Fourth Meeting of the DS-I Africa Consortium
16 - 22 November 2024
The Ravenala Attitude Hotel, Mauritius

Ms Nezerith Cengiz - Participant

Research for Ethical Data Science in Southern Africa ()

Nezerith Cengiz is a bioethics graduate presently working as a researcher on the REDSSA project at the Division of Medical Ethics and Law, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University. She completed her MSc in Bioethics and Health Law at the Steve Biko Centre for Bioethics at the University of the Witwatersrand. Her dissertation focused on artificial intelligence (AI) in health care and virtue ethics. Nezerith has worked as a research assistant in vascular surgery, ophthalmology and data science. She has served as a Research Ethics Committee member on the Hospice Palliative Care Association of South Africa and Stellenbosch Health Research Ethics Committee; and currently serves on the Tygerberg Hospital Clinical Ethics Committee.