Second Meeting of the DS-I Africa Consortium
29 October -2 November 2022

Dr Gonasagrie (Lulu) Nair (Participant)

Lulu Nair is a senior lecturer and clinician with a background in public health, clinical trial research in HIV and TB treatment and prevention, GCP training and bioethics. Dr Nair has a noteworthy publication record and has served on the UKZN Biomedical Research Ethics Committee (BREC) and the REC of the South African MRC and is currently on the HREC of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at Stellenbosch University. She is currently a member of the Tygerberg Hospital Clinical Ethics Committee. She has served on the executive committees of CAPRISA (Centre for AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa) and the NIH funded Microbicides Trial Network (MTN) in addition to being a member of the strategic planning group of the Desmond Tutu Health Foundation and more recently on the Management Committee of the Centre for Medical Ethics and Law (CMEL). In addition to having been the site principal investigator on HIV and TB prevention clinical trials she has been the protocol chair of 2 NIH funded studies focused on HIV prevention. She has an interest in HIV and STI prevention strategies for adolescent girls and young women and community engagement and the informed consent process for research participation. Lulu serves as an ethics co-investigator to the REDSSA project.