Prof Minrie Greef

Prof Minrie Greeff is an emeritus professor since 2020 at the North-West University, South Africa. She is appointed in the office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Research and Innovation as a Research Integrity Officer and Advisor. Her focus after retirement was to develop and implement an Integrated Research Integrity Management System (IRIMS) for the NWU, as well as enhance qualitative research through workshops and consultation. She acts as mentor, consultant and educator for research ethics, research integrity and qualitative research.

As former director of the School of Nursing (1994 – 2002), research professor in the Africa Unit for Transdisciplinary Research (2002 – 2025) and Head of the Faculty of Health Sciences Ethics Office (2015 – 12019), Research Integrity officer and Advisor (2020 – 2025), Prof Greeff has been sharing her experience and expertise in research, research ethics and research integrity for many years. She has been the chairperson of the NWU-HREC for 8 years and before that served as a member on this committee for 15 years. In 2014 she obtained her postgraduate diploma in research ethics from the University of Stellenbosch. As research ethicist, she has been instrumental in developing a university wide research ethics structure in 2018 to ensure quality and safe ethical research practices at the NWU. Since 2020 she has developed and implemented a university wide Integrated Research Integrity Management System (IRIMS) at the NWU. She served on several research ethics committees (both human and animal). She has been a member of the National Health Research Ethics Council (2016 – 2021). In 2019 she was elected as the chairperson of the Research Ethics Association for Ethics Committee Members of Southern Africa (REASA) and served in this position until May 2023.

She was a National Research Foundation rated researcher for many years and is an inducted member of the SA Academy of Science and Arts and the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) and served on the Standing Committee for Health of ASSAf since March 2020 until 2023. She is an inducted member of the Africa Research Hall of Fame and the and the International Nurse Researchers Hall of Fame. In 2014 she was awarded the Stals prize for Nursing. In July 2020 she was invited to become an expert member on the Expert Panel of Inter Academy Partnership (IAP) COVID19 Advisory Group. In November 2025 she was elected as advisory member on the EXCO of the Africa Research Integrity network (ARIN).