The Global Health Bioethics Network

The Global Health Bioethics Network (GHBN) is highly effective and resilient platform for the promotion of and support for LMIC-led research in bioethics.

This research combines a contextually sensitive investigation of practical ethical problems on the front line of global health research, practice and policy, and a sophisticated engagement with macro-level ethical and political issues in global and social justice.

GHBN is a partnership between the five Wellcome Africa and Asia Research Programmes (AAPs) in Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, Thailand, Vietnam, and the Ethox Centre at the University of Oxford.

It aims to build the capacity of the AAPs to identify and address ethical issues arising in their research; promote and support research on practical ethical issues relating to global health research and practice, and, more broadly, to promote ethical reflection across the AAPs. The current proposal represents an exciting and ambitious moment of transition for the GHBN.

At the heart of this development is the implementation of a new model of collaborative LMI leadership, an expansion of its activities to a broader and more inclusive LMIC membership, and the launch of a peer-reviewed funding scheme to support small scale LMIC-led collaborative projects for early career researchers.