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Welcome to the Health Law & Ethics Research Interest Group

We aim to engage in topical health law and ethics research and teaching from a uniquely South African perspective, and to impact on the South African, African, and global health law and ethics landscape.

Colloquium Series on African Philosophy, Genetics and Genomics

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WORKSHOP: IS IT TIME TO RECONSIDER THE GENETIC LINK REQUIREMENT FOR SURROGACY?

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VIRTUAL WORKSHOP: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN HEALTHCARE IN SOUTH AFRICA

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ART Regulations Revised Draft

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PRINCIPLES FOR HERITABLE HUMAN GENOME EDITING

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On an undergraduate level, we present Bioethics as an elective to LLB students. On a postgraduate level, we offer a research LLM, and coursework LLM in Medical Law, and a research PhD. Our undergraduate course in Bioethics is typically taken by about 100 students every year. Our main areas of interest are

Reproductive law & ethics
Children’s rights – research, reproduction
New technologies & health care
Big data, genomics, and health law
End-of-life

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You are welcome to email any one of our Research Group members directly, or email the Research Group Leader, Professor Donrich Thaldar at ThaldarD@ukzn.ac.za We are always eager to explore possibilities for collaboration, or potential postgraduate projects. Here is a list of 15 of our most recent 2020 publications:

Marietjie Botes & Donrich Thaldar. COVID-19 and quarantine orders: A practical approach
David McQuoid-Mason. COVID-19 and its impact on informed consent: What should health professionals tell their patients or their proxies?
David McQuoid-Mason. COVID-19 and patient-doctor confidentiality
David McQuoid-Mason. COVID-19: May healthcare practitioners ethically and legally refuse to work at hospitals and health establishments where frontline employees are not provided with personal protective equipment?
Bonginkosi Shozi. A critical review of the ethical and legal issues in human germline gene editing: Considering human rights and a call for an African perspective
Bonginkosi Shozi. Something old, something new: applying reproductive rights to new reproductive technologies in South Africa
Jerome Singh. The Case for Why Africa Should Host COVID-19 Candidate Vaccine Trials
Jerome Singh. How South Africa’s Ministerial Advisory Committee on COVID-19 can be optimised
Sheetal Soni. Cautious Progress Toward Clinical Application of Human Gene Editing
Sheetal Soni. CRISPR and the Law: A South African Perspective
Donrich Thaldar & Bonginkosi Shozi. Procreative Non-Maleficence: A South African Human Rights Perspective on Heritable Human Genome Editing
Donrich Thaldar. Egg donors’ motivations, experiences, and opinions: A survey of egg donors in South Africa
Beverley Townsend & Donrich Thaldar. Informed consent in medical malpractice suits : an analysis of Beukes v Smith.
Beverley Townsend & Donrich Thaldar. Navigating uncharted waters: biobanks and informational privacy in South Africa
Yousuf Vawda & Bonginkosi Shozi. Eighteen Years After Doha: An Analysis of the Use of Public Health TRIPS Flexibilities in Africa

Welcome to the Health Law & Ethics Research Interest Group​​

Colloquium Series on African Philosophy, Genetics and Genomics

WORKSHOP: IS IT TIME TO RECONSIDER THE GENETIC LINK REQUIREMENT FOR SURROGACY?

VIRTUAL WORKSHOP: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN HEALTHCARE IN SOUTH AFRICA

ART Regulations Revised Draft

PRINCIPLES FOR HERITABLE HUMAN GENOME EDITING

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Members

Associated members

Professor Jerome Singh

Doctoral fellows​

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Welcome to the Health Law & Ethics Research Interest Group

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