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Geoffrey Lairumbi
| Contact address | The Ethox Centre Division of Public Health and Primary Health Care University of Oxford, Badenoch Building, Old Road Campus, Headington, Oxford OX3 7LF |
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Geoffrey Lairumbi is a research student working towards his doctorate, supported by a Wellcome Trust Bioethics Studentship. His research topic is “The Social Value of Research: The Ethical Concept and Practice in Kenya.”
His research will use Kenya as a case study, to describe and analyse the use of the concepts “social value” and “benefit sharing”, and how these influence and shape strategies for maximizing benefits of health research in developing countries. In particular, his work will explore empirically how social value is understood and the extent to which it is prioritized as an outcome of research; explore how strategies for promoting social value may be considered using two tracers (malaria vaccine trials and zinc supplementation), which parties might be responsible and to what extent and finally explore available mechanisms for knowledge translation that may be considered a useful tool for promoting the social value of research.
