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The International
Advisory Committee (IAC) consists of experts in
Bioethics from West Africa and internationally. They
provide guidance and mentorship to members of faculty of
the WAB, help to identify excellent candidates for
training and provide advice on the general course of the
training program and on specific issues that arise in
regional and international bioethics education. The
membership will consist of:
Senegal
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Professor Saidou Tall, Professor of International
Public Law, Departement Droit Public, Universite
Cheikh Anta DIOP de Dakar, B.P. 5005, Dakar-Fann,
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Dr. Aissetou Toure, Research Scientist,
Pharmacologist and Bioethicist at the Institut
Pasteur, Dakar
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Professor Mamadou Badji. Juriste –
Assesseur Faculte des Sciences Juridiques et
Politiques, Universite Cheikh Anta DIOP de Dakar,
B.P. 5005, Dakar-Fann.
Nigeria
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Rev Father Joseph Kenny O.P. Dominican Institute,
Ibadan. Retired Professor of Philosophy and expert
on Islamic philosophy and theology. Currently Dean
of Studies at the Dominican Institute, Ibadan.
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Professor Rich Umeh. Professor of Ophthalmology and
Chairman of the Ethics Review Committee of the
University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital. Enugu
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Dr. Dan Iya. Professor of Surgery and former Head of
the University of Jos Teaching Hospital, Jos.
Cote d’Ivoire
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Professor Lazar Poame, University of Boake, Cote
d’Ivoire. Chairman of the National Bioethics
Commission of Cote d’Ivoire and contributor of the
chapter on Animist Philosophy to the Nouvelle
Encyclopédie Bioéthique.
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Professor Herve Yangni-Angate, Physician and
Chairman of IRB at the University of Cocody
Burkina Fasso
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Dr. Assetou Derme, Ph.D. Medical
Sociologist and Bioethicist at the Centre National
de Recherche et de Formation sur le
Paludisme(CNRFP), Burkina Faso.
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Dr. J. B. Ouedraogo, M.D., J.D. Director of Research
and Chairman of IRB, IRSS, Direction Regionale,
Bobo-Dioulasso
Ghana
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Rev Father Appiah-Poku, Senior Lecturer and Head of
Department of Behavioural Sciences, School of
Medical Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of
Science and Technology, Kumasi,
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Dr. Eric Amuah, Public Health Expert and
Bioethicist. Graduate of the University of Toronto,
Joint Center of Bioethics and currently at the
School of Public Health, University of Ghana, Accra
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Ms. Paulina Tindana IRB Administrator and
Bioethicist, Graduate of both the Johns Hopkins
African Bioethics Training Program and the Joint
Center of Bioethics at the University of Toronto,
Toronto. IRB Administrator at the Navrongo Health
Research Center, Ghana Health Service, Navrongo.
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Mr. Okyere Boateng IRB Administrator and Bioethicist
at the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical
Research, Legon
Togo
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Professor. Kwami Christoph Dikenou Professor of
Philosophy and Bioethics at the University of Lome,
Lome
Directors of Fogarty Bioethics Training
Programs focused on Africa
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Dr. Henry Silverman of the University of Maryland,
US. Director of the HRETIE program for Bioethics
training in Egypt
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Dr. Doug Wassenaar, Principal Investigator of the
South African Research Ethics Training Program. Cape
Town, South Africa. He is also a grant holder of the
UNAIDS African Vaccine Program.
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Dr. Peter Singer, University of Toronto. Professor
of Medicine and Director of the Joint Center for
Bioethics. Leading internationally acclaimed
bioethicist.
Representation of other interests
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Ms Angela Wasunna, Associate for International
Programs at The Hastings Center, New York, Lawyer
and Bioethicist.
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Dr. Patricia Marshall, Bioethicist at the Case
Western Reserve University. Expert on International
Collaborative Research and Informed Consent in
Genetic Epidemiology research
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Dr. William Blattner. Principal investigator of the
University of Maryland and Nigeria Institute of
Human Virology HIV Clinical Trials program
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Dr. Charles Rotimi, Director of the National Human
Genome Program at Howard University, Washington DC
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