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Professor Annelize McKay serves as Professor of International Law and Bioethics and Head of the Division of Law within Dundee Business School at Abertay University. She is also an Extraordinary Professor in the Department of Public Law at the University of Pretoria. Her academic qualifications include a BA (Hons) in English Literature and Literary Theory, LLB, LLM, Diploma in Datametrics, and a PhD. Prior to her current role, she was Head of the Department of Public Law at the University of Pretoria. Annelize McKay previously practiced as an advocate and is a member of the Centre for Human Rights, a South African-based NGO. In 2003, she was awarded a scholarship by the USA National Institutes of Health to visit Yale University’s School of Medicine, where she enrolled in courses on bioethics, virology, and epidemiology and conducted research for her doctoral thesis.

Professor McKay's research interests focus on medical law and bioethics, public international law, regulation of health data sharing particularly in Africa, data governance during public health emergencies, and protections for participants in health research. She has produced over 50 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, often under her maiden name Annelize Nienaber, and co-authored two student textbooks. Key publications include "The regulation of health data sharing in Africa: a comparative study" (2024, Journal of Law and the Biosciences), "Covid-19 and its implications for the law of non-international armed conflict: the case of Mozambique" (2024, Routledge), "What constitutes adequate legal protection for the collection, use and sharing of mobility and location data in health care in South Africa?" (2023), "Data sharing governance in sub-Saharan Africa during public health emergencies: Gaps and guidance" (2023, South African Journal of Science), and "Race in health research: considerations for researchers and research ethics committees" (2023, South African Journal of Bioethics and Law). She has presented conference papers and keynote addresses at more than 30 national and international conferences. Professionally, she is Deputy Editor of the Journal of Contemporary Roman Dutch Law, Editor of the African Human Rights Law Journal, Deputy Chairperson of a South African university’s medical faculty Research Ethics Committee, and provides advice to a fertility clinic on ethical issues. She is a member of the International Association of Bioethics and the International Law Association.