Daima Bukini

Dr. Daima Bukini is a Fogarty African Bioethics Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics. Her research focuses on the ethics of Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) care in Africa, particularly examining Ethical, Legal, and Sociocultural Issues (ELSI) in newborn screening programs. She is also a senior researcher in the Sickle Cell Program at Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS) in Tanzania.

Educational Background:

• BSc in Microbiology (2004) - University of Dar es Salaam
• Master’s in Bioethics (2013) - University of Pennsylvania
• Master’s in Public Health (2014) - MUHAS
• PhD in Bioethics (2022) - MUHAS

Research & Professional Affiliations:

• Member of the ELSI working group for SickleInAfrica and H3Africa Data & Biospecimen Access Committee
• Formerly held a PhD split-site scholarship at the University of Oxford’s Ethox Centre (2018/2019)

Awards:

• Commonwealth PhD Split-Site Scholarship

Labs/Teams: Active in MUHAS’s Sickle Cell Program, focusing on integrating ethical frameworks into healthcare policies for marginalized populations in Africa.