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.