Professor Phaik Yeong Cheah, is a Professor of Global Health and bioethicist at the University of Oxford. She is the founder and current head of the Bioethics and Engagement team at the Bangkok based Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU). She conducts research on ethical issues around research involving vulnerable populations such as migrants and children. Her other area of research is how to promote fair and equitable sharing of individual-level health research data, which includes how to ensure that data sharing does not exacerbate existing inequalities between higher- and lower-income setting researchers. Phaik Yeong manages the MORU network’s community and public engagement programme. With colleagues at MORU, she has initiated many engagement activities in Southeast Asia, such as establishing public and community advisory groups and science theatre programmes in Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos. She is a member of the Steering Committee of the Global Forum for Bioethics in Research.