Rose Mwangi
Rose Mwangi is a Behavioral Scientist and Gender Specialist with training in Bioethics. She is a beneficiary of an NIH Fogarty Fellowship for International Research Ethics at the Michigan State University - Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences through which she earned a Masters in Bioethics. She also gained experience by participating in Community Research Institute Review Boards at Michigan State. She has been very involved in Pan-African Bioethics and is currently the Bioethics instructor for postgraduate students in Tanzania medical institutions, a lecturer, and qualitative researcher in gender & health, health-seeking behavior, and in health & human rights.
Since 2013, Rose has served as a Co-Chair of IRB at the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical University College (KCMUCo) and is highly involved in the regulation of research done with human and animal subjects. Currently, Rose is serving as the Ethics Mentor for the EDCTP Remind- Kid study. She’s also a member of the Advisory Board for ‘Growing Research Ethics Environments in Nigeria ‘(GREEN) , a collaboration with Michigan State University that aims to develop a PhD-level research ethics program that reflects the Nigerian cultural climate.
Her recent milestone is leading the development and integration of a locally contextualized Bioethics curriculum at KCMUCo, an EDCTP funded project in which University of St. Andrews (Scotland) and Tanzania are key stakeholders.
Her interest is advocating for social responsibility among global health researchers and to provide a culturally sensitive research ethics protocol that integrates standard research ethics principles with multicultural principles that authentically reflect African values.