Vicki Marsh is a member of the Social and Behavioural Research Group at the KEMRI (Kenya Medical Research Institute)-Wellcome Trust Research Programme in Kilifi, Kenya, who will be registered through the Ethox Centre for a DPhil in Public Health from October 2008. Her work will address ethical issues around international research practice in the context of population based genetics and genomics research with a focus on understanding and responding to participant community views on benefits and harms. The study is part of an ethics research programme at Kilifi with collaborative links to the Ethox Centre.

Vicki has worked in clinical medicine and general practice in the UK (DCH, MRCGP, DTM&H) after graduating from the University of Liverpool. She spent 3 years working in tropical paediatrics in the Gambia between 1981 and 1984, and moved to Kenya in 1990 to support the clinical research programme at the Kilifi centre, which is part of the Oxford Tropical Network. Since 1994, she has worked on community health issues, including the role of the informal private sector in malaria control, and more recently on the role of community engagement in strengthening ethical practice in international biomedical research