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Lyn Horn Lyn Horn

Dr, Senior Lecturer - Stellenbosch university
South Africa

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Dr Lyn Horn MBBch (or ‘MD’), PhD Lyn Horn is a registered medical practitioner and bio-ethicist (PhD) with a particular interest in research ethics, public health ethics and the philosophy of social justice. She practiced as a medical doctor in the public sector for almost twenty years before entering an academic environment and completed a PhD in 2010. She is ' Research Integrity Officer' in the Division for Research Development, Stellenbosch University; a senior lecturer in the Dept of Philosophy and a research ethics consultant at the Desmond Tutu TB Centre, Paediatric Dept, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences where she serves as the African bio-ethicist on the HPTN071 PopART study. She taught a 6 month third year philosophy module: Ethics and Social Justice  in 2013 and is supervising Masters and PhD students Bioethics. She is a past member of the South African National Health Research Ethics Council (NHREC. Currently she also chairs the Humanities REC (IRB) at Stellenbosch University, (having previously managed the Health Research Ethics Committees for a period of seven years); is a faculty member of SARETI (Southern African Research Ethics Training Initiative), a NIH- Fogarty funded programme. She is a co editor of an EDCTP sponsored project that brought together scholars from all over Africa to write a book. The book has now been published and was launched at the EDCTP forum in Berlin in 2014.  Mariana Kruger, Paul Ndebele, Lyn Horn. Research Ethics in Africa: A resource for research ethics committees. SUN MeDIA 2014. ISBN 978-1-920689-30-8 



Lyn is the mother of two boys, the youngest, Nicholas having is at  high school and the eldest (Greg) a Marie Curie fellow and PhD student at the University of Tübingen in Germany.



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