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DR DAVID NDERITU

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Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
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DEPT OF PHILO,HIST AND RELIGIOUS STUDIES
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Philosophy
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3503
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P.O. Box 536-20115 Egerton, Kenya
SUMMARY

Dr. David Nderitu is a Lecturer at the Department of Philosophy, History and Religious Studies, Egerton University. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy (Urbaniana Pontifical University-2006), Master of Philosophy in Philosophy (Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya-2011),   Master of Science in International Health Research Ethics (Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya-2015), and Doctor of Philosophy in Philosophy (Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya-2019).   Currently he is serving as a member of the Egerton University Research Ethics Committee. He has attended several local and International trainings in Ethics, Research Ethics and Bioethics including Bioethics and Research Ethics Committee Administration training (WIRB Washington Seattle and New York University, USA 2019), Ethics Teacher Training Course (Kenya National Commission for UNESCO and the UNESCO Bioethics Chair at Egerton University- 2015), Teaching Skills in International Research Ethics (Indiana University & Moi University-2012),                              

Practicum in Research Ethics & Research Coordinator Education Program (Indiana University,   Indianapolis, USA). He has been involved in several collaborative projects and has won fellowships and grants such as the Wellcome Trust Travel Grant through the Global Forum on Bioethics in Research (GFBR) and the Western Institutional Review Board (WIRB) International Fellowship. He has contributed made several scientific publications and he is member of several professional associations.

ORCID
https://orcid.org/ 0000-0002-7568-2224
LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-nderitu-08858323
Researchgate
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David-Nderitu
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

2019: PhD in Philosophy - Moi University, Kenya

2015: Master of Science in International Health Research Ethics - Moi University, Kenya

2011: Master of Philosophy in Philosophy - Moi University, Kenya

2006: Bachelor of Arts (Philosophy) - Urbaniana Pontifical University

2006: Diploma in Philosophy and Religious Studies- Consolata Institute of Philosophy, Nairobi Kenya

FIELDS OF SPECIALIZATION
  • Moral Philosophy
  • Bioethics
  • Research Ethics
  • African Indigenous Worldviews and Philosophy
PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
  • Sept 2011: Certificate of Research Coordinator Education Program at Indiana University School of Nursing, Indianapolis, Indiana USA
  • Sept-Oct 2011: Certificate of Practicum in Research Ethics at Indiana University Center for Bioethics, Indianapolis, Indiana USA
  • Feb 2012: Certificate of Teaching Skills in International Research Ethics by Indiana University and Moi University at Moi University, Eldoret Kenya 
  • August 2015; Ethics Teacher Training Course  by the Kenya National Commission for UNESCO and UNESCO Bioethics Regional Chair at Egerton University
  • December 2017 Capacity Building Workshop for Research Ethics Committees- Kenya National Commission for UNESCO
  • September 2018 Certificate Course in Research Ethics for Ethics Review Committees- NACOSTI
  • March-August 2019: Bioethics and Research Ethics Committee administration training/fellowship at WIRB in Washington State and New York University, USA
  • October-November 2019 Trainer for a Certificate Course in Research Ethics for Ethics Review Committees- NACOSTI
  • September 2020: Tech for Good: The Role of ICT in Achieving SDGs     SDG AcademyX
  •  April 2021: Data Ethics, AI and Responsible Innovation   by  University of EdinburgX
WORK EXPERIENCE

August 2021- Current- Lecturer of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, History and Religious Studies, Egerton University, Njoro, Kenya

September 2014- August 2021: Assistant Lecturer of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, History and Religious Studies, Egerton University, Njoro, Kenya

2012-2014: Part-time Lecturer, (Philosophy)-Moi University, Department of Philosophy, Religion and Theology

May 2015-May 2017: Departmental Philosophy and Religious Studies Components Examination Officer

August 2017 to date: Member of Egerton University Research Ethics Committee

06 September 2021 to March 2022 : Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Representative to the Board of Undergraduate Studies 

March 2022 to date:  Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Representative to the Board of Graduate Studies

30th November 2021 to date: Vice-Chairperson of the Egerton University Institutional Scientific and Ethics Committee

10th May 2022 to date: UNESCO Chair in Bioethics at Egerton University and Regional Documentation Centre coordinator  

 

KEY PROJECTS

Kenya youth and Empowerment: A Pilot Assessment of Uasin Gishu and Cherang’any. For Church World Service- Eastern Africa- December 2011-May 2012. Research Team: Prof. Eunice Kamaara (Moi University), Emily Choge (Moi University), David Nderitu

Evaluating Existence, Roles and Functions of Hospital Ethics Committees in Kenya: A Study Based on Selected Hospitals

PI: Dr. Ramadhan Mawenzi (Egerton University)     Co-PI’s: Julius Kipkemboi (UNESCO Regional Centre for Documentation and Research on Bioethics, Egerton University), David Nderitu (Egerton University), Stephen Muhudhia (Nairobi Hospital), Orpha Nyakundi (Kenya National Commission for UNESCO), Joel Ongoto (Kenya National Commission for UNESCO)

The cultural value of human tissues for select indigenous African communities and implications for bio-banking. David Nderitu (Egerton University) and Dr. Claudia I. Emerson (McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada). Fellowship Funded by Wellcome Trust through the Global Forum on Bioethics in Research (GFBR) held at the Institute on Ethics and Policy for Innovation at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada 2019.

Early Career Researcher for the Ethics in Mental Health Digital Innovations for Young People in Africa (EMDIYA) Project- EMDIYA) Network is a group of expert Academics, Advisors and Consultants, Industry partners, Early Career Researchers, and Young People all focused on developing a robust framework for responsible and relevant digital mental health interventions for young people in African countries. The network is funded by a UKRI GCRF Digital Innovation for Development in Africa grant. The Project is Coordinated at the University of Oxford with the African PIs based at Moi University (Kenya), University of Ghana, University of Zimbabwe, Makerere University, CeSHHAR Zimbabwe, and the University of Kwazulu Natal (South Africa). The first phase of the Project is 2020-2021. See https://neurogene.org/groups/emdiya/

Co-Investigator, NeuroGenE Small Grant Call 2020/2021. Title of the Project: IDENTITY AND PERSONHOOD OF AFRICAN YOUNG PEOPLE: ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR DIGITAL INNOVATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH. Name of Principal Investigator: Eunice Kamaara- Moi University, Department of Philosophy, Religion and Theology. Co-investigator(s):David Nderitu-Egerton University, Department of Philosophy, History and Religion, Sarah Wawa-Consultant Psychiatrist, Machakos Level 5 Hospital, Tracy Magoma-Customer Experience Executive, Safaricom Kenya. Duration September 2020-August 2021. Sponsor: Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford and Global Initiative in Neuropsychiatric GenEthics. Host Institution: Moi University, Kenya 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Bioethics, Research ethics in Africa, African indigenous world views 

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
  1. Nderitu, D., & Emerson, C. (2023). The indigenous African cultural value of human tissues and implications for bio‐banking. Developing World Bioethics, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1111/dewb.12390 

  2. Godwin Pancras, Mangi Ezekiel, David Nderitu, Erasto Mbugi and Jon F. Merz (2022). Can HIV vaccines be shared fairly? Perspectives from Tanzania. BMC Medical Ethics (2022) 23:135. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12910-022-00874-w 

  3. Nderitu, D., Kipkemboi, J. (2022). Corruption and Under-Development in Africa: An Indictment of African Religiosity?. In: Chitando, E., Kamaara, E. (eds) Values, Identity, and Sustainable Development in Africa. Sustainable Development Goals Series. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12938-4_11
  4. D'Souza J, Nderitu D. Ethical considerations for the modification of routine human papillomavirus immunisation schedules. Lancet Oncol. 2022 Jun 20:S1470-2045(22)00367-9. doi: 10.1016/S1470-2045(22)00367-9. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35738289. 
  5. Pancras, G., Ezekiel, M., Nderitu, D., Dauda, B., & Mbugi, E. V. (2022). “By only considering the end product it means that our participation has always been in vain”: Defining benefits in HIV vaccine trials in Tanzania. Developing World Bioethics, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1111/dewb.12359
  6. D’Souza Jeff, Nderitu David. Ethical considerations for introducing RTS,S/AS01 in countries with moderate to high Plasmodium falciparum malaria transmission. The Lancet Global Health, Volume 9, Issue 12, December 2021, Pages e1642-e1643. (commentary) https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(21)00498-8
  7. D’Souza J, Kamaara E, Nderitu D. “All in this together”: the global duty to contribute towards combating the Covid-19 pandemic. Indian J Med Ethics. Published online first on October 13, 2021.DOI: 10.20529/IJME. 2021.078 
  8. Nderitu D, Kamaara E. Gambling with COVID-19 Makes More Sense: Ethical and Practical Challenges in COVID-19   Responses in Communalistic Resource-Limited African. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry.https://doi.org/10.1007/s11673-020-10002-1
  9. Nderitu D. The Meaning of Human Person in the African Context in The Palgrave Handbook of African Social Ethics N. Wariboko, T. Falola (eds.). 2020 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36490-8_6
  10. Nderitu D, Kamaara E. The Aristotelian model of friendship and IU-Kenya Partnership. Indian J Med Ethics. 2020 Jan DOI: 10.20529/IJME. 2020.001
  11. Ramadhan Mawenzi, Julius Kipkemboi, David Nderitu, Stephen O. Muhudhia, Joel Ongoto, Orpha Nyakundi. Hospital Ethics Committees in Kenya: a situational Analysis of their existence and ethical dilemmas in selected level four to six hospitals. Revista Redbioetica/UNESCO. Red Latinoamericana y del Caribe de Bioetica/UNESCO. Ano 10, Vol.1 No.19, enero-junio de 2019
  12. Nderitu D, Kamaara E. An analysis of India’s 2017 National Ethical Guidelines for Biomedical and Health Research Involving Human Participants: The Social and Behavioural Sciences aspect. Indian J Med Ethics. 2018 Jul-Sep;3 (3) NS:210-14. DOI: 10.20529/IJME. 2018.067
  13. David Nderitu and Eunice Kamaara. Traditional and Emerging Cultures of Greetings in Kenya. Chapter in a Book (Chapter 28) Lugha na Fasihi Katika Karne ya Ishirini na Moja. Eds. Mosol Kandagor, Nathan Ogechi and Clarisa Vierke. Eldoret: Moi University Press, 2017 pp. 357-374
  14. Nderitu D., Mungiki: Wanjiku Expression of Self. A Chapter in a book entitled, “Wanjiku: A Kenyan socio-political Discourse” eds. Naomi L. Shitemi and Eunice Kamaara. Contact Zones Nairobi, Goethe Institut, Kenya, 2014
  15. Nderitu D., Shitemi N., and Kamaara E. (2013). Is there “Therapeutic Misconception” in HIV/AIDS and Clinical Research in Western Kenya? Journal of AIDS and clinical Research 4: 225. doi:10.4172/2155-6113.1000225
  16. Wahome, M. P.N & Nderitu, D., Ethical Implications in Medical Research. A Chapter in a book entitled, “Contemporary Issues in Philosophy, Religion and Theology” eds. J.K. Kahiga and M. N. Wanyama. Eldoret: Utafiti Foundations, 2013
  17. Nderitu, D., Knowledge is Virtue no more: The Case of Contemporary Kenyan ‘Educated’. A Chapter in a book entitled, “Contemporary Issues in Philosophy, Religion and Theology” eds. J.K. Kahiga and M. N. Wanyama. Eldoret: Utafiti Foundations, 2013
  18. David Nderitu. Coronavirus poses ethical concerns: a view on the choices being made in Kenya. The Conversation April 22, 2020 4.36pm SAST(OP Ed)   https://theconversation.com/coronavirus-poses-ethical-concerns-a-view-on-the-choices-being-made-in-kenya-135338
CONFERENCES & INVITED PRESENTATIONS

  1. The proverbial black box that is ethics of AI in global health research: Are our Kenyan RECs well equipped to review ethics? Brenda Odero and David Nderitu. Global Forum on Bioethics in Research, 29th-30th November, 2022- Cape Town, South Africa.

  2. Personhood, Privacy, and Spirituality: Neuroethics of digital mental health innovations for youth in Africa. Eunice Kamaara, David Nderitu, Eric Masese, Lucy Kiyiapi, Sarah Wawa, Dismas Oketch, Julius Sigei, Lukoye Atwoli. International Neuroethics Society Annual Conference. November 2-4, 2022, Montreal, Canada
  3. COVID-19 and Digital Innovations for youth mental health in Kenya. Eunice Kamaara, David Nderitu, Sarah Wawa, Tracy Magoma. 5th Bioethics Society of Kenya Confereence (Virtual). Theme: Bioethics and Pandemics-Lessons from COVID-19, 11th and 12th March, 2021
  4. The Underlying oral and communal culture in Africa and implication for informed consent standard in healthcare and health research. David Nderitu and Eunice Kamaara. Poster presented during the World Congress on Bioethics and Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, 2020 virtual conference, 19-21 June, 2020- University of Pennsylvania, Philadephia, USA
  5. Sensitization on Hospital Ethics Committees, functions, roles and responsibilities, to various national stakeholders in including the Ministry of Health, County Governments, Hospital administrations, Researchers and academics at the Kenya School of Monetary Studies, Nairobi, 29th-30th October 2018.
  6. The good and the bad of global North-South collaborative health engagements: the case of IU-Kenya Partnership. David Nderitu and Eunice Kamaara. Presented during the Joint 14th World Congress of Bioethics and 7th National Bioethics Conference in Bangalore, India 3-7 December 2018
  7. CIOMS (2016) guidance on data sharing and bio-banking: an analysis in view of the place of the human body in the African ontology of nature. David Nderitu. A poster presented during the Global Forum on Bioethics in Research meeting held in Stellenbosch, South Africa on 13-14 November 2018
  8. Kenya National Guidelines on Alternative Clinical Trial Designs. David Nderitu. A poster presented during the Global Forum on Bioethics in Research meeting held in Bangkok, Thailand 28-29 November 2017
  9. Relevance of the Principle of Respect for Autonomy in the Context of African Communalism and African Ontology of a Person. David Nderitu. A Presentation during the Postgraduate Bioethics Conference, St. Catherine’s College, Oxford University, 4th-5th September 2017
  10. Ethics of Research in Pregnancy in Kenya. David Nderitu. A paper presented during the Pecha Kucha session of the Global Forum on Bioethics in Research meeting held in Buenos Aires, Argentina on 3-4 November 2016
  11. An Evaluation of Aristotelian view on Friendship among Unequal Parties in the Light of Collaborative Health Research between Kenya and the USA. David Nderitu. A paper presented during the Midwest Philosophy Conference in Omaha, Nebraska-USA on 15th-17th April 2016
  12. Implication of Implicit Consent in Teaching Public Hospitals in Kenya. By David Nderitu. A paper presented during the Inaugural Bioethics Society of Kenya Conference on 16th-17th December 2015 at the Kenyatta University Conference Centre.
  13. Challenges of International Health Research Ethics in Kenya. By David Nderitu and Eunice Kamaara. Paper prepared for Organization for Social Sciences Research in Eastern Africa (OSSREA) Kenya National Workshop 3rd – 4th December, 2012.
  14. Ethnicity in the City: The Urban Youth at Crossroads or a Ray of Hope for Negative Ethnicity in Kenya? David Nderitu-MU-IUPUI Symposium on Peace, May 2010.
  15. Post-Election Violence in Kenya: Mending the Scars Though Leisure Activities among the Youth- David Nderitu. MU-IUPUI Symposium on Peace, May 2010.
  16. Ethical Issues in Medical Knowledge and Research- Dr. Mary Wahome and David Nderitu. Moi University 6th Annual International Conference-7th -10th September, 2010.
  17. Knowledge is Virtue No More: The Case of Contemporary Kenyan Elites. Moi University 6th Annual International Conference--7th -10th September, 2010.
  18. Religion and Politics in Kenya: Trends, Prospects and Challenges by Prof. Cletus N. Chukwu and David Nderitu. Paper Presented During the Moi University 5th Annual International Conference - 4th -8th August 2009.
HONORS, PRIZE AND AWARDS

Grants and awards: 

  1. Wellcome Trust Travel Grant for the Global Forum on Bioethics in Research (GFBR) to the Institute on Ethics and Policy for Innovation at McMaster University in Hamilton Ontario, Canada, November 2019
  2. Western Institutional Review Board International Fellowship for Research Ethics and Bioethics including Bioethics and Research Ethics Committee Administration training (WIRB Washington Seattle and New York University, USA 2019)
TEACHING AREAS

Ethics, Applied Ethics (Bioethics and Research Ethics), Ancient Philosophy, Medieval Philosophy, African Philosophy, Critical Thinking

POSTGRADUATE SUPERVISION
MASTERS LEVEL :

 

1. Willy Kimutai Chumo Korir AM15/14356/15. Master of Arts in Philosophy. Proposal Topic: IDEOLOGICAL BASIS FOR ETHNIC CONFLICTS IN NANDI-KISUMU BORDER, KENYA 

2. Rose Waithira Karanja AM14/14650/18. Master of Arts in Religion. Proposal Topic: THE CHURCH AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: A CASE OF PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF EAST AFRICA IN LAIKIPIA SUB-COUNTY, KENYA

3. Joy Nkatha Gichuru AM14/09074/20. Master of Arts in Religion. Proposal Topic: CHRISTIANITY AND THE USE OF COSMETICS IN NJORO SUB-COUNTY, NAKURU, KENYA

 

 

 

 

OTHER SOCIETIES
  1. Member of Bioethics Society of Kenya
  2. Member of Christian and Scientific association of Kenya

 

REFEREES

Eunice Kamaara, PhD

Professor of Religion

Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies,

Moi University, P.O. Box 3900, Eldoret-Kenya

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Julius Kipkemboi PhD,

Ag. Deputy Vice Chancellor Academic and Student Affairs (ASA)

Kaimosi Friends University,

P.O. Box 385-50309 Kaimosi, Kenya

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Joshua O. Ayiemba, PhD

Chairperson, Department of Philosophy, History and Religious Studies

Egerton University,

P.O. Box 536-20115

Egerton-Kenya

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