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Mrs Neetha Morar
Senior Research Manager
Contact Info
Email: Neetha.Morar@mrc.ac.za
Education
MMEDSci

Neetha is a Senior Research Manager at the HIV and other Infectious Diseases Research Unit (HIDRU) of the South African Medical Research Council. Currently, Neetha is working towards understanding the ethical considerations in, access to biomedical interventions and stakeholder engagement by learning from the users of health services and biomedical interventions. She focuses on social science research and stakeholder engagement within clinical trials and observational research. She has managed the dissemination of research results to the communities and stakeholders for HIV prevention clinical trials for the past 20 years. Neetha collaborated with partners to ensure that participants and communities received the results prior to public release. The PrEPVacc trial is the most recent case study of transparent results disseminated to study volunteers and stakeholders where members of the community shared their research experience with the media. She has been a member of the SAMRC Ethics Committee and is currently a member of the Provincial Health Research Ethics Committee (PHRC) of the KwaZulu Department of Health.