Ibrahim Garba, SJD, LLM, MA, JD
Karai-Karai (Nigeria)
Pronouns: He/Him
Positions(s):
Assistant Research Professor, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health at the University of Arizona
Senior Researcher, Native Nations Institute at the University of Arizona
Email me at garbai@email.arizona.edu
Ibrahim Garba, MA, JD, SJD, is Assistant Research Professor (Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health) and Senior Researcher (Native Nations Institute) at the University of Arizona. He has graduate training in philosophy and international human rights law. He has also completed fellowships in bioethics and health policy. His legal scholarship has explored the evolution of collective rights in international law. His current research assesses the capacity of international human rights law to provide an ethics framework for the governance of data from Indigenous Peoples for research and other uses.
Publication(s):
Garba, I., Sterling, R., Plevel, R., Carson, W., Cordova-Marks, F.M., Cummins, J., Curley, C., David-Chavez, D., Fernandez, A., Hiraldo, D. and Hiratsuka, V., 2023. Indigenous Peoples and research: self-determination in research governance. Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics, 8, p.1272318. Link: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/research-metrics-and-analytics/articles/10.3389/frma.2023.1272318/full
Projects(s):
Tribal Research Governance Project (Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy): an in-depth inductive analysis of law and policy from 20+ Tribes in the US governing research on their lands and with their citizens / members. Ethical Governance of Indigenous Data at Academic Research Institutions (National Science Foundation): a multi-faceted research project using an Indigenous Data Sovereignty framework to analyze and assess governance of Indigenous data at universities in the US with comparisons to similar institutions in Canada, Australia, and Aotearoa New Zealand.