Jerome A. Singh

Jerome Amir Singh, BA, LLB, LLM, PhD, MHSc, is Head of Ethics and Health Law at the Center for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), Durban, South Africa; Adjunct Professor in the Dalla Lana School 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, UKZN, 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 several research ethics committees, including, the International Research Ethics Board of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), the International Therapeutic Data & Safety Monitoring Board (Africa) of the National Institutes of Health (USA), the Research Ethics Committee of the South African Human Sciences Research Council, the Scientific Advisory Board of the Aurum Institute of Health Research, the Biomedical Research Ethics Committee of the Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine, UKZN, and the Bioethics Advisory Committee of the Foundation for the National Institutes for Health (USA). He is a member of the World Health Organisation’s Ethics Task Force on TB Management and serves on the advisory committee to the South African Law Commission on health law.