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0204007000 off Waiyaki Way, Upper Kabete nsec@nacosti.go.ke National Science and Ethical Committee NACOSTI HomeVision, Mission and Core Values Mandate Standard Operating Procedures Strategic Plan ISERCs ISERCs overview ISERC Profiles ISERC Chairs ISERC Secretaries Accredited ISERCs in Kenya Existing ISERCs in East Africa Kenya Uganda Tanzania Democratic Republic of the Congo Rwanda Pharmacy and Poisons Board Clinical Trials Expert Committee On Clinical Trials (ECCT) Resource Centre Downloads Reports Gallery Video Events Accreditation Apply for Accreditation or Renewal for Accreditation Accreditation Guidelines Curriculum for IERC Members Contact Us UNIVERSITIES CHALLENGED TO MAKE USE OF UNESCO RESEARCH INSTRUMENTS Prof. Hubert Gijzen, the Director and Representative of UNESCO Regional Office for Eastern Africa has called on researchers to contribute to the dissemination of UNESCO’s normative instruments. He spoke on September 28, 2022, during the official opening of the 2nd Joint Annual Research Ethics Conference which is co-hosted by Daystar University, the National Commission for Science, Technology, and Innovation (NACOSTI), and Daystar University Institutional Scientific and Ethics Review Committee (DU-ISERC). NBC STRATEGIC PLAN DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP 24/01/2019 Brief history about NSEC The research activities have continued to grow in number and complexity in Kenya. Due to this, it became necessary to institutionalize and mainstream research ethics issues in the country. As a start, only Kenyatta National Hospital had a committee, KEMRI then established a committee which called itself National Ethics Committees. Other Committees came up in Moi University, Nyanza region, and at the Coast. They were under the Medical Directorate in the Ministry of Health. In 2009, UNESCO was engaged and it was decided that guidelines for accrediting these Committees should be developed. The National Bioethics Committee (NBC) was thus formed under Health Science Schedule and members appointed in 2010. NBC is anchored under the section 9 of the Science, Technology, and Innovation (ST&I) Act, No 28 of 2013. In November 2021, the mandate of NBC was expanded and renamed to National Scienntific and Ethical Review Committee (NSEC) National Scientific and Ethics Committee (NSEC) is one of the institutional frameworks established to ensure that NACOSTI will continue to engage and mainstream the highest ethical standards in research. NSEC was developed in line with NACOSTI to focus on all research as a response to the provisions of the Constitution of Kenya as well as new encounters being experienced in research. National Scientific and Ethics Committee (NSEC) was created by NACOSTI to offer guidelines and create accreditation standards for Institutional Ethics Review Committees (ISERCs) to adhere to for their accreditation process to be successful. NSEC is committed to enabling and supporting ethical research in Kenya. It protects the rights, safety, dignity and wellbeing of research participants. We have a duty to provide an efficient and robust ethics review service that maximises Kenya’s competitiveness for health research and maximises the return from investment in Kenya, while protecting participants and researchers. In fulfilling its mandate of assuring quality in research, NACOSTI has delegated the task of ethical clearance in research proposals to Institutional Ethics Review Committees (ISERCs) to National Scientific and Ethics Committee (NSEC). READ MORE Accreditation Apply for Accreditation or Renewal for Accreditation Apply Now Accreditation Guidelines Read More Curriculum for IERC Members Read More National Scientific and Ethics Committee Membership Team PROF ALICE K. MUTUNGI Chairperson NSEC Kenya Methodist University PROF. JULIUS KIPKEMBOI, PHD Member Kaimosi Friend’s University PROF. VIOLET NAANYU Member Moi University DR. JANE WATHUTA Member Strathmore University PROF. THOMAS REWE Member Great Lakes University of Kisumu DR. CAROLINE NASAMBU WAFULA Member Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral Hospital PROF. GORDON NGUKA Member Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology DR. LILLIAN OMUTOKO Member University of Nairobi ORPHA NYAKUNDI Member Kenya National Commission for UNESCO DR. OTTA OSAWA Member TVETA DR. HASTINGS OZWARA Member Institute of Primate Research PROF. MARY ABUKUTSA Member Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology MR. DANIEL RANDA Member Siaya Institute of Technology REV. FRALLYSTONE OMUSULA Member Nairobi Baptist Church WHAT’S NEW? Latest News June 19, 2018 Digital Marketing When, while the lovely valley teems with vapor around me, and the meridian sun strikes the ... Read More June 19, 2018 Workplace Distractions When, while the lovely valley teems with vapor around me, and the meridian sun strikes the ... 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