Gabrielle Samuel
Dr Gabrielle (Gabby) Samuel is a Lecturer in Environmental Justice and Health at the Department of Global Health & Social Medicine, King's College London, UK. Her research interests include global health, specifically relating to the social/ethical issues associated with planetary health and/or digital health. She is trained in sociology and ethics (Medical sociology PhD and Bioethics MA) with a background in the life sciences (Molecular Genetics PhD). She draws mainly on qualitative research methods and has published extensively in the field of environmental sustainability, research ethics, digital health (research), biobanking and genomics.
Gabby co-leads a large multi-country Wellcome funded project called SHARE, which aims to explore how to deliver a context sensitive, just, systems-focused and reflexive approach to environmentally sustainable health research in the UK, Ghana, Kenya, India and Brazil. SHARE has a particular interest in promoting strong, equitable and just global and collaborative partnerships. She’s also co-investigator on a multi-million pound Wellcome digital mental health project with Zimbabwe and Kenya, and a similar smaller project at King’s College London, the latter having a particular working package on developing more equitable partnerships with LMIC institutions.
Gabby is Associate Editor for both the Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, and Humanities & Social Sciences Communications. She’s co-Director of SHADE-a research group at the intersection of Sustainability, Health, AI, Digital technologies, and the Environment. She’s a visiting scholar at the University of Oxford, where she’s a member of the Digital Environmental Sustainability Ethics and Clinical Ethics, Law and Society research groups.