Nezerith Cengiz is a ​​bioethics graduate presently working as a junior researcher on the REDSSA project at the Centre for 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 an​d virtue ethics. Other research-related interests include the ethics of xenotransplantation. 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 currently serves on the Tygerberg Hospital Clinical Ethics Committee.

​Dr Gonasagrie (Lulu) Nair

Lulu Nair is a senior lecturer and clinician with a background in public health, clinical trial research in HIV and TB treatme​nt and prevention, GCP training and bioethics. Dr Nair has an impressive publication record and has served on the UKZN REC and the REC of the South African MRC and is currently on the HREC of the Faculty of Medicine and Health. Lulu serves as a co-investigator for the REDSSA project.

Dr Adetayo Emmanuel Obasa

Adetayo Emmanuel Obasa is a medical virologist, lecturer at CMEL and HREC member at Stellenbosch University. He completed a postgraduate diploma in Applied Ethics and is currently completing a Master of Philosophy in Applied Ethics (Bioethics). He serves as a​ researcher for the REDSSA project.

Professor Sharon Kling

Sharon Kling is an emeritus associate professor in the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS), Stellenbosch University. She is a past president of the College of Paediatricians of South Africa and is currently a member of the Executive Committee of the Allergy Society of South Africa (ALLSA). She is a member of both the Clinical Ethics Committee at Tygerberg Hospital and the Undergraduate Research Ethics Committee of the FMHS. She holds an MPhil in Applied Ethics and is currently completing her doctorate, which critically examines the work of clinical ethics committees in South Africa. She serves as a co-investigator for the REDSSA project.

Qunita Brown

Qunita Brown completed her undergraduate studies (BA Degree) and postgraduate studies (Honours Psychology) and (Masters Research Psychology) (Cum Laude) at the University of the Western Cape. Ms Brown has a background working in research in the fields of crime and violence prevention, post-traumatic stress disorder and substance abuse. She currently serves as a research assistant on the REDSSA project.

Siti Kabanda

Siti Kabanda has a Master of Science and a Master of Public Health, both obtained from the University of Cape Town. She currently serves as a research assistant on the REDSSA project.​

Dr Marietjie Botes

Marietjie has transitioned from a 20-year career as a practising attorney in health law and biotechnology to academia focusing on interdisciplinary research in the intersection between science, technology, law, and ethics. She holds the degrees of BProc, LLB, LLM (Intellectual Property Law) and a PhD (Biotechnology Law). Her research interests include the regulation and ethics involved in advanced medical products such as gene therapies, gene and stem cell research, the use of big (geospatial) data in the context of health emergencies and pandemics, Digital Health technologies - in particular with regard to implanted devices such as Brain-Computer Interfaces and their impact on fundamental rights, including online behavioural manipulation and how it shapes debates around digital ethics and its push towards digital constitutionalism. Marietjie published widely on these topics, both nationally and internationally, and serves as co-editor for the special edition on Digital Ethics for the Humanities and Social Sciences Communications Journal (Springer Nature). She is an elected member of ASSAf involved with the second consensus study on gene therapies in South Africa, and one of the invited experts and co-authors of the SA Country Reports on COVID-19 in which she addressed various legal issues with regard to pandemic management. In her free time, Marietjie collaborates with artists and scientists to create comics which she uses to teach and stimulate debate around biotechnology and digital ethics. She serves as the project coordinator for the REDSSA project.​