Institute: KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme (KWTRP)
Biography
Dorcas Kamuya is a Wellcome Trust Society & Ethics fellow, conducting empirical ethics research examining if and how communities could be engaged on complex ethical topics, with bio-banking as a case study. As a social science researcher in LMIC, her research interests span several interrelated areas: ethical issues for complex research topics in LMIC (including Challenge studies); the value of community and public engagement in health research; ethical dilemmas for frontline research workers; and responsibility for researchers and research institutions conducting research in resource-limited contexts. Dr. Kamuya is primarily based at the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme (KWTRP) in Kilifi, Kenya; is a member of several collaborative initiatives including Global Health Bioethics Network, H3Africa Community Engagement working group, Africa Ethics Working Group (AEWG) on Neuro-disability studies; International Association of Bioethics (IAB), among others. Her research work is shared through a growing list of publications, presentations in many national and international meetings and conferences. She was awarded PhD by the Open University, UK (2013), which examined ethical dilemmas for frontline research staff. She has a Master in Public Health (health promotion) from London School of Hygiene and Tropical, and a BSc. in Agricultural Economics from Egerton University, Kenya.
Key Publications
A list of publications can be found here.
Web Links of Interest
http://kemri-wellcome.org/author/dkamuya/
https://www.tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk/team/dorcas-kamuya
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dorcas-kamuya-45865531/