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THEME: Health for All in an Unequal World: Obligations of Global Bioethics
DATES AND VENUE
Pre-conference satellite meetings: Monday, December 3 & 4, 2018
Main Conference: Tuesday-Friday, December 5-7, 2018
St. John's National Academy of Health Sciences,
Sarjapur Road, John Nagar, Koramangala, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560034 (http://www.stjohns.in/medicalcollege/)
CONGRESS CO-ORGANISERS
Forum for Medical Ethics Society (www.ijme.in)
Sama Resource Group for Women and Health (http://www.samawomenshealth.in/)
St. John's National Academy of Health Sciences (http://www.stjohns.in/medicalcollege/) &
Society for Community Health Awareness, Research and Action (http://sochara.org/)
Five plenaries will be woven around these sub-themes of the conference: Bringing Rights and Ethics to the Centre in the ‘Health for All’ discourse; Rethinking Bioethics Boundaries in the Context of Health for All; Challenges for Bioethics in an Unequal World; Implications of Gender and Sexuality in Bioethics; Interrogating the Construct of Marginalisation and Vulnerabilities as Obligations of Bioethics. Presentation of papers, posters workshops, pre Congress symposia and conferences will similarly be organized around the conference sub-themes, as well as include themes from within the broader discipline of bioethics.