Dr. Siga F. Jagne-Jallow is the Commissioner for Gender and Social Affairs at the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). She has extensive experience in Research Bioethics and was the Project Lead for the UNESCO/MRC program on “Building capacity in bioethics in The Gambia.”
Dr. Veronica Njie-Carr is an academic nurse researcher and a professor in the School of Nursing at the University of Maryland, Baltimore in the United States. She has 37…
Dr. Jainaba Sey-Sawo is the acting head of the Nursing and Reproductive Health Department at the University of The Gambia (UTG). She has been actively involved in teaching since 2006
Dr. Effua Usuf is a clinical epidemiologist and an associate professor at the Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (MRCG @ LSHTM).
Dr. Thomas Senghore is a senior lecturer at the Department of Nursing and Reproductive Health and the Department of Public and Environmental Health at the UTG.
Dr. Henry Silverman is a professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He received his medical degree from the Johns Hopkins Medical School (1978) and a master’s degree in Philosophy
Ms. Tomilayo Felicity Omotosho is a Graduate Assistant at her alma mater, the University of The Gambia. She is a postgraduate student in Community Health Nursing at the UTG and an
Mr. Lamin Bayo is a dedicated, enthusiastic, energetic, and hardworking young man who possesses extensive knowledge and skills in the field of accounting.
Mr. Patrick Bartlett is a graduate assistant at the University of Maryland Baltimore. He graduated from McDaniel College in 2019 with a degree in kinesiology with a minor in philosophy.
Advisory Board
Mr. Bakary Sanneh is a Principal Laboratory Scientist at the Ministry of Health and an adjunct lecturer at the American International University of West Africa. He has been a member of the Gambia Government/MRC Joint Ethics Committee for more than two years.
Dr. Lynn Oswald is an Associate Professor at the University of Maryland, School of Nursing. Her role as IRB Signatory Departmental Reviewer entails reviewing human subjects research protocols UMSON investigators to assure that the initial drafts of the proposals meet ethical and regulatory requirements and are scientifically meritorious and feasible and to give final approval for IRB submission
Dr. Mohammadou Kabir Cham is the Chairperson of the Gambia Government/Medical Research Council The Gambia @ London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Joint Ethics Committee, Registrar of the Medical and Dental Council of The Gambia, and an Independent Public Health Expert/Consultant.
Dr. Natalie Ram is an Associate Professor of Law and Health Care Program at the University of Maryland, Francis King Carey School of Law. She is a top scholar on the intersection of genetic privacy and law and publishing groundbreaking research in the Harvard Law Review, Stanford Law Review, Columbia Law Review, Virginia Law Review, Northwestern Law Review, and in the scientific journals, Science and Nature Biotechnology. She is a 2021 Greenwall Faculty Scholar in Bioethics, which awards three-year career development grants to promising young scholars across disciplines.
Curriculum Committee
Mr. Lamin Suwareh, UTG
Dr. Francis Sarr, Professor, UTG
Dr. Assan Jaye, Professor, MRCG
Dr. Mellissa McDiarmid, Professor, UMB
West Africa Regional Consultants
Dr. Ebunolwa Oduwole, Professor, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
Dr. Ayodele Jegede, Professor, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
Dr. Adolf Kofi Awua, Associate Professor, University of Ghana