Meet our Faculty Graduates!
What I am doing as a Bioethicist that I would like to share?
1. Publication of a Bioethics Series
Spearheading publication of a Bioethics series to be published by Springer Publishers. The target authors are the 2019 Global Bioethics Students (Anahuac), those who graduated in December 2021 and other Bioethicists. So far, we have 11 manuscripts and need at least 9 more to meet the publishers’ minimum requirement.
2. Establishment of an African Bioethics Network
Working with Mercury Shitindo (Student link in Bioethics between Anáhuac University- Kenya) and Walter Jaoko, both alumni of Anáhuac University to set up an African Bioethics Network to create a platform for partnerships and collaborations among African States. The main aim of the network is sensitization on ethical challenges, capacity building and engagement in activities that will help in solving ethical problems facing Africa and the world at large.
3. Facilitation of Bioethics Training
I have had increased involvement in training ethics research committee members and researchers.
4. Establishment of Hospital Ethics Committees
In partnership with Kenya National Commission of UNESCO, we have so far supported the establishment of Hospital Ethics Committees (HECs) in 3 public hospitals in Kenya. In January 2022 a sensitization meeting was held as a precursor of bringing the Ministry of Health- a major stakeholder- on board to support the effort of establishing HECs in Kenya and develop a curriculum for training HEC members.
5. Speaker at the International Clinical Ethics Conference in South Africa in December 2021
I was invited to the International Clinical Ethics Conference as a speaker on Culture and Multipluralism in End of Life Care.
6. Curriculum Development
Participated in development of a Curriculum for Master of Bioethics which is already in place in one of the private universities in Kenya.
7. Appointment
Appointed as a member of the National Scientific and Ethics Committee in 2021
Lilian Otieno Omotuko, member of the research committee of the Kenyatta National Hospital, is one of the Master in Global Bioethics online students interviewed on the new Ethical Criteria Guideline for Health Emergencies in Mexico in the Context of COVID-19 Pandemic.
Publication date: March 2022