Dimpho Ralefala

Trabajo

Materias:

Asistencia sanitaria

Palabras clave de la investigación:

Bioethics, Research Ethics, Institutional review board, research involving children, informed consent, genomic research and biobanks

Intereses de colaboración:

Proposal development Publication Grant writing

Biografía:

Dimpho Ralefala is an Assistant Director for Research Ethics at the Office of Research and Development, University of Botswana. She is currently studying for a PhD in Medicine, specialising in Bioethics at the University of Cape Town. Her PhD work is on “Expectations and Preferences of Parents and Adolescents Regarding Feedback of Individual Genetic Findings in an HIV-TB Genomic Research Project in Botswana.” She holds a Masters of Social Science degree in Health Research Ethics (2017) from the University of KwaZulu Natal in South Africa, a Postgraduate Diploma in Education with a specialisation in Geography (2009), and a Bachelor’s Degree in Environmental Science (2008) both from the University of Botswana. She has also participated in several bioethics training initiatives including the year-long Fogarty African Bioethics Training Programme at Johns Hopkins University, USA (2010), and a UNESCO Ethics Teacher Training Course (2017). She has over 9 years’ of working in Research Ethics administration at the University of Botswana. She serves as a member of the Ethics Working Group of the Human Heredity for Health in Africa (H3Africa) Consortium, African Research Integrity Network and she is founding member of the African Bioethics Consortium. In 2017, she received an award in Professional Excellence in Research Management from the South African Department of Science and Technology in partnership with the Southern African Research Management Association. Her research interests are on ethical, legal and social issues in genomic research and biobanks, informed consent, children research as well as operations of institutional review boards.

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