Daima Athumani Bukini, MPH, MBE, PhD

PhD Research Fellow - Ethics in Genomics Medicine
Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS)
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Ms Bukini has been working at Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS) in Tanzania for the past 14 years. She holds a Masters Degree in Bioethics (University of Pennsylvania) and Masters in Public Health (MUHAS). Currently doing her PhD in the Department of Hematology and Blood Transfusion at MUHAS (2017-2021), investigating the Ethical, Legal and Sociocultural Issues (ELSI) on Newborn Screening (NBS) for Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) in Tanzania. In 2018/ 2019, she was awarded the Commonwealth Split Site Scholarship at the internationally recognized Centre of Bioethics and Humanities, The Ethox Centre of University of Oxford. She is also a member of the ELSI working group for the Sickle in Africa, which forms the Sickle Pan African Research Consortium (SPARCO) and Sickle Africa Data Coordinating Centre (SADaCC).