M Kruger | P Ndebele | L Horn (Eds)
Lyn Horn worked as a medical practitioner for twenty years
before specialising as a bioethicist by completing both a Master’s
degree and then a PhD in Applied Ethics. She has been a member
of one or other research ethics committee (REC) for the last ten
years and currently chairs the REC: Humanities at Stellenbosch
University. She is also appointed as the Research Integrity Officer
at this University and has academic positions as an ethicist in both
the Department of Philosophy and Paediatrics & Childh Health.
She was appointed by the South African Minister of Health to
serve a three year term on the National Health Research Ethics
Council of South Africa (2010-2013) and is also a faculty member
of SARETI.
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Paul Ndebele has a PhD in research ethics and is the Director of
the Medical Research Council Zimbabwe (MRCZ) with prior
appointments as Bioethics Contractor at the Division of AIDS,
US National Institutes of Health; Assistant Director of Research
Ethics, Office of Research and Development, University of
Botswana; and Program Coordinator in the ethics program at
University of Malawi, College of Medicine. He is a FABTP trainee
and has been a consultant for UNESCO, WHO and AMANET.
He has participated in several other Bioethics Programmes
including SARETI, CEBESA, the College of Medicine (University
of Malawi), Center for Ethics in the Humanities and Life Sciences
(Michigan State University, USA) and as visiting scholar at the
Erasmus Mundus Bioethics Programme, Padova University, Italy.
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Mariana Kruger is a paediatric oncologist and ethicist. She is
currently a full professor and executive head of the department
of Paediatrics and Child Health at Tygerberg Hospital, University
of Stellenbosch. She is a founder member (2003) and co-principal
investigator of South African Research Ethics Training Initiative
(SARETI), funded by Fogarty International Center, NIH, USA,
which aims to build African research ethics review capacity. She
has served on several ethics review committees (including as
either chair or deputy chair for the last 10 years) and is currently
a member of the Stellenbosch University Senate Ethics Review
Committee. She is also the current African Continental President
for the International Society for Paediatric Oncology (SIOP). She
has been principal investigator for several paediatric clinical trials
with several scientific and ethics publications.
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