Stuart M. Rennie

Stuart M. Rennie is member of the 2018 Guideline Development Group (GDG) of the WHO. The GDG's task is to develop updated recommendations on safe male circumcision for HIV prevention and related service delivery for adolescent boys and men in generalized HIV epidemics.

Biography

The WHO published the following biography of Stuart M. Rennie:

RENNIE, Stuart M

• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States
• MA (Anthropology), PhD (Philosophy)
• Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA

Stuart Rennie is Faculty Associate at the University of North Carolina (UNC) Center for Bioethics and Associate Professor in the UNC Department of Social Medicine, Chapel Hill, USA.

His current interests focus on research ethics, public health ethics and medical ethics in developing countries, primarily in sub-Saharan Africa. He is co-Principal Investigator of two NIH/Fogarty International Center bioethics capacity building projects in Central Francophone Africa and South Africa. At UNC, he teaches bioethics to medical students in the School of Medicine. He is also co-Principal Investigator of a research study on the ethical and social implications of HIV cure research, with study sites in the USA, China and South Africa. He is currently also co-investigator in a NIH study on responsible conduct of HIV research among adolescents in Kenya. He has published on many bioethics themes, including informed consent, HIV testing policies, medical rationing, implementation ethics, research involving children, health surveillance, health inequality and social justice. He was co-lead author of the HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) Ethical Guidance for Research (2009). He has conducted qualitative research on community attitudes towards male circumcision as means of HIV prevention in Malawi, and has published about the ethical dimensions of this public health intervention.