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.
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
Members
Professor Donrich Thaldar
Research Group Leader
Dr Freddy Mnyongani
AL Teaching and Learning
Mr Ntokozo Mnyandu
Lecturer
Ms Victoria Balogun
Lecturer
Ms Suhayfa Bhamjee
Senior Lecturer
Dr Sheetal Soni
Deputy Academic Leader – Teaching and Learning, Lecturer
Associated members
Professor Yousuf Vawda
Senior Research Associate
Professor Jerome Singh
Doctoral fellows
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