Gloria Mason Ross MBE, Bioethicist
Director, National Research Ethics Board (NREB)
Liberia.
Gloria Mason Ross is trained academically as a bioethicist with over ten years of experience in ethics and regulatory compliance, clinical research management, and protecting human participants in biomedical research. My extensive expertise as a bioethicist, human subject protection specialist, and clinical researcher has helped me play a critical leadership role in structurally transitioning and stabilizing the National Research Ethics Board (NREB) to an ethics institution during and after the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) public health emergency.
As the Executive Director of the West African Consortium for Clinical Research on Epidemic Pathogens (WAC-CREP), a sub-regional body established to strengthen Clinical research and capacity, I have supported harmonizing ethical frameworks and fostered research collaboration in West Africa. With support from the Partnership for Research on Ebola Virus in Liberia (PREVAIL). Faculty at the University of Liberia School of Public Health, College of Health Science, and the Former President of the Network of West African Ethics Committee (NWAEC), a conglomeration of sub-regional ethical institutions established to support National Ethics Committees (NECs) in West Africa.
