Jantina de Vries

Jantina de Vries is an Associate Professor in Bioethics at the Department of Medicine of the University of Cape Town. She obtained her DPhil through The Ethox Centre at the University of Oxford (2011), and undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in sociology at Wageningen University (2003). She has been at the University of Cape Town since 2011.

Jantina co-directs the IFGENERA H3Africa ELSI Collaborative Centre. She was the founding Chair of the H3Africa Working Group on Ethics (2013-2016) and is a member of: the Research Ethics Board of Médecins Sans Frontières, the World Health Organization Expert Advisory Board on Genome Editing, the Steering Committee of the Global Forum for Bioethics in Research, the H3Africa Steering Committee and the Advisory Board for the Center for ELSI Resources and Analysis (CERA) based at Stanford University. She also sits on Advisory Boards for a number of ongoing international genomics research and ethics training projects. She is an Ethics and Science Reviewer for the European Commission and a regular reviewer of funding applications for national and South African funding organizations.