Community engagement strategies for genomic studies in Africa: a review of the literature.

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Published in BMC Med Ethics on April 12, 2015

Authors

Paulina Tindana1, Jantina de Vries2, Megan Campbell3, Katherine Littler4, Janet Seeley5, Patricia Marshall6, Jennifer Troyer7, Morisola Ogundipe8, Vincent Pius Alibu9, Aminu Yakubu10, Michael Parker11, as members of the H3A Working Group on Ethics

Author Affiliations

1: Navrongo Health Research Centre, Ghana Health Service, P.O. Box 114, Navrongo, Ghana. ptindana@gmail.com.
2: Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Office J52-16, UCT Centre for Clinical Research, Old Main Building, Groote Schuur Hospital, Observatory, 7925, Cape Town, South Africa. Jantina.devries@uct.ac.za.
3: Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town, J-Block, Groote Schuur, Observatory, 7925, Cape Town, South Africa. mm.campbell@uct.ac.za.
4: Wellcome Trust, Gibbs Building, 215 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE, UK. k.littler@wellcome.ac.uk.
5: MRC/UVRI Uganda Research Unit on AIDS, P.O. Box 49, Entebbe, Uganda. janet.seeley@lshtm.ac.uk.
6: Department of Bioethics, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio, 44106-4976, USA. pam20@case.edu.
7: National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, USA. troyerj@mail.nih.gov.
8: West African Bioethics Training Program, Center for Bioethics, 102 Bashorun Road, Ibadan, Oyo, State. morisola.ogundipe@westafricanbioethics.net.
9: College of Natural Sciences, Department of Biochemistry and Sports Science, Makerere University, P.O. BOX 7062, Kampala, Uganda. vpalibu@yahoo.com.
10: National Health Research Ethics Committee, Federal Ministry of Health, Abuja, Nigeria. yaminads@yahoo.com.
11: The Ethox Centre, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. michael.parker@ethox.ox.ac.uk.

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