Francis Kombe is a Public Health, Bioethics and Research Integrity practitioner. He has a wealth of experience working in international health research institutions and has held various leadership positions.

Kombe holds a Master of Social Science in Health Research Ethics from the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), South Africa, a Master of Public Health and a Postgraduate Diploma in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine-UK (LSHTM) and he is currently pursuing a Wellcome Trust-funded PhD at UKZN, focusing on Research Integrity.

Before joining EthiXPERT, Kombe worked as the project lead consultant for the COHRED’S project- RHInnO Ethics Africa, which aimed to build research ethics review capacities in Africa, and was a training coordinator at the KWTRP where he was involved in the strategic development and planning of health research fieldworkers.

He is a founding and steering committee member of the African Research Integrity Network (ARIN) and programme committee member of the 6th and 7th World Conference on Research Integrity. He is a UNESCO-appointed Member of the International Forum of Teachers of Bioethics and the 2015 Pillars of PRIM&R Award winner (http://blog.primr.org/meet-2014-15-pillars-of-prim-award/). He has published widely in community engagement, performance management of health research fieldworkers, research integrity, fair study benefits and informed consent, among others.