CLINICAL ETHICS CERTIFICATE COURSE

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CLINICAL ETHICS CERTIFICATE COURSE

Objectives

Presenters

1. Prof. AAMIR JAFAREY
   Prof. Jafarey, FCPS, FRCS, MBE is Professor and Chairperson at the Centre of Biomedical Ethics and Culture (CBEC), SIUT. He is also a General Surgeon who did academic clinical practice at the Aga Khan University till 2016. Dr. Jafarey has been involved in bioethics education and research for over two decades and has been managing the Postgraduate Diploma and Master’s programs in Bioethics offered by CBEC since 2006. He served on Pakistan’s National Bioethics Committee for 8 years, and was involved in the research review process, in addition to serving on the Clinical Studies Committee of the Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan. He is currently serving as a member of the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region Research Ethics Review Committee since 2017 and is a Co-Director of a Fogarty International Centre – National Institutes of Health funded CBEC-KEMRI Bioethics Training Initiative (CKBTI) located in Nairobi, Kenya.
   Centre of Biomedical Ethics and Culture, SIUT


2. Prof. Elizabeth Bukusi
   Prof. 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.
   KEMRI, University of Washington, AKUH, N, CBEC, UON


3. Prof. STEPHEN MUHUDHIA
   Prof. Muhudhia is a medical doctor and specialist paediatrician practicing at The Nairobi Hospital. He also holds specialization in bioethics, with a Master’s degree in Bioethics and Health Law, as well as a Postgraduate Diploma in Biomedical Ethics. He serves as an adjunct professor of bioethics and previously held the role of Co-Director of the Africa Bioethics Initiative at Trinity International University, Illinois, USA, from 2018 to 2025. He is actively involved in teaching master’s-level bioethics courses at Amref International University and Mount Kenya University, and is a faculty member of the CBEC–KEMRI Bioethics Training Initiative, where he contributes to the delivery of certificate courses in bioethics. Prof Muhudhia is the Chair of the Bioethics Society of Kenya
   Nairobi Hospital, CBEC


4. Dr. PASCAL MWAKIO
   Rev. Dr. Fr. Mwakio is a Catholic priest from the Archdiocese of Mombasa since 2004. He holds Bachelor’s degree in Philosophical studies from Urbaniana University-Rome, Bachelor’s degree in Theological studies, Masters and Doctoral degrees in Bioethics all from Regina Apostolorum University, Rome. He is the author of the book “The Right to Life and African Concepts about Life: A Bioethical Approach for Kenya, 2014.” Dr. Mwakio is the Bioethics Program Lead at AMIU (AMREF International University) and adjunct faculty at Mount Kenya University (MKU). Additionally, he is an external examiner at the University of Nairobi. Currently he is faculty at KEMRI’s Bioethics Training Initiative (CK-BTI). Rev. Dr serves as a member of the Coast General Training and Referral Hospital- Ethics Review Committee. He also belongs to the expert committee of the Kenya National Commission for UNESCO (KNATCOM) under the Social and Human Sciences Program. Dr. Pascal is a member of the Bioethics Society of Kenya. In the African Bioethics Network, he was recently appointed as a Co-Chair of two working groups: AI Ethics and Digital Health, and Conference, Convening and Strategic Engagement
   Archdiocese of Mombasa, UON, MKU, AMIU, CK-BTI


5. Dr. NIDA BASHIR
   Dr. Bashir is a practicing Breast and General Surgeon in Karachi, Pakistan. She is also a part time faculty at CBEC- SIUT. She has received the GB Ong Gold Medal from the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, UK. Her prime interest in the field of biomedical ethics is in medical error, particularly in the sphere of organizational ethics. She has been involved in organizing and running workshops on medical error in various national and international healthcare institutions. Dr. Nida initiated the establishment of a hospital ethics committee (HEC) and medical error reporting system and analysis committee in her previous institution. She was the first coordinator of the Karachi Bioethics Group in 2004 and has been actively involved in two publications of the Group: Physician-Pharmaceutical Interaction Guidelines and Understanding Medical error.
   Centre of Biomedical Ethics and Culture, SIUT


6. Prof. JOHN WERU
   Prof. Weru is a pain and palliative medicine specialist at the Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi (AKUHN). He is the Chief Medical Officer and the Associate Dean, Clinical Affairs at AKUHN. He is the chair of the Hospital Ethics Committee as well as the Vice-Chair of the global Aga Khan Ethics Review Board.
   AKUH,N


7. Miss MELBA KATINDI
   Ms. Katindi is a lawyer and bioethics scholar with over 14 years of experience at the intersection of law, health, and social justice. She holds an LLB in Law, Postgraduate Diplomas in Law and Bioethics, and is currently pursuing a Master’s in Bioethics at Amref International University. She is the Vice Chair of the Bioethics Society of Kenya, Alternate Chair of KEMRI’s Scientific and Ethics Review Unit (Chair - Committee B) and serves as faculty with the CBEC-KEMRI Bioethics Training Initiative as well as Amref International University. Beyond academia, Ms. Katindi practices law with Katindi & Company Advocates in Nairobi and Machakos. She is also the Founder and Executive Director of Next Generation Lawyers, a female-led non-profit advancing human rights and health justice for populations marginalized by discriminatory laws, including criminalization. Her research and publications include a chapter in Bioethics from the Global South (Springer,2025), alongside extensive contributions to law reform, ethics review, and bioethics training across Africa. With her strong academic foundation and leadership in law, ethics, and advocacy, Ms. Katindi brings a unique and practical perspective to bioethics education.
   CBEC, KEMRI, Amref International University


8. Prof. WALTER JAOKO
   Prof. Jaoko is a Physician, and Professor of Medical Microbiology and Tropical Medicine, and former Director of KAVI-Institute of Clinical Research, at the University of Nairobi. He is also an Extraordinary Professor of Medicine at Stellenbosch University at the Centre for Bioethics and Law in the Department of Medicine. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in medicine and a PhD in medical microbiology from University of Nairobi, a Master’s degree in tropical medicine from Liverpool University, a Postgraduate Diploma in Health Research Ethics from Stellenbosch University and a Master’s degree in Global Bioethics from Anahuac University. He has conducted clinical research in various aspects of infectious diseases transmission, treatment and control, and published over 200 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals. He also has a keen interest in health research ethics and has facilitated research ethics training in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and Botswana. He is a member of the research ethics committee of Strathmore University, a private university in Nairobi, Kenya, and of the World Health Organization Research Ethics Review Committee.
   UON, Stellenbosch Uni, Strathmore Uni, WHO ERC