Professor Joseph Mfutso-Bengo

Biography

Professor Joseph-Mathews Mfutso-Bengo is Professor of Bioethics and Community Health at the College of Medicine, University of Malawi.

He received his MA from Jesuit-run Innsbruck University in Austria and his doctorate degree in Applied Ethics and Practical Theology from the University of Regensburg in Germany. He completed postdoctoral advanced training in medical ethics and law at University of Regensburg and postdoctoral training in research ethics at the Johns Hopkins Berman Bioethics Institute.

The professor conducts empirical research in bioethics, culture and health policy. His publications address HIV/AIDS policy and ethics, ethics of genetics, informed consent, and political and environmental ethics. He is the Secretary of the College of Medicine Research and Ethics Committee and is the member of National Health Science Committee.Internationally, he is one of the advisors to the John Hopkins Fogarty Bioethics Training Program for African Professionals, a member of NIAD DSMB and is Director of University of Malawi/Michigan State University Fogarty Bioethics training Program for Southern and Eastern Africa.He is the principal investigator of the Wellcome Trust-funded Anthropological-Bioethics research project.He speaks German, English, Chichewa and Italian, and has published widely on research ethics and bioethics in the local and international journals.