Caesar Atuire is a philosopher and bioethicist based at the Department of Philosophy and Classics in the University of Ghana, Legon. He is a Visiting Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford University. He is also a member of the lead team of the NYU-UG Training Programme in Research Ethics and a founding member of the Ghana Research Ethics Consortium. In 2019, Dr Atuire co-edited the volume Bioethics in Africa: theories and praxis. He is a member of the Planning Committee of the Global Forum on Bioethics in Research, 2020. Atuire’s philosophical research interests and publications are on the African and global sources of normative thinking. He has carried out research on the frameworks informing attitudes towards mental disorder and suicide in Ghana. Outside academia, Atuire leads an NGO that delivers healthcare to persons in marginalized rural communities in the coastal areas of Ghana.

Prof. Cheah holds an Erasmus Mundus Masters in Bioethics and PhD in Pharmaceutics. She is a Professor at Oxford University and head of Bioethics & Engagement at the Bangkok based Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit. Her research focuses on the ethics of research in low- and middle-income settings, data sharing, and the intersection between ethics and community engagement. She is a member of the Steering Committee of Global Forum for Bioethics in Research. She is currently leading an international survey and qualitative study on the social and ethical aspects of public measures in COVID-19.

Cheryl Macpherson, PhD is Professor of Bioethics in the Department of Clinical Skills at St George’s University School of Medicine in Grenada, Senior Research Fellow in the Windward Islands Research and Education Foundation (WINDREF), and Principle Investigator on the NIH-Fogarty-funded Caribbean Research Ethics Education initiative (CREEi) to design and offer a regionally relevant masters degree curriculum for building research ethics capacity in low and middle income countries of the Caribbean basin. She is Past President of the Bioethics Society of the English-speaking Caribbean (BSEC); has consulted for PAHO and WHO on ethics of vector-borne diseases; aand edited the book Bioethical Insights into Values and Policy: Climate Change and Health (Springer Press, 2016). Her recent publications include Energy, Emissions, and Public Health Ethics in the Oxford Handbook of Public Health Ethics (2019) and Research ethics guidelines and moral obligations to developing countries: Capacity‐building and benefits (Bioethics, 2019).

Nkwan Jacob is a nurse working with the Cameroon Baptist Convention Health Services, in Cameroon. He has 19 years of experience in infection prevention and control (IPC) as well as in water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH). He served as the pioneer IPC/WASH nurse and chair of the IPC committee of Banso Baptist Hospital (BBH) from 2002 to 2007, and then as IPC supervisor and chair of the Cameroon Baptist Convention Health Services CBCHS) IPC committee from 2011 to 2019.

As the lead IPC nurse, he conceived and implemented several IPC/WASH projects that raised IPC/WASH practices in BBH and other facilities of the Cameroon Baptist Convention Health Services to acceptable standards. The introduction of local ABHR production and improvement in hand hygiene practices in general led to the successful elimination of neonatal sepsis in the maternity unit of BBH in 2006. ABHR, now used in all the health facilities of the CBCHS, has contributed significantly to improved hand hygiene practices in all the facilities of the CBC Health Services.

Nkwan Jacob and his team have received several national and international awards including the third IFIC sponsorship award in 2004, OXIOID infection control team of the year in 2006, CBCHS cleanest hospital award in 2006, APIC International Ambassador Award in 2018 as well as the SHEA Hero of Infection Control in 2019.

He is a current member of several IPC and professional associations including:

• Infection Prevention and Control Association of Cameroon
• Infection Control African Network (ICAN)
• Infection Prevention and Control Association (IPAC) of Canada
• Association of Professional in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC)
• Society for Health Care Epidemiology of America (SHEA)
• Cameroon Bioethics Association (CAMBIN)
• Cameroon Nurses Association (CNA)

Nkwan Jacob has a bachelor’s degree in Nursing Sciences from the University of Buea and a master’s degree in Public Health (MPH) from the University of Roehampton. He is currently doing a post graduate course in infection prevention and control with the University of Radboud, Netherlands. He has published several articles.

Dorcas Kamuya is the Head of Health Systems and Research Ethics (HSRE) Department at the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme in Kenya. She holds a Wellcome-Trust funded fellowship that aims to examine ethical and social-cultural issues on complex ethical topics, with bio-banking as a case study. Her research interests span several interrelated areas including developing ethical frameworks for Controlled Human Infection Studies in LMIC; the value of community and public engagement in health research, and ethical dilemmas for frontline research workers.

Patricia Kingori is a Wellcome Senior Investigator at the Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities (WEH) at the University of Oxford. Patricia is sociologist and her research has focused on ethical issues in the practice of global health. She has spent most of her career researching and documenting the ethical dilemmas of fieldworkers and frontline workers such as nurses and doctors in research, clinical and humanitarian settings including more recently the ethical issues which emerge after the conduct of Ebola clinical trials in West Africa. She has had held a number of advisory positions related to the ethical issues involved in research including the Nuffield Council of Bioethics Research in Global Health Emergencies Expert Working Group, Safeguarding Expert Advisory Group (UKCDR) and more recently the Expert Group on an Ethical Framework for COVID-19 testing for NHS workers lead by the THIS institute, University of Cambridge.

Shai Linn – Full Professor, University of Haifa, Israel.Physician and epidemiologist. Two medical specialties: Public Health and Health Management. Received an M.D. degree from Hebrew University, MPH, and Dr PH both from Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.Deputy Medical Director of the Rambam Hospital (1982-1985), head of the medical record committee at the Rambam Medical Center (1982-1989, 1992-1998), head of the Unit of Epidemiology (1993-2010) at the Rambam Medical Center and head of medical informatics at the Faculty of Medicine of the Technion in various capacities. Served as a Visiting Scientist at the U.S. National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland (USA). Received a grant from the well known MacArthur Foundation, Social Science Research Council for studying the human cost of war injuries (1990-1992). Visiting Professor at the University of North Carolina, USA (1986) and the University of British Columbia, Canada (1990-1992). Consultant at the U.S. National Center for Health Statistics in Maryland, USA (1985-1986) and to the World Bank (1998) and the AIDS Center in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (2000). Epidemiologist of the Israel Transplant Center (1999). Was a member of several Israel National Medical Councils. Founder and Chair of the Department of Epidemiology at the Technion (1992-1999). Founder and Chair of the Department of Public Health at the University of Haifa (2003-2007). Dean of the Faculty for Social Welfare and Health Sciences at the University of Haifa (2010-2016). Published extensively in leading journals, an instructor of 67 students for higher degrees.

Faith Mary Musvipwa obtained a PhD in Sociology from the University of Venda in 2020. She did a one-year pre-doctoral fellowship at the University of Virginia (UVA) at the Centre for Global Health in 2017. Faith has a Master of Arts in Sociology degree and Honors in Sociology degree and an undergraduate B.A Social Sciences degree from the University of Limpopo. She has more than 6 years of experience working on different research projects for both national and international organizations.

Sofía P. Salas is a Chilean medical doctor, appointed as Full Professor (Senior stage of the career) at the Center of Bioethics, Faculty of Medicine, Clínica Alemana- Universidad del Desarrollo (Santiago, Chile; https://medicina.udd.cl/centro-bioetica/). Since 1994 she has participated as member of the local IRB at the Faculty of Medicine Universidad Católica (up to 2009), at Universidad Diego Portales (2013 to March 2018), and since 2018 at the Faculty of Medicine, Universidad del Desarrollo. She teaches research ethics at pre and postgraduate levels and also conducts bioethics research on different topics. During 2014, Dr Salas was awarded a training Program in Research Ethics at FLACSO, Argentina, a program supported by Fogarty International Center from the NIH. She is a member of the Ethics Department of the Chilean Medical Association (Colegio Médico de Chile) and Chair of the National Commission for Research Ethics, an advisory Commission for the Chilean Ministry of Health in research ethics. In December 2018 she was awarded the “Premio de Ética” by the Chilean Medical Association for her work “Conscientious objectors in Chilean medical education”. She has published extensively both locally and internationally related to bioethics research.

Paulina Tindana, MHSc, DPhil, is a Senior Lecturer and Bioethicist at the Department of Health Policy, Planning and Management, School of Public Health University of Ghana. Previously, she worked at the Navrongo Health Research Centre in Northern Ghana as a Deputy Chief Health Research Officer. Her work focuses on the ethical, social, cultural, and policy implications of biomedical research including genetics and genomics studies. She has been an active member of the H3Africa Consortium since 2013 and chaired the Community Engagement Working Group between 2015 to 2018. She is also involved in research ethics capacity building initiatives for researchers and members of research ethics committees in Africa.

Katharine is a freelance ethics consultant, specialising in the field of global health ethics. She has over thirty years of experience working at the intersection of ethics, law and policy, including over fifteen years at the UK-based Nuffield Council on Bioethics where she directed a number of projects concerned with the ethical inclusion of research participants traditionally classed as ‘vulnerable’. These included major inquiries exploring the ethical conduct of research with children (2015), and the challenge of conducting research ethically in the context of global health emergencies (2020). She now works with a number of partners, including the WHO and the Multi-Regional Clinical Trials Center.