Martei, Yehoda M.
Dauda, Bege
Vanderpuye, Verna
Funding for this research was provided by:
Fogarty International Center (K01TW011481)
National Institutes of Health (P30 AI 045008 NIH; Penn Center for AIDS Research)
Article History
Received: 1 July 2021
Accepted: 8 February 2022
First Online: 23 February 2022
Change Date: 22 March 2022
Change Type: Correction
Change Details: A Correction to this paper has been published:
Change Details: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-022-09412-8
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: The authors have no financial and non-financial competing interests.Bege Dauda, PhD, is a post-doctoral fellow in the Medical Ethics Division at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. His academic focus is on ethico-legal challenges and opportunities of benefit sharing in genomic research in Africa, focusing on the H3 Africa initiative. He also has an interest in the ethics of sample sharing and transfer as well as capacity building in research in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.Verna Vanderpuye, MD, is a radiation and medical oncology physician with over 20 years of experience in treating cancer patients, training young physicians, nurses and other allied health workers and research into cancer in Africa. She has served on committees which influence care and research including the World Health Organization, American Society of Clinical Oncology, European Society of Clinical Oncology and the African Organization for Research and Treatment in Cancer. Dr. Vanderpuye works to improve delivery of academic content to African practitioners and researchers on the continent and is helping to move forward the agenda of implementation research.