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Rose Mwangi |
Rose Mwangi, a native of Kenya, is a visiting scholar who comes to Michigan State University’s (MSU) Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences (CEHLS) from the Joint Malaria Research Programme in Tanzania. She is one of three second-year trainees to join us as part of a four-year research and bioethics training program, "International Training for Scholarship in Research Ethics," funded by the Fogarty International Center of the US National Institutes of Health. This program represents a partnership between CEHLS at Michigan State University and the University of Malawi College of Medicine. As a visiting scholar and trainee, Rose is engaged in various relevant activities including attending MSU research ethics classes and sitting as a shadow reviewer on the University's Institutional Review Board.
Rose has earned a B.A. in Sociology and Philosophy from the University of Nairobi Kenya, and a Master of Philosophy in Gender and Development from the University of Bergen, Norway. Her thesis is based on issues surrounding women and health with a special focus on malaria. For over five years, she coordinated and taught in the MPH program at a teaching and research hospital in Tanzania.
Research Interests:
Her main areas of research center on the issues of gender and health, specifically
in the social implications of infectious diseases such as malaria and HIV/AIDS.
Currently she is leading the social science component of a European Union
(EU) funded project exploring the quality of care in pediatric wards in district
hospitals in northern Tanzania.
