Jerome Amir Singh, BA, LLB,
LLM, PhD (Natal), MHSc (Toronto), is Head of the Bioethics and Health
Law Programme at the Center for the AIDS Programme of Research in South
Africa (CAPRISA), Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine, University of
KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa; Adjunct Professor in the
Department of Public Health Sciences and Joint Center for Bioethics at
the University of Toronto, Canada; and, Honorary Research Fellow and
Course Director for Bioethics and the Law at Howard College School of
Law, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa. Dr Singh
co-directs the Ethical, Social, and Cultural Issues Advisory Service
for the Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative, sponsored by the
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
He also serves on the International Research Ethics Board of Médecins
Sans Frontières (MSF), the United States National Institutes of Health
International Therapeutic Data Safety Monitoring Board (Africa), the
Research Ethics Committee of the South African Human Sciences Research
Council, the Scientific Advisory Board of the Aurum Institute of Health
Research, the Ethics Committee of Resolution Health and Docline Medical
Aid Scheme, and the Executive Committee of CAPRISA. |
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Dr. Singh has
previously served as a member of the Research Ethics Committee of the
Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, and
as a trainer on forensic medicine for the Independent Medico-legal Unit
(IMLU). He currently acts as an ad hoc clinical ethics advisor to
several provincial hospitals in Kwazulu-Natal. He has facilitated
numerous workshops on the medico-legal aspects of HIV/AIDS for several
provincial governments in South Africa and has served as an ad hoc
trainer on HIV/AIDS Management for the South African Medical
Association (SAMA), and for HIV/AIDS training initiatives sponsored by
the Global Fund for AIDS, TB and Malaria. He has presented numerous
papers nationally and internationally on issues pertaining to law and
bioethics, and has published several works on issues pertaining to
these fields. |
