Professor Vicki Marsh

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Email
vmarsh@kemri-wellcome.org
vicki.marsh@ndm.ox.ac.uk

Podcast interview

In settings with high level of poverty and over-stretched health services, researchers have even greater responsibilities to the communities and study participants. Strenghtening the ethics of research will help address the burden of disease and death born by low to middle income countries.

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Research groups

Vicki Marsh

MBChB MRCGP DPhil

Associate Professor

Global health research
Global health research ethics
Social science and health systems research
Faculty MSc International Health and Tropical Medicine, Social science and Global health research ethics
OXTREC member

Social Science & Ethics in Global Health

Social science and Global Health Research Ethics

Vicki Marsh is an Associate Professor in Public Health at the Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health (CTMGH), Oxford University, UK and a founder member of the KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Programme (KWTRP) in Kenya, with roles in research, teaching, mentorship and Science and Ethics Governance in both institutions. Her research draws on empirical ethics approaches towards strengthening policy and practice in international health research. Originally trained in medicine and General Practice, Vicki’s early research on Malaria Home Care informed the Kenya National Malaria Control Programme and the WHO/TDR Roll Back Malaria strategy.

Recent publications

Applying a gender lens to understand pathways through care for acutely ill young children in Kenyan urban informal settlements
Muraya K. et al, (2021), International Journal for Equity in Health, 20
Vulnerability, Agency, and the Research Encounter: Family Members' Experiences and Perceptions of Participating in an Observational Clinical Study in Kenya.
Zakayo SM. et al, (2021), J Empir Res Hum Res Ethics
Considering the Importance of Context for Ethical Practice on Reimbursement, Compensation and Incentives for Volunteers in Human Infection Controlled Studies
Chi PC. et al, (2021), AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BIOETHICS, 21, 40 - 42
Towards an appropriate ethics framework for Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems (HDSS): learning from issues faced in diverse HDSS in sub-Saharan Africa.
Hinga AN. et al, (2021), BMJ global health, 6
Deliberately infecting healthy volunteers with malaria parasites: Perceptions and experiences of participants and other stakeholders in a Kenyan‐based malaria infection study
Jao I. et al, (2020), Bioethics, 34, 819 - 832

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