Ethics Coordinator

Dr. Aceme Nyika BSc, PhD, MPH
Ethics Coordinator (EC)

Dr Nyika, is a nationality of Zimbabwe, joined AMANET in April 2007. As Ethics Coordinator, Dr Nyika is the focal person for the “Building Institutional Capacities in Health Research Ethics (HRE) in Africa” project funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He manages the HRE Project which aims at strengthening the ethical review process at African health research institutions, training health research investigators in HRE and promotion of African perspectives to Health Research Ethics through the creation and fostering of an electronic discussion forum, and encouragement of electronic discussion and debate on bioethics issues in Africa.

Before joining AMANET, Dr Nyika was an Ethics Fellow with the Malaria Genomic Epidemiology Network (MalariaGEN) at the University of Oxford and at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (2006-2007) and before that he was Ethics Fellow with the Center for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA) in 2005. Dr Nyika was a lecturer at the University of Zimbabwe (2000-2003) where he contributed to the development of an Ethics Committee at the University.

Dr Nyika obtained his Bachelor of Science in Biosciences at the University of Zimbabwe in 1992, holds a PhD degree in Molecular Biology from the University of Florida, and Master of Public Health degree majoring in Health Research Ethics from the University of Pretoria.