Professor Vicki Marsh
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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.
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
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A network of empirical ethics teams embedded in research programmes across multiple sites: opportunities and challenges in contributing to COVID-19 research and responses
Ngwenya N. et al, (2023)
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Ethical considerations around volunteer payments in a malaria human infection study in Kenya: an embedded empirical ethics study.
Chi PC. et al, (2022), BMC medical ethics, 23
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Pandemic preparedness and responsiveness of research review committees: lessons from review of COVID-19 protocols at KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Programme in Kenya.
Hinga A. et al, (2022), Wellcome open research, 7
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Undertaking Community Engagement for a Controlled Human Malaria Infection Study in Kenya: Approaches and Lessons Learnt.
Mumba N. et al, (2022), Frontiers in public health, 10
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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