Events & Announcement

Announcement

• Final Guidelines for Students’ Corner section
  14-11-2024
• Submission Response The Guidelines for Withdrawal of Life Support in Terminally Ill Patients by FMES & CCM Dept, BVDTUMC Final Oct 24 Submitted to MH&FW
  29-10-2024
• Remembrance meeting for Richard Cash
  25-10-2024
• Public Consultation on Guidelines for Withdrawal of Life Support in Terminally Ill Patients on Sunday, October 13, 2024 | 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm
  11-10-2024
• Important announcement: Submissions to IJME will be on the editorial management system (OJS) from May 15, 2024.
  02-05-2024
• Report on the editorial “Reducing the risks of nuclear war—the role of health professionals” Chris Zielinski, 6 October 2023
  13-10-2023
• Ethics in Medical Publishing and Practice | The India Forum | June 16, 2023 | Episode Duration 44 mins | Kiran Kumbhar speaks with Amar Jesani on the discipline of bioethics
  05-09-2023
• Comments on ICMR Consensus Policy Statement for the Ethical Conduct of Controlled Human Infections Studies (CHIS) in India. Submitted on 16th August 2023 by Veena Johari (Advocate, Mumbai), Sandhya Srinivasan (Journalist, Mumbai), Amar Jesani (Independent Consultant, Mumbai), Chinu Srinivasan (LOCOST, Vadodara), Sunita Sheel Bandewar (Independent Researcher, Pune), Bevin Vinay Kumar, Public Health, Bhopal)
  22-08-2023
• South Asian Bioethics Community Methods and Ethics: Monitoring and Evaluation Thursday, July 27, 2023, 4:00 to 6:00 pm IST
  19-07-2023
• Reading Session South Asian Bioethics Community Thursday, May 18, 2023, 5 pm IST
  11-05-2023
• ‘Disrespect: A reflection’ Thursday, March 16, 2023, 12 pm IST
  27-02-2023
• My life and work in ethics | A conversation with Dr Vasantha Muthuswamy
  25-02-2023
• We at IJME mourn the passing of Dr Vasantha Muthuswamy.
  21-02-2023
• South Asian Bioethics Community (SABC) – Panel Discussion Thursday, Feb 16, 2023 | 6:30 pm IST
  01-02-2023
• IJME AUTHOR’S WEBINAR SERIES – JAN MAR 2023 : WEBINAR THEME: ETHICAL ISSUES IN HEMODIALYSIS IN RESOURCE LIMITED SETTINGS, Saturday January 28, 2023 Time: 5-6.30 pm (IST) | Live Video
  30-01-2023
• IJME AUTHOR’S WEBINAR SERIES – JAN MAR 2023 : WEBINAR THEME: ETHICAL ISSUES IN HEMODIALYSIS IN RESOURCE LIMITED SETTINGS, Saturday January 28, 2023 Time: 5-6.30 pm (IST)
  30-01-2023
• South Asia Bioethics Community (SABC) – Reading Session | January 19, 2023 | 6.30 pm IST
  09-01-2023
• Call for Nominations for the FMES-IJME Ethics Awards 2022-23
  05-01-2023
• Public health emergency and ethics of reporting: Learnings and way forward ‘Looking back and looking ahead’ The Round Table Series 2022-23 To commemorate 30th Year of FMES-IJME
  04-10-2022
• Short-Duration Intensive Training Program in Public Health Ethics on September 10, 2022 to November 12, 2022 (Every Staturday during this period between 1600 and 1930 hrs) Virtual
  10-08-2022
• Short-Duration Intensive Training Program in Social Science and Public Health Research Ethics on September 6, 2022, to November 8, 2022, (Every Tuesday during this period between 1600 and 1930 hrs at Virtual
  15-07-2022
• 1st Announcement: Save the dates joint 5th Global Mental Health Summit (GMHS) and 9th National Bioethics Conference (NBC) from Nov 15 to Dec 17, 2022
  12-07-2022
• 30th year of IJME – mark the occasion! | 1st May 2022 | Mumbai
  02-06-2022
• FMES-IJME Ethics Awards 2020-21 April 11, 2022 Live video on YouTube
  15-04-2022
• Tata Institute of Social Sciences, & Forum for Medical Ethics Society invite you for online report dissemination meeting on ‘Enhancing the Qualtiy of Health Care System Response to Sexual Assault: Study of Maharastra and Telangana’ on 26th March 2022, 4 – 6 pm
  21-03-2022
• Community Health Learning Programme (CHLP) | SOCHARA | Application Deadline 20th March 2022
  12-03-2022
• Award for Bioethics Service in the Face of Challenges Celebrating the 2021 winner, Dr Amar Jesani | 1 March 2022 | Video is live now
  08-03-2022
• A Special Lecture by Dr Amar Jesani on Ethical Challenges in Clinical Trials: With a Focus on Drug and Vaccine Trials | IMPR | March 4, 2022, at 5 pm
  23-02-2022
• Women need to believe that we are equal and valuable partners in every professional field. Dr. Priya Satalkar’s parents instilled a sense of curiosity in her at an early age, when reading a biography of Marie Skłodowska-Curie helped to inspire her to become a researcher. | Dr Priya Satalkar | European Union | February 11, 2022
  14-02-2022
• Public Health Ethics WriteShop Theme: Ethics of Community Health Work | Dates: 7-9 April 2022 | Venue: Chennai
  20-01-2022
• Award conferred to Dr Amar Jesani by the International Association of Bioethics
  19-01-2022
• FMES-IJME ETHICS AWARDS 2020-21 Call for Nominations for the FMES-IJME Ethics Awards 2020-21
  10-01-2022
• Launch of an enquiry report titled The Steady Drumbeat of Institutional Casteism: Recognise, Respond, Redress Now! by Forum Against Oppression of Women (FAOW), Forum for Medical Ethics Society (FMES), Medico Friends Circle (MFC), and People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), Maharashtra Tuesday, Sept 28, 2021 | 6-8 pm
  29-09-2021
• PRESS RELEASE : Forum for Medical Ethics Society (FMES) and Jan Swasthya Abhiyan (JSA) | Petition by health care and public health professionals to Safeguard health and health rights of all prisoners during the Covid-19 pandemic
  28-06-2021
• June 23, 2021 | TWN | Pharma Corporations demand Indeminity in Lieu of mRNA Vaccine Supply: Legal and Ethical Issues | Dr Amar Jesani, Adv. Anand Grover, Murali Neelkantan, Leena Meghaney
  22-06-2021
• FMES & JSA | Seeking endorsements | Safeguarding Prison Health during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic
  18-06-2021
• Press release: Oxfam India and Forum for Medical Ethics Society welcome PMs announcements for partial free vaccines; highlights need for more inclusive vaccine policy
  08-06-2021
• Our Theme issue articles now in Spanish
  24-05-2021
• Joint Statement: No Aadhaar for Vaccination, Access to Healthcare
  30-04-2021
• IJME presents a special Theme Issue titled “Double Standards Redux: The Ethics of Future Covid-19 Vaccine Research” edited by Ruth Macklin and Amar Jesani. The Theme papers from Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Cameroon, Germany, India, Mexico, Pakistan, and the US promise a multi-faceted discussion on a persistent ethical challenge to equity in public health, and will go live online first as they are reviewed and finalised
  03-03-2021
• COMMUNITY HEALTH LEARNING PROGRAMME (CHLP) 2021
  24-02-2021
• A Joint Statement on Technical, legal, ethical and implementation concerns regarding Aarogya Setu and other apps introduced during COVID-19 in India by Jan Swasthya Abhiyan (JSA), Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF), Forum for Medical Ethics Society (FMES), and All India People’s Science Network (AIPSN)
  11-09-2020
• Announcement about Maiden Bioethics Essay Competition winners
  22-05-2019
• Doctors with Disabilities protests MCI Board of Governors’ stand on admission to persons with disabilities to MBBS course.
  29-11-2018
• A call for support
  30-11-2016
• Appeal of Indian Doctors for Ethical Practice (IDEP)
  30-11-2016