Stuart Rennie, PhD, is a professor in social medicine at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine Center of Bioethics. His current work focuses on research ethics, public health ethics, and medical ethics, particularly in the context of the developing world.
Stuart Rennie, PhD, is a professor in social medicine at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine Center of Bioethics. His current work focuses on research ethics, public health ethics, and medical ethics, particularly in the context of the developing world. He was co-principal investigator of two National Institutes of Health/Fogarty International Center bioethics educational projects, in the Central Francophone Africa (Building Bioethics Capacity and Justice in Health) and South Africa (Advancing Research Ethics in Southern Africa). He was also co-principal investigator of a NIH-funded research project on the social and ethical implications of HIV cure research and is part of the ethics program of UNC’s Center for AIDS Research. He is currently co-principal investigator of two NIH-funded collaborative projects with Stellenbosch University in South Africa: a PhD program in research ethics and a project entitled Research for Ethical Data Science in sub-Saharan Africa. With support of the NIH and in collaboration with the Pacific Institute of Research and Evaluation, he has conducted research on the responsible conduct of HIV-related research among adolescents in western Kenya.