Jantina de Vries
Jantina de Vries is founding and current director of the Ethics Lab and Professor 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. She leads three core grants that support that work: a Wellcome Trust Research Development Programme that seeks to articulate how knowledge from the African humanities could and should inform on the ethics of new and emerging health technologies; a Fogarty International Centre (NIH) award that aims to develop and implement an MSc in Global Health Ethics degree that centres Africa as the context and driver for ethics; and a Wellcome Trust Discovery Award (PI Caesar Atuire) that focuses on developing a global health solidarity index for global health funders.
Jantina was a member of the WHO Genome Editing Expert Advisory Committee, a member of the H3Africa Steering Committee and the founding Chair of the H3Africa Working Group on Ethics. She led the development of many ethics guidelines for genomics research that are used across the African continent. She is a member of the Ethics Board of Médecins Sans Frontières and the Steering Committee of the Global Forum for Bioethics in Research. She currently is helping establish the UCT AI Initiative.
Jantina obtained her DPhil through The Ethox Centre at the University of Oxford (2011), and an undergraduate degree in sociology at Wageningen University (2003). She has published over 120 articles in international peer reviewed journals.
EthicsLab website: https://health.uct.ac.za/ethics-lab
ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/my-orcid?orcid=0000-0001-7192-2633
Google Scholar profile: https://scholar.google.co.za/citations?user=aT-TJQgAAAAJ&hl=en