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The Scientist as a Responsible Member of Society
October 10, 2023 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm +04
About the Event:
The Armenia-US Collaboration to Address Chronic Disease via Education in Social Determinants Science (ACCESS) Project is offering a series of health seminars devoted to the importance of social determinants influencing non-communicable diseases and advancing Armenia’s NCD research agenda. In this talk, Dr. Paul Ndebele will highlight the responsibilities of individual scientists to society, the environment, and animals. He will also discuss the responsibilities of the government and institutions in ensuring that scientists can continue serving as a positive force in society.
About the Speaker:
Dr. Paul Ndebele serves as an assistant director in the Office of Research Excellence in the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University. He also serves as a professorial lecturer in the Department of Global Health, teaching four Ethics courses, including Responsible Conduct of Research. He holds a Ph.D. in Research Ethics from the University of KwaZulu Natal in South Africa. Over the past 20 years, Paul has held positions in Botswana, Malawi, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and the United States. He has served as a scholar in four bioethics training programs, including the Fogarty African Bioethics Training Programme at Johns Hopkins University; SARETI at the University of KwaZulu Natal in South Africa; Erasmus Mundus Bioethics Programme at Padova University (Italy); and Ethox Centre at Oxford University. Dr. Ndebele has written widely on research ethics, mainly focusing on justice issues in international collaborative research and improving informed consent for research. He serves on advisory committees for various initiatives and is a member of the George Washington University Institutional Review Board.
Language: English
