Professor Vicki Marsh

Contact information

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

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
Vulnerability and agency across treatment-seeking journeys for acutely ill children: how family members navigate complex healthcare before, during and after hospitalisation in a rural Kenyan setting.
Zakayo SM. et al, (2020), International journal for equity in health, 19
Response to Open Peer Commentaries on "Solidarity and Community Engagement in Global Health Research".
Pratt B. et al, (2020), The American journal of bioethics : AJOB, 20, W14 - W16
Solidarity and Community Engagement in Global Health Research.
Pratt B. et al, (2020), The American journal of bioethics : AJOB, 20, 43 - 56
Enhancing fieldworkers' performance management support in health research: an exploratory study on the views of field managers and fieldworkers from major research centres in Africa.
Kombe FK. et al, (2019), BMJ open, 9

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