Takunda Matose, MBe, PhD

I am a researcher and bioethicist focused on healthcare justice, health inequalities and research ethics. I also study the ethical, legal and social implications of genetic and genomic research. I have been a researcher for over 16 years and began working at Cincinnati Children's in 2024.

My research explores how the complex conceptual and physiological dimensions of social categories like race, gender and disability influence people's motivations for seeking healthcare and how that impacts health outcomes. I also aim to determine what we owe them as a matter of healthcare justice.

I began thinking about this area of research when I realized that some health problems can only be understood by looking beyond individual patients to the health of the populations they belong to. This interest led me to explore the social dynamics that impact personal health.

It has been my honor to receive the Donchin and Holmes Emerging Scholar Prize from the International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (2022), the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director's Award (2016) and to be named the Edmond J. Safra Joint Fellow-in-Residence at Harvard University and Harvard Medical School (2022).