Jantina de Vries University of Cape TownSouth Africa

Jantina de Vries is Director of the Ethics Lab and Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Cape Town. The Ethics Lab cultivates convivial scholarship for a more just world and fosters transformative ethics scholarship that centres Africa as the context and driver for global health ethics. Jantina is a leading expert in the ethics of African genomics research. She was a member of the WHO Genome Editing Expert Advisory Committee, founding Chair of the H3Africa Working Group on Ethics and is currently a member of the Ethics Board of Médecins Sans Frontières and the Steering Committee of the Global Forum for Bioethics in Research. Her work is widely cited and has informed the development of guidelines for genomics research across the African continent.