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.