Marlyn Faure
Marlyn Faure is a GLIDE researcher on pandemic preparedness, response, and surveillance at the Ethox Centre, University of Oxford, a joint project with the Berman Institute, Johns Hopkins University. Previously, he was based at the EthicsLab, University of Cape Town, where he completed his PhD. His research focuses on the intersections of bioethics, social science, and global health.
His PhD research examined how international collaborations in global health continue to deepen historic and new forms of inequalities, focusing specifically on Ebola vaccine clinical trials conducted in Sierra Leone and Liberia after the 2014 West Africa outbreak. This work investigated how taken-for-granted practices in global health collaborations may create further inequities, taking histories of oppression seriously.
As a researcher with a background in the social sciences, Marlyn draws on critical theories to develop complex accounts of equity and justice in relation to bioethics, science, and technology. His work aims to (re)orient science and technology towards building a more just world centred on emancipation, solidarity, and care.
Through his scholarship, Marlyn is committed to ensuring equity and justice theories, approaches, and frameworks extend beyond theoretical knowledge to embodied practice, creating meaningful change that centres marginalised voices and experiences.