Dr Bornwell Sikateyo BSc MSc FBioethics MSocSc PhD

Research Degree Student

My first degree is in Mathematics from the University of Zambia, followed by an MSc in Applied Information Technology from Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Brussels, followed by a MSocSc in Health Research Ethics from University of Pretoria's School of Health Systems and Public Health & University of KwaZulu Natal School of Psychology, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. The thesis is however, yet to be submitted. I am also a Fellow of Bioethics of the NIH Fogarty-Johns Hopkins University Fogarty African Bioethics Training Programme in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. I came to the School in December 2006 to do a PhD in the ethics of biomedical research. I will be be focussing my investigation on participants' understanding of consent in a multi-sited Entero-Toxigenic vaccines trial in Misisi, a squatter township in Lusaka, Zambia.

Affiliation

Research

My research interest is in ethics in biomedical research around the areas of assessment of understanding of the informed consent process by participants involved in especially clinical intervention trials using an ethnographic approach. For my PhD I will be exploring the understanding of informed consent undertaken by participants in an Entero-Toxigenic vaccines trial in Misisi compound in Lusaka, Zambia. I am also a member of The Research Group for the Anthropology of African Biosciences (AAB) of the LSHTM. My supervisor is Dr Ann Kelly.

Research areas

  • Clinical trials
  • Health systems
  • Public health
  • Vaccines

Disciplines

  • Anthropology
  • Operational research
  • Sociology

Disease and Health Conditions

  • HIV/AIDS

Other interests

  • Bioethics
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