Nchangwi Syntia Munung
Biographic Data
| ID | 4414652 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nchangwi Syntia Munung |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nchangwi Syntia |
| FAMILY NAME | Munung |
| SIGNATURE | MUNUNG N S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cape Town |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1498-3602 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Eco-Bio-Communitarianism and Its Application to Clinical Research, Global Health, Biotechnology, and Environmental Protection
As the world grapples with escalating global health and environmental crises, existing Western bioethics frameworks tend to fall short in addressing the complex interdependencies between human, animal, and ecological health, as well as the diverse cultural and belief systems in many parts of the world. Eco-bio-communitarianism, a bioethics framework informed by an African indigenous worldview, provides a commonsensical, practical, and comprehensi…
Advancing the course of HIV genomics research in Africa
BOX The use of genomics methods and technologies for HIV research and public health holds potential in reducing the HIV burden in sub-Saharan Africa
Do Conflicts Influence the Accumulation of Bonding, Bridging, and Linking Social Capital? Insights From Cameroon
Social capital is known to influence livelihoods, but how this operates in conflict situations is relatively under‐researched. Leaning on the social capital theory, we investigate the association between conflict and the dynamics of bonding, bridging and linking social capital in the neglected “Anglophone” conflict between a separatist movement and the government of Cameroon, which impacts livelihoods and social relations. Using data generated th…
Genomics and Health Data Governance in Africa
Effectively addressing ethical issues in precision medicine research in Africa requires a holistic social contract that integrates biomedical knowledge with local cultural values and Indigenous knowledge systems. Drawing on African epistemologies such as ubuntu and ujamaa and on our collective experiences in genomics and big data research for sickle cell disease, hearing impairment, and fragile X syndrome and the project Public Understanding of B…
Public health use of HIV phylogenetic data in sub-Saharan Africa
Phylogenetic analyses of HIV are an increasingly accurate method of clarifying population-level patterns of transmission and linking individuals or groups with transmission events. Viral genetic data may be used by public health agencies to guide policy interventions focused on clusters of transmission or segments of the population in which transmission is concentrated. Analyses of HIV phylogenetics in high-income countries have often found that …
Caught between pity, explicit bias, and discrimination
The results highlight the importance of challenging stigmatizing narratives on SCD and recognizing that stigmatization represents a social injustice that significantly diminishes the QoL of individuals living with SCD
Informed consent in a tuberculosis genetic study in Cameroon
Concerns around comprehension and recall of consent information by research participants have typically been associated with low health and research literacy levels. In genomics research, this concern is heightened as the scientific and ethical complexities of genetics research, such as biobanking, genetic susceptibility, data sharing, and incidental findings may be more difficult for potential research participants to understand. However, challe…
Towards equitable genomics governance in Africa
The post‐genomics era promises a revolution characterized by precision medicine and the integration of genomics into almost every area of biomedical research. At the same time, there are concerns that if care is not taken, the genomics revolution may widen global inequities in science and health. In Africa, these concerns are primarily linked to the underrepresentation of African populations in genomics research, limited genomics research capacit…
Genomics governance
Lessons from the Ebola epidemics and their applications for Covid‐19 pandemic response in sub‐Saharan Africa
COVID‐19, caused by a novel coronavirus named SARS‐CoV‐2, was identified in December 2019, in Wuhan, China. It was first confirmed in sub‐Saharan Africa in Nigeria on 27 February 2020 and has since spread quickly to all sub‐Saharan African countries, causing more than 111,309 confirmed cases and 2,498 deaths as of 03 June 2020. The lessons learned during the recent Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreaks in some sub‐Saharan African countries were exp…
Priorities for global access to life-saving interventions during public health emergencies
Access to COVID-19-vaccines by the global poor has unveiled the impact of global health and scientific inequities on access to life saving interventions during public health emergencies (PHE). Despite calls for global solidarity to ensure equitable global access to COVID-19 vaccines, wealthy countries both in the north and southern hemisphere may find a charity-based approach more appealing and are using the opportunity to forge neo-colonial coop…
Patient-centric research in the time of Covid-19
Research practices should be ethical and transparent, prioritising patient benefits and provision of health carehealthcare, and respecting participant autonomy.Priority should be given to research studies with the potential for immediate translated patient benefits based on realistic interventions appropriate to an African context. Institutional Ethics Review Boards should be supported to ensure high-quality, rapid review of research proposals. I…
Covid-19
COVID-19 is a very complex pandemic. It has affected individuals, different countries and regions of the world equally in some senses and differently in other senses. While sub-Saharan Africa has weathered a range of outbreaks of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases, the manner in which the COVID-19 pandemic has evolved necessitates some observations, remarks and conclusions from our own situated observation point. Compared to previous ep…
How Should Biobanking Be Governed in Low-Resource Settings
Development of biobanks in Africa raises ethical questions related to particular features of African cancer research contexts, such as underresourced health care and research infrastructures and low-average research literacy. This article describes ethical challenges of informed consent, benefit sharing, and stigmatization and proposes navigating these challenges by developing a comprehensive governance framework to ensure African leadership in b…
Global health inequalities and the need for solidarity
Although the world has experienced remarkable progress in health care since the last half of the 20th century, global health inequalities still persist. In some poor countries life expectancy is between 37‐40 years lower than in rich countries; furthermore, maternal and infant mortality is high and there is lack of access to basic preventive and life‐saving medicines, as well a high prevalence of neglected diseases, HIV / AIDS , tuberculosis, and…
How Often are Ethics Approval and Informed Consent Reported in Publications on Health Research in Cameroon? A Five-Year Review
We assessed the extent of research ethics approval and informed consent reporting in publications emanating from Cameroon and indexed in PubMed from 2005–2009. In our review of 219 full-length articles, we found that 57.53% reported ethics approval, 70.78% informed consent, and 50.68% both ethics approval and informed consent. Reporting these procedures was more common in randomized clinical trials than in other study designs. Also, 59.52% of the…
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How Often are Ethics Approval and Informed Consent Reported in Publications on Health Research in Cameroon? A Five-Year Review
We assessed the extent of research ethics approval and informed consent reporting in publications emanating from Cameroon and indexed in PubMed from 2005–2009. In our review of 219 full-length articles, we found that 57.53% reported ethics approval, 70.78% informed consent, and 50.68% both ethics approval and informed consent. Reporting these procedures was more common in randomized clinical trials than in other study designs. Also, 59.52% of the…
Global health inequalities and the need for solidarity
Although the world has experienced remarkable progress in health care since the last half of the 20th century, global health inequalities still persist. In some poor countries life expectancy is between 37‐40 years lower than in rich countries; furthermore, maternal and infant mortality is high and there is lack of access to basic preventive and life‐saving medicines, as well a high prevalence of neglected diseases, HIV / AIDS , tuberculosis, and…
Patient-centric research in the time of Covid-19
Research practices should be ethical and transparent, prioritising patient benefits and provision of health carehealthcare, and respecting participant autonomy.Priority should be given to research studies with the potential for immediate translated patient benefits based on realistic interventions appropriate to an African context. Institutional Ethics Review Boards should be supported to ensure high-quality, rapid review of research proposals. I…
Covid-19
COVID-19 is a very complex pandemic. It has affected individuals, different countries and regions of the world equally in some senses and differently in other senses. While sub-Saharan Africa has weathered a range of outbreaks of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases, the manner in which the COVID-19 pandemic has evolved necessitates some observations, remarks and conclusions from our own situated observation point. Compared to previous ep…
How Should Biobanking Be Governed in Low-Resource Settings
Development of biobanks in Africa raises ethical questions related to particular features of African cancer research contexts, such as underresourced health care and research infrastructures and low-average research literacy. This article describes ethical challenges of informed consent, benefit sharing, and stigmatization and proposes navigating these challenges by developing a comprehensive governance framework to ensure African leadership in b…
Genomics governance
Lessons from the Ebola epidemics and their applications for Covid‐19 pandemic response in sub‐Saharan Africa
COVID‐19, caused by a novel coronavirus named SARS‐CoV‐2, was identified in December 2019, in Wuhan, China. It was first confirmed in sub‐Saharan Africa in Nigeria on 27 February 2020 and has since spread quickly to all sub‐Saharan African countries, causing more than 111,309 confirmed cases and 2,498 deaths as of 03 June 2020. The lessons learned during the recent Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreaks in some sub‐Saharan African countries were exp…
Priorities for global access to life-saving interventions during public health emergencies
Access to COVID-19-vaccines by the global poor has unveiled the impact of global health and scientific inequities on access to life saving interventions during public health emergencies (PHE). Despite calls for global solidarity to ensure equitable global access to COVID-19 vaccines, wealthy countries both in the north and southern hemisphere may find a charity-based approach more appealing and are using the opportunity to forge neo-colonial coop…
Informed consent in a tuberculosis genetic study in Cameroon
Concerns around comprehension and recall of consent information by research participants have typically been associated with low health and research literacy levels. In genomics research, this concern is heightened as the scientific and ethical complexities of genetics research, such as biobanking, genetic susceptibility, data sharing, and incidental findings may be more difficult for potential research participants to understand. However, challe…
Towards equitable genomics governance in Africa
The post‐genomics era promises a revolution characterized by precision medicine and the integration of genomics into almost every area of biomedical research. At the same time, there are concerns that if care is not taken, the genomics revolution may widen global inequities in science and health. In Africa, these concerns are primarily linked to the underrepresentation of African populations in genomics research, limited genomics research capacit…
Public health use of HIV phylogenetic data in sub-Saharan Africa
Phylogenetic analyses of HIV are an increasingly accurate method of clarifying population-level patterns of transmission and linking individuals or groups with transmission events. Viral genetic data may be used by public health agencies to guide policy interventions focused on clusters of transmission or segments of the population in which transmission is concentrated. Analyses of HIV phylogenetics in high-income countries have often found that …
Caught between pity, explicit bias, and discrimination
The results highlight the importance of challenging stigmatizing narratives on SCD and recognizing that stigmatization represents a social injustice that significantly diminishes the QoL of individuals living with SCD
Genomics and Health Data Governance in Africa
Effectively addressing ethical issues in precision medicine research in Africa requires a holistic social contract that integrates biomedical knowledge with local cultural values and Indigenous knowledge systems. Drawing on African epistemologies such as ubuntu and ujamaa and on our collective experiences in genomics and big data research for sickle cell disease, hearing impairment, and fragile X syndrome and the project Public Understanding of B…
Advancing the course of HIV genomics research in Africa
BOX The use of genomics methods and technologies for HIV research and public health holds potential in reducing the HIV burden in sub-Saharan Africa
Do Conflicts Influence the Accumulation of Bonding, Bridging, and Linking Social Capital? Insights From Cameroon
Social capital is known to influence livelihoods, but how this operates in conflict situations is relatively under‐researched. Leaning on the social capital theory, we investigate the association between conflict and the dynamics of bonding, bridging and linking social capital in the neglected “Anglophone” conflict between a separatist movement and the government of Cameroon, which impacts livelihoods and social relations. Using data generated th…
Eco-Bio-Communitarianism and Its Application to Clinical Research, Global Health, Biotechnology, and Environmental Protection
As the world grapples with escalating global health and environmental crises, existing Western bioethics frameworks tend to fall short in addressing the complex interdependencies between human, animal, and ecological health, as well as the diverse cultural and belief systems in many parts of the world. Eco-bio-communitarianism, a bioethics framework informed by an African indigenous worldview, provides a commonsensical, practical, and comprehensi…
Medicine (13 works) · Political science (9 works) · Public health (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Ethics in Clinical Research (6 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Global health (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research (5 works)