Dr Zinhle Mncube

Zinhle Mncube is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Zinhle is a philosopher of science with an interest in race and personalizing medicine. Her current research concerns the epistemology and ethics of personalizing medicine. Zinhle recently completed her PhD at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. Her PhD dissertation was entitled ‘The Prospects of Personalizing Medicine’.

In Hannover, Zinhle's research will be a philosophical analysis of the currently controversial practice of ‘race correction’ in medicine – the use of race in algorithms to predict medical risk in nephrology, cardiology, pulmonology, and obstetrics, amongst others. Employing a global perspective, she will focus on the implications of race correction on trust of the health care system by historically disadvantaged racial and ethnic groups.