EBI Public Lecture 2024 - Facts, Fakes, Society and Health, with Patricia Kingori

The talk starts at 6:48 into the recording.

Our 2024 Annual Public Lecture was given by Patricia Kingori on Monday 22 January at City Hall Bristol.

Patricia Kingori is Professor of Global Health Ethics at the Nuffield Department of Population Health, Wellcome Senior Investigator, and Senior Research Fellow at Somerville College, University of Oxford.

A sociologist with over twenty years of experience, Patricia has been a member of academic staff at the University of Oxford since 2012. She leads a team of researchers exploring concerns around fakes, fabrications and falsehoods in Global Health. In this lecture she shared her important work into how people, places and processes are involved in the complexities of falsehoods.

As a Professor and Senior Investigator at the Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities (WEH) and the Ethox Centre, University of Oxford, her work has focused on understanding the practice and motivations of data fabrication and academic malpractice more generally. She has acted as an advisor on the ethical conduct of research and intervention in the UK and in LMICs on the ethical treatment of frontline staff to numerous organisations including the WHO, Save the Children, the Medical Research Council, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders and the Nuffield Council of Bioethics. In 2021 Patricia became one of the youngest women to be awarded a Full Professor in Oxford’s 925 year history. She has published widely in academic journals and received a Merit Award from the University of Oxford for her standards of academic excellence.