Paul Ndebele

Paul Ndebele currently serves as an Assistant Director in the Office of Research Excellence (ORE) in the Milken Institute School of Public Health. In this position, he is responsible for coordinating issues related to research integrity, ethics and compliance in the School. He also serves as a Professorial Lecturer in the Department of Global Health where he teaches courses on Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR), Ethical and cultural issues in global research and programming; Ethical Issues in Public Health Policy and Practice; and Ethics in Domestic and International research. Paul also serves as a member of the GWU Institutional Review Board (IRB). He holds a PhD in Research Ethics obtained from University of KwaZulu Natal (UKZN) in South Africa. He joined The George Washington University in 2018 from Zimbabwe where he had completed five years of service as Director at the Medical Research Council Zimbabwe (MRCZ) and has prior appointments as Bioethicist Contractor at the Division of AIDS, US National Institutes of Health; Assistant Director of Research Ethics, Office of Research and Development, University of Botswana; Deputy Director for Centre of Bioethics at College of Medicine, University of Malawi; and Assistant Visiting Professor at Michigan State University. He has served as a scholar in four Bioethics Training Programs including the Fogarty African Bioethics Training Programme (FABTP) at Johns Hopkins University; SARETI at University of KwaZulu Natal in South Africa; Erasmus Mundus Bioethics Programme at Padova University (Italy); and Ethox Centre at Oxford University.