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Dr. Dimpho Ralefala

Email: ralefalad@ub.ac.bw

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Research and Innovation Services (Deputy Vice Chancellor Research and Enterprise)

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Dr Dimpho Ralefala is the Head of Research Ethics and Integrity at the Department of Research and Innovation Services, University of Botswana. She holds a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Bioethics from the Berman Institute of Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University, a PhD in Medicine (Bioethics) from the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and a Masters of Social Science degree in Health Research Ethics from the University of KwaZulu Natal in South Africa. She has also participated in several bioethics training initiatives including the year-long Fogarty African Bioethics Training Programme at Johns Hopkins University, USA (2010), and a UNESCO Ethics Teacher Training Course (2017).

She is a certified Research Management Professional (by the International Professional Recognition Council) and has over 15 years’ of working in Research Ethics administration at the University. She served as a member of the Ethics Working Group of the Human Heredity for Health in Africa (H3Africa) Consortium, African Research Integrity Network and she is a founding member of the African Bioethics Consortium. In 2017, she received an award in Professional Excellence in Research Management from the South African Department of Science and Technology in partnership with the Southern African Research Management Association.

Her research interests are on ethical, legal and social issues in genomic research and biobanks, informed consent, children research as well as operations of institutional review boards.

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