Gulatoon Teresa
Supervisors
Dr. Dorcas Kamuya
Dr. Dorcas Kamuya
Affilliation(s):
Dorcas is a post-doctoral Researcher in Ethics and Community Engagement on the Global Bioethics Network at the Ethox Centre, University of Oxford. She is primarily based at the KEMRI Wellcome Trust (KWTRP), Kenya and works across the UK and the five Wellcome Trust’s Major Overseas Programmes (MOPs) in Kenya, Thailand, Malawi, Vietnam, and South Africa. Her roles include facilitating the strategic development of community engagement activities at KWTRP; coordinating Global Bioethics Network activities aimed at sharing of expertise in community engagement across the MOPs; and developing and leading a research programme around the evaluation of community engagement. Her research interests include ethical implications of community engagement processes in international collaborative research in developing countries; exploring drivers of CE in health research; and ethical and practical challenges and dilemmas for interface research staff. Dorcas’s previous 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 (especially fieldworkers), and carrying our action research around these activities. Dorcas has a PhD from the Open University, UK; a Masters in Public Health (health promotion) from London School of Hygiene and Tropical, and a BSc. in Agricultural Economics from Egerton University, Kenya.
Maureen Njue
Affiliation(s):
Maureen is a Research Officer working within the Health Systems and Research Ethics Group at KWTRP, Kilifi. She currently coordinates the activities of the research ethics group as well as conducts action research to support ethics across the Kilifi programme. She currently chairs 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.Her main research interests are around research ethics focusing on consenting processes for a wide range of research studies and participants. She’s done research around benefits and payments in research and the findings informed the institution’s guidelines on Benefits and Payments which are actively used to inform practice when planning for benefits.Currently, she’s undertaking a study exploring the perceptions of participants within a Malaria Challenge study. She has a Project Management certification from Kenya Institute of Management (KIM) and a Master’s degree in Public Health (Health Services Research) from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom.
Prof. Sam Kinyanjui
Email : SKMuchina@kemri-wellcome.org Prof. Sam Kinyanjui is the Head of Training and Capacity Building at the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Programme in Kenya (KWTRP) and the Director for the Initiative to Develop African Research Leaders (IDeAL). Prior to the current position, he spent 16 years doing research on the immunology and molecular biology of malaria parasites. During this period he developed a strong interest in capacity building for health research in Africa.
As the Head of Training and Capacity Building at the KWTRP in Kenya, he provides scientific and strategic guidance for academic training towards research leadership. His key achievement has been the development and implementation of a comprehensive research career framework for attracting, training and retaining African research leaders. Through the framework, Prof. Kinyanjui has overseen the training of over 200 graduate interns, the majority of who have taken up a research career after the internship. This scheme has now been developed into a nationally accredited Postgraduate Diploma in Health Research Methods. He has also overseen over 100 Masters and over 70 PhD training since 2008. In 2015 Prof. Kinyanjui was awarded a further 8 million pounds by the Wellcome Trust/DIFD to build on this work through the Initiative to Develop African Research Leaders (IDeAL)
Regionally, Prof. Kinyanjui is involved in advocacy for increased commitment to building research capacity in Africa by both African governments and funding agencies. In 2006 he worked at the African Union Headquarter promoting health research agenda within the Union. He also sits on the advisory boards of several African capacity building initiatives including MUIIplus, SSACAB, SANTHE and the TDR Global Community Adhoc Workgroup.
Gulatoon joined KWTRP in January, 2017 as an intern and a student studying Health Research Methods in Pwani University. She is working in a research project that aims at exploring experiences and perspectives of researchers and ethics committees on multiple review process of health research protocols in Kilifi county. This exposure has explored her interest in bio-ethics health system research. She is also planning to do a master’s degree at Warwick University on Health Research methods to acquire more skills and knowledge on health research methodologies and bio-statistics to achieve her goal of being a competent health researcher. Gulatoon is an alumni student at Kenyatta University, having graduated with BSc. in Coastal and Marine Resource Management.
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