MANUSCRIPT WRITING WORKSHOP

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MANUSCRIPT WRITING WORKSHOP

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1. Prof. Elizabeth Bukusi
   PROF. ELIZABETH BUKUSI, MBChB, M.Med (ObGyn), MPH, PhD, PGD (Research Ethics), MBE, is a Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences (FAAS). She is a Senior Principal Clinical Research Scientist at the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI), a Research Professor at the University of Washington (Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Global health), and an honorary lecturer at Aga Khan University in Nairobi and Maseno University (Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology). She also serves as Volunteer Clinical faculty – Professor at the University of California San Francisco (Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences) and Visiting faculty at the Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Culture (CBEC) at the Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT). She is an honorary lecturer for the Master of Science in One Health and Emergency Research Ethics (MOHERE) program at the Department of Public Health Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Nairobi. Prof. Bukusi, in collaboration with Dr. Craig Cohen at UCSF, established the KEMRI Research Care and Training Program (RCTP) in 1995. She was the first lead faculty for the Bioethics program at Amref International University (AMIU) from its inception until August 2025, and she continues to serve as a faculty member in the program. She also serves at Mt. Kenya University in the bioethics program as faculty. In addition to substantial experience in conducting socio-behavioral and biomedical research and providing HIV care, mentoring and training health care and research personnel to enhance local and international capacity, she has a strong interest in research and clinical ethics and the development of systems and structures for regulation of research. She was the founding chairperson of the National Bioethics Society of Kenya (BSK), was a board member of AVAC (up to 2024), and chaired the WHO HRP Alliance (capacity building for RH research) 2016 to 2021, and is a trustee for the HIV Trust. She is the Director of LEA -WH - a fellowship program working to transform the health of women in Africa by training the next generation of scientists and innovators on women's health.
   KEMRI, FAAS, University of Washington, Aga Khan University