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Prof. Dorcas Kamuya
Head Of HSRE
KEMRI | Wellcome Trust
About
Dorcas Kamuya is the head of Health Systems and Research Ethics (HSRE) Department at the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme in Kenya; and Professor of Global Health Ethics at the Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford. Dorcas’s research includes examining ethical and social-cultural issues on complex topics including bio-banking, Controlled Human Infection Studies (HIS), cross-border data sharing; pandemic preparedness and response in LMICs. Her current research portfolio includes as a co-investigators and co-chair of the African Population Cohort Consortium (APCC), co-leading work that is examining vaccines for vulnerable populations (VANGUARD), a co-Investigator in Global Health Bioethics Network (GHBN), and is leading social science workstream that is examining acceptability and public confidence in Locally Manufactured vaccines within the broader CHANJO-HUB - Catalysing vaccines & biologics manufacturing in Africa). She continues to examine the value of community and public engagement in health research, and ethical dilemmas for frontline research workers in LMIC settings. Dorcas is a member of several scientific committees and boards within Kenya, regionally and internationally, including the Africa CDC ethics thematic working group, the Advisory Board of the International Association on Bioethics, the Ethics Thematic working group in the Health Systems Global, and the NIHR Community Engagement and Involvement advisory group among others.
See moreCurrent Work
Her fellowship research is an empirical ethics examining if and how communities could be engaged on complex ethical topics, with bio-banking as a case study. As a social science researcher in LMIC, her research interests span several interrelated areas: ethical and social-cultural issues around emerging technologies (biobanking, machine learning); the value of community and public engagement in health research; ethical dilemmas for frontline research workers; and responsibility of researchers and research institutions conducting research in resource-limited contexts.
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2025
Creating different global health futures: mapping the health research ecosystem and taking decolonial action
Tagoe, N. Abimbola, S. Bilardi, et al.
BMC Health Serv Res. 2025; 25:565
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2025
A Pragmatic Trial of Glucocorticoids for Community-Acquired Pneumonia
Lucinde, R. K. Gathuri, H. Mwaniki, et al.
N Engl J Med. 2025; 393:2187-2197
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2022
A pragmatic randomized controlled trial of standard care versus corticosteroids plus standard care for treatment of pneumonia in adults admitted to Kenyan hospitals (SONIA)
Lucinde, R. Abdi, A. Orindi, et al.
Wellcome Open Res. 2022; 7:269
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2025
Better engagement, better evidence: working in partnership with patients, the public, and communities in clinical trials with involvement and good participatory practice
Gobat, N. Slack, C. Hannah, et al.
Lancet Glob Health. 2025; 13:e716-e731
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2025
COVID-19 mortality in Africa and Asia - Authors' reply
Bejon, P. Agweyu, A. Oyier, et al.
Lancet Infect Dis. 2025; 25:e440