Recent global advances in medicine, genomics, neuroscience, molecular biology, robotics and artificial intelligence promise to transform humans’ ability to preserve health and wellbeing. They also have the capacity to radically alter what it means to be human. Taken together, these developments raise profound ethical questions relating to justice, relationality, autonomy, the role and governance of science in society, the rights and duties of individuals and communities and ultimately, what it means to live well together

If you’re excited by new and emerging health technologies, and eager to explore how concepts and thinking from the African humanities can help us address these complex ethical questions, then we want you!

Applications are now open for UCT’s new Master of Science in Global Health Ethics: a two-year, coursework and dissertation programme offered by the Department of Medicine’s EthicsLab, based in the Neuroscience Institute

Year 1 Year 2
  • MDN5010F Interrogating the Landscape of Global Health Ethics (10credits)
  • MDN5014F Research with Underrepresented Communities (16 credits)
  • MDN5011F Global Health and African Humanities (30 credits)
  • MDN5015F Special Topics in Health Research Ethics (16 credits)
  • MDN5013W Methods and Practice of Global Health Research Ethics (30 credits)
  • MDN5016W Minor Dissertation (60 credits)
  • MDN5012S The Ethics of New and Emerging Health Technologies (18 credits)