Gonasagrie (Lulu) Nair

Dr Gonasagrie (Lulu) Nair is a senior lecturer in the Centre for Medical Ethics and Law at University of Stellenbosch in South Africa. In this role her current focus is on ethical issues related to the COVID – 19 pandemic including the impact of the pandemic on clinical trial implementation. She is a medical doctor by training and spent her early clinical career in the management of HIV and TB in the public health sector in Durban, KwaZulu Natal, the epicentre of the HIV epidemic in South Africa. Dr Nair has over 19 years of clinical trial implementation experience in the field of HIV and TB treatment and prevention, and her experience with HIV prevention spans oral, topical and injectable strategies. She is currently the protocol chair of a multinational HIV prevention trial of adolescent girls and young women in sub–Saharan Africa.

Dr Nair has been a committee member of 2 biomedical research ethics committees in South Africa and is currently part of the clinical ethics committee of a large teaching hospital. She has an interest in the ethical issues related to provision of adolescent health care in developing countries including contraceptive and STI treatment and prevention. She has a masters degree in public health from the University of KwaZulu Natal and a post graduate diploma in research ethics from the University of Stellenbosch.