Selection Committee for
FMES-IJME Ethics Awards
In Collaboration with The Center for Ethics, Yenepoya ( Deemed to be University )
Dr M Prakasamma, Dr M Prakasamma, Executive Director, Academy for Nursing Studies and Women's Empowerment Research Studies (ANSWERS), Hyderabad. [Ethical obligations of nursing profession and other healthcare workers, and their social protection
Dr Pavitra Mohan, Co-founder and Secretary, Basic Healthcare Services & Director, Health Services, Aajeevika Bureau, Udaipur.
Dr Pavitra Mohan graduated in Medicine and Surgery, and following a residency program in Pediatrics, earned a Doctor in Medicine from University of Delhi. He also earned a Masters of Public Health from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has earlier served as faculty of Paediatrics at Udaipur Medical College, coordinated research and child health programs at ARTH, a not-for-profit organization and worked as a Senior Health Specialist at UNICEF India Country Office. He has worked and contributed extensively to the field of newborn and child health, equity in health care and in Human resources for health in India. For his contribution to the field of neonatal health, he was awarded Fellowship by National Nenotology Forum of India.
In 2012, he founded Basic Health Care Services, a not-for-profit organization to promote models of high quality, low cost primary care health services in underserved areas. Since January 2013, he also leads the Health Services portfolio at Aajeevika Bureau, setting up models of primary healthcare for the migrants. He has published in reputed journals on issues related to equity in health care and human resources in healthcare.
Dr Sulakshana Nandi, Sulakshana Nandi is Co-Chair of People's Health Movement Global Steering Council. She is the State Convener of Public Health Resource Network (PHRN), Chhattisgarh and National Co-Convener of PHM India. She supports community based organisations in Chhattisgarh state of India in working on the right to food and health, forest rights, and gender and rights of indigenous communities. She is involved in research, capacity building, and advocacy on issues of health equity and access, and public policy and programmes for health and nutrition, with a focus on gender and vulnerable communities. She has published widely on these issues. She holds a PhD in public health from University of the Western Cape, South Africa
