Health Law and Ethics Research Interest Group - School of Law

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.

Inaugural lecture by Professor Donrich Thaldar: Building a progressive reproductive law in South Africa

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

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

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Members

Professor Donrich Thaldar

Research Group Leader

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Dr Dusty Lee Donnelly

Dr Dusty-Lee Donnelly

Senior Lecturer, Director of the Maritime Law and Maritime Studies Unit (Acting)

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Professor Freddy Mnyongani

Professor Freddy Mnyongani

Associate Professor

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Ms Nomfundo Mthembu

Mrs Nomfundo Mthembu

Lecturer

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Dr Suhayfa Bhamjee

Senior Lecturer

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Dr Sheetal Soni

Dr Sheetal Soni

Academic Leader: Research & Higher Degrees

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Ms Aliki Edgcumbe

Lecturer

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Associated members

Professor Yousuf Vawda

Professor Yousuf Vawda

Senior Research Associate

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Professor David McQuoid-Mason

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Professor Jerome Singh

Professor Jerome Singh

Honorary Research Fellow

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Dr Marietjie Botes

Honorary Research Fellow

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Dr Beverley Townsend

Dr Beverley Townsend

Honorary Research Fellow

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Dr-Bonginkosi-Shozi

Dr Bonginkosi Shozi

Honorary Research Fellow

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Dr Lukman Abdulrauf

Dr Lukman Abdulrauf

Honorary Research Fellow

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Dr Aishatu E. Adaji

Dr Aishatu E. Adaji

Honorary Research Fellow

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Dr Paul Ogendi

Dr Paul Ogendi

Lecturer at the University of Nairobi

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Dr Peter Munyi

Dr Peter Munyi

Lecturer at the University of Nairobi

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Dr Ciara Staunton

Dr Ciara Staunton

Senior Researcher at the Institute for Biomedicine, Eurac Research (Italy)

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Doctoral fellows

Dr Irvine Sihlahla

Dr Irvine Sihlahla

Doctoral fellows

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Ms Amy Gooden

Ms Amy Gooden

Doctoral fellow

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Dominique Manias

Dominique Manias

Doctoral fellow

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Roasia Hazarilall

Ms Roasia Hazarilall

Doctoral fellow

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