David Wanjeri Egerton UniversityKenya

David Nderitu Wanjeri is a Lecturer of Philosophy at Egerton University, Kenya. David is the current Chair holder of UNESCO Chair on Bioethics and Regional Documentation Centre for Eastern Africa based at Egerton University. David’s research interest is in African philosophy, African indigenous world views, bioethics and research ethics in the African context. David is a recipient of the 2018 Global Forum on Bioethics in Research (GFBR) to the Institute on Ethics and Policy for Innovation (IEPI) at McMaster University in Hamilton Ontario, Canada where he developed and published a paper together with Prof. Claudia Emerson, the Director of IEPI. The title of the paper is: “The indigenous African cultural value of human tissues and implications for bio-banking”. David is also a recipient of the GFBR 2022 Travel Fellowship to the Ethics Lab, Neuroscience Institute at the University of Cape Town to develop a concept tentatively titled: “Transparency and utility of the black box AI in health research inspired by the African belief in cosmic mystery.” David is a member of an Ethics Working Group convened by the African Centre for Disease Control (Africa CDC) to develop an African-centred framework that embraces dominant African principles and values that might guide ethical conduct of research in Africa during epidemic emergencies to prevent harm to participants and communities in which such research is conducted.