Research project review panel (RP2)
RP2 assists the Department and its collaborators to foster recognition of universal ethical principles and scientific principles of good research practice, and the use of these scientific and ethical principles into practices and considerations studies are being developed and implemented in sexual and reproductive health in order to protect the health and rights of individuals in different social and cultural settings, according to World Health Resolution 41.9.
The panel provides scientific, technical, ethical and financial review of research projects under consideration by SRH. The type of research under consideration is not restricted to, but includes basic, biomedical, epidemiological, social science, operations, implementation, health systems and programme development research.
RP2 Co-chairs
Chartered scientist and public health expert, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and of Chemistry, UK.
Professor in the School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand; visiting professor, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Professor of Epidemiology and Global Health at Keele School of Medicine, UK
RP2 Reviewers
Professor of Obstetrics, and Vice-Rector for Undergraduate Programs, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil
Certified high complexity laboratory director (HCLD) in andrology and embryology by the American Board of Bioanalysis (ABB), USA
RP2 Member, Senior Researcher at Mathematica where she conducts mixed-methods research and program evaluations, USA
Professor at the University of São Paulo School of Nursing, Brazil
Associate professor of Public Health at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil
Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and of Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, USA
Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Zimbabwe, College of Health Sciences, Zimbabwe
Health services researcher and independent consultant for a range of institutions, UK
Senior Lecturer at Wits School of Public Health, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Public and Community Health physician, researcher and evaluator, specialized in reproductive, maternal, neonatal, child health, family planning, and population and gender equality
Sociologist and Senior Lecturer, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Chief of WHO Collaborating Centre for Research in Human Reproduction, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand.
Specialist Scientist in the Health Systems Research Unit at the South African Medical Research Council, South Africa
Assistant Professor and Deputy Director of the Center for Sexuality and Health Disparities, University of Michigan, USA
Associate Professor at the Al India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), India
Saul J. Morse and Anne B. Morgan Professor in Applied Health Sciences; Director of the MPH and PhD Programs in Community Health at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
Dean Research at IIHMR University, Jaipur, India
Professor of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, School of Medicine, University of Milan, Italy
Honorary professor in Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
Senior Lecturer in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi.
Associate Professor at the University of Hertfordshire, UK
Chairperson, Health Service Commission, Uganda
M.S., Ph.D, Professor Emerita (in service), Department of Pediatrics, University of Michigan, USA
Research Scientist, Center on Gender Equity and Health, University of California, San Diego, USA
Endowed Chair and Vice-Chair of Research in Obstetrics and Gynecology; Professor in the departments of Population Health and the Division of Medical Ethics, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, USA
Ambassador for the World Endometriosis Society, Argentina
Head of the Division of Community Paediatrics, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Obstetrician Gynecologist, Norther California, USA
Senior Scholar, Center for Child and Human Development, Georgetown University and Senior Social Scientist, USA
Senior Investigator, National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Argentina
Director of Science and Society Research, Pew Research Center, USA