Lam Minh Yen, BS, MD has been Vice Director of the Hospital for Tropical Diseases (a tertiary – 550 bed –infectious diseases hospital) in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam for 7 years. She is currently President of the Review Board and Vice President of the Ethics Committee of this hospital. Before joining the Director Board, she was the head of a 20 – bed Tetanus Intensive care Department. She received a Master’s degree of Health Science from the Pharmacology and Medicine University in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam in 1998 and a Master’s degree of Science in Internal medicine from Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia in 2001. She is interested in treating and researching severe infectious diseases such as tetanus, meningitis, influenza, hepatitis, rabies. She has
experience in some international and local clinical trials about the old and new drugs in treatment of tetanus, hepatitis, meningitis, sepsis as a principal investigator, investigator or coordinator. [email protected]
