Vol , Issue Date of Publication: October 01, 2010

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NATIONAL BIOETHICS CONFERENCE

Participants


Aamir Jafarey is a general surgeon and Associate Professor at the Centre of Biomedical Ethics and Culture, Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation, Karachi, PAKISTAN e-mail: [email protected]


Anjali Shenoi is a Project Associate with Sama – Resource Group for Women and Health, New Delhi INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Abha Saxena is Executive Secretary, Research Ethics Review Committee, Research Policy and Cooperation, World Health Organization, Geneva SWITZERLAND


Anjali Suryawanshi is a Senior Project Officer with the Society for Nutrition, Education and Health Action, Mumbai INDIA e-mail: sneha. [email protected]


Abhijit Das is Director, Centre for Health and Social Justice, New Delhi INDIA and Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle WA USA


Anjuman Arora is with the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh INDIA


Ajay Khare is with the Madhya Pradesh Vigyan Sabha and Jan Swasthya Abhiyan, Bhopal INDIA


Anshul Avijit is at the Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute of Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Akhila Sivadas is Managing Trustee and Executive Director of the Centre for Advocacy and Research, New Delhi INDIA


Antaryami Dash has a Master of Health Administration degree from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Alok Prabhu is with the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Anuj Kapilashrami is a Teaching Fellow with the Global Public Health Unit, University of Edinburgh, UK e-mail: [email protected]


Alok Sarin is a Consultant Psychiatrist, Sitaram Bhartia Institute, and Senior Fellow, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Anuradha Gupta is Joint Secretary, National Rural Health Mission, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, New Delhi


Amandeep Singh is an Assistant Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine, Government Medical College and Hospital, Chandigarh INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Anuska Kalita is a Senior Associate with the ICICI Centre for Child Health and Nutrition, Pune INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Amar Jesani is Editorial Board member of the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics and trustee of the Anusandhan Trust, Mumbai INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Arathi M is a PhD Student at the Centre of Community Health and Social Medicine, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi INDIA


Ameer Khan is State Co-convenor of the Jan Swasthya Abhiyan, Tamilnadu, Networking and Training officer of the Community Health Cell, Sochara, Chennai INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Aravinda Pillalamarri is with the Association for India’s Development, at Deonar, Mumbai INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Amit Sengupta is General Secretary, All India People’s Science Movement and Associate Co-ordinator (Global), Peoples Health Movement, New Delhi INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Arijita Dutta is with the Department of Economics, Calcutta University, INDIA e-mail: dutta [email protected]


Anant Bhan is a researcher in Bioethics and Global Health, Pune INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Anant Kumar is an Assistant Professor of Public Health at Xavier Institute of Social Service, Ranchi, Jharkhand INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Arun Kumar is a Junior Resident at the Department of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Ananthakrishnan N is former Head, Department of Surgery, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Puduchery INDIA


Ashifa Sarkar is Documentation and Communications Consultant at the Society for Nutrition, Education and Health Action, Mumbai INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Angus Dawson is a Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Professional Ethics, School of Law, Keele University, Staffordshire UK e-mail: [email protected]


Ashish Malekar is Regional Partnership Manager, Program for Appropriate Technology in Health, Mumbai INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Anil Kumar is Head, Biostatistics and Epidemiology, National JALMA Institute for Leprosy, Agra INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Ashwani K Gupta is an Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Gian Sagar Medical College and Hospital, District Patiala, Punjab INDIA


Anil Kumar Gupta is Professor and Head, Department of Hospital Administration, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh INDIA


Avinash Kumar is Essential Services Lead Specialist, Oxfam India, New Delhi INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Anirudh Kala is Director of the Centre for Psychiatric Treatment and De-addiction, Ludhiana, Punjab INDIA and Founder President of the Indian Association of Private Psychiatry


Avinash Sonawane is a Research Associate with the Healis-Sekhsaria Institute for Public Health, Navi Mumbai INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Anjali Gokarn is Programme Director (Advocacy), Society for Nutrition, Education and Health Action, Mumbai INDIA email: [email protected] Anjali Gopalan is Founder and Executive Director of The Naz Foundation (India) Trust, Delhi INDIA


Benazir Patil is the State Manager (Maharashtra), Program for Appropriate Technology in Health, Mumbai INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Bilkis Vissandjee is a Professor at the School of Nursing and Public Health, University of Montreal, and Researcher at the Research Centre of the CSSS de la Montagne, Montreal CANADA e-mail: [email protected]


Bijoya Roy is a Fellow at the Centre for Women’s Development Studies, New Delhi INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Binayak Sen is with the Medico Friend Circle, the People’s Union for Civil Liberties, and Christian Medical College, Vellore INDIA


Erum Kabani is at the Aga Khan University School of Nursing, Karachi PAKISTAN: e-mail: erum [email protected]


Biraj Swain is an advisor to the Madhya Pradesh Health Sector Reforms Programme and a Doctoral Research Scholar of Pondicherry Central University INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Farhat Moazam is Professor and Chair of the Centre of Biomedical Ethics and Culture, Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation, Karachi, PAKISTAN e-mail: [email protected]


Brien Holden is with the Brien Holden Vision Institute, University of New South Wales, Sydney, AUSTRALIA


Gagandeep Kang is Dean (Research) and Professor, Christian Medical College, Vellore


Bushra Shirazi is a general surgeon on the faculty of Ziauddin University, Karachi PAKISTAN e-mail: [email protected]


Gayatri Chavan is a Project Officer at the Society for Nutrition, Education and Health Action, Mumbai INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Caroline Rumble is a Research Associate at the Department of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation, King’s College London, UK e-mail: [email protected]


Geetanjali Misra is Executive Director, CREA, New Delhi INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Cathy Shipman is with the Department of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation, King’s College London, UK


George Thomas is Editor of the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics, Mumbai, and Head of Emergency Services, St Isabel’s Hospital, Chennai INDIA email: [email protected]


Chandra Mohan Gulhati is Editor, Monthly Index of Medical Specialities, New Delhi INDIA


Girish Ingle is a Senior Research Officer at the Centre for Studies in Ethics and Rights, Mumbai INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Chesmal Siriwardhana is with the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London UK and the Institute for Research Development, SRI LANKA e-mail: [email protected]


Girish Rahane is a Research Assistant with the National AIDS Research Institute, Pune INDIA


Chhanda Chakraborti is an Associate Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, West Bengal INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Gita Sen is a Professor, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, and Adjunct Professor of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston USA


Chhaya Pachauli is Senior Programme Co-ordinator, Prayas, Centre For Health Equity, Jaipur, Rajasthan INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Glyn Alcock is a Research Assistant at University College London, Centre for International Health and Development, Institute of Child Health, London UK e-mail: [email protected].


Chinu Srinivasan is Managing Trustee, LOCOST Therapeutics, Vadodara, Gujarat INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Harish T is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Daphne Viveka Furtado is with the Kurji Holy Family Hospital and School of Nursing, Kurji, Patna, Bihar INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Harsh Mander is Honorary Director of the Centre for Equity Studies, Visiting Professor IIM, Ahmedabad


David Legge is an Associate Professor, School of Public Health, La Trobe University, Bundoora AUSTRALIA


Hemlata Pisal is with Mahila Sarvangeen Utkarsh Mandal (MASUM), Pune.


David Osrin is a Reader at the UCL Institute of Child Health, Centre for International Health and Development, London UK e-mail: [email protected]


Helen Sheehan is a Visiting Scholar at the South Asia Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA USA e-mail: [email protected]


Deapica Ravindran is a Junior Research Officer at the Centre for Studies in Ethics and Rights, Mumbai INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Indranil Mukhopadhyay is a Research Scholar at the Centre for Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Debasis Poddar is an Assistant Professor with the School of Law, ITM University, Gurgaon, Haryana INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Irene J Higginson is with the Department of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation, King’s College London, Cicely Saunders Institute, London, UK


Deepa Venkatachalam is a Programme Co-ordinator with Sama – Resource Group for Women and Health, New Delhi INDIA. e-mail: [email protected]


JK Lakshmi is a Senior Lecturer at the Indian Institute of Public Health, Hyderabad INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Devika Chadha, Programme Director, Salaam Bombay Foundation, Mumbai, INDIA


Jashodhara Dasgupta is Coordinator, SAHAYOG, Lucknow, India INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Dhanesh Sharma is an Associate Professor in Anatomy, Odaiyappa Medical College and Hospital, Walayar, Palakkad, Kerala INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Jayakrishnan T is with the Department of Community Medicine, Medical College, Calicut, Kerala INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Divya Bhagianadh is Associate Coordinator, the Centre for Studies in Ethics and Rights, Mumbai INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Jeeja MC is with the Medical College, Department of Community Medicine, Calicut, Kerala INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Elif Atici is with the Department of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, Uludag University, Bursa TURKEY e-mail: [email protected]


Jo Noble is at King’s College Hospital, Denmark Hill, London, UK


Jonathan Koffman is with the Department of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation, King’s College London, UK


Joe Varghese is a Senior Programme Coordinator, Policy Advocacy and Research Group, Christian Medical Association of India, New Delhi INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Jui Ranade-Sathe is a Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Enquiry into Health and Allied Themes, Mumbai INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Mariam Hassan is with the Clinical Research Office, Abdul Hafeez Cancer Research Wing, Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre, Karachi PAKISTAN e-mail: [email protected]


Kabir Sheikh is an Assistant Professor with the Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Mary E John is Senior Fellow and Director, Centre for Women in Developing Societies, New Delhi


Kajal Bhardwaj is a legal researcher, Lawyers Collective, HIV/AIDS Unit, Mumbai


Medha Joshi is Head, Department of Library Sciences, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Kameshwari SV is with the Life-Health Reinforcement Group, Hyderabad INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Meghana Chandra is a Third Year Student at the National Law University, Jodhpur INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Kausar Khan is in the Department of Community Health Systems, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan


Michael Selgelid is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, The Australian National University, Canberra AUSTRALIA e-mail: [email protected]


Kavita Kuruganti is with the Kheti Virasat Mission, Jaitu, Faridkot District, Punjab INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Md Moinul Islam is a Social Communicator with the BRAC Advocacy Unit, BRAC Centre, Dhaka BANGLADESH e-mail: [email protected]


Kavita Singh is a Fogarty scholar at the Centre for Chronic Disease Control, New Delhi


Mohammad Ziauddin Khan is a Programme Associate at the ICICI Centre for Child Health and Nutrition, Pune, Maharashtra INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Lakshmi Lingam is Professor and Dean, School for Women’s Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai INDIA


Myfanwy Morgan is with the Department of Primary Care and Public Health Sciences, King’s College, London UK


Lakshmi E Prasad is a Research Associate, Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


N K Sethi is Senior Adviser (Health), Planning Commission, Government of India, New Delhi


Leena Menghaney is Project Co-ordinator, Medecins Sans Frontieres – Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines (India), New Delhi INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Nalini Annaswami is Director-Education, Saveetha University, Chennai INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Leila Seth is a former Member, Law Commission of India and a retired Chief Justice of the High Court of Himachal Pradesh.


Nandini Kumar is a Co- investigator on the NIH project at the National Institute of Epidemiology, Chennai INDIA


Leni Chaudhuri is Programme Manager, Health, Narotam Sekhsaria Foundation, Mumbai INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Narendra Gupta, is Coordinator, Prayas, Chittorgarh INDIA email: [email protected]


Loon Gangte is President of the Delhi Network of Positive People (DNP+), Delhi INDIA


Natasha Anwar is with the Molecular Pathology Laboratory, Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Centre, Karachi PAKISTAN e-mail: [email protected]


Lord W Reza is a student at the School of Health System Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai INDIA: e-mail: [email protected]


Neelam Joglekar is a Behavioural Scientist at the National AIDS Research Institute, Pune INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


M K Bhan is a Secretary to the Government of India, Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, and former Professor, Department of Paediatrics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi INDIA


Neena Shah More is Research Coordinator and Director at the Society for Nutrition, Education and Health Action, Mumbai INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Mahek Garg is a Bachelor in Pharmacy, Indraprastha University, New Delhi INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Neeta Karandikar is a Senior Project Officer with Society for Nutrition, Education and Health Action, Mumbai INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Mahesh Devnani is a Senior Resident, Department of Hospital Administration, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Neha Madhiwalla is Coordinator of the Centre for Studies in Ethics and Rights, on the Editorial Board of the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics and trustee of Chehak Trust – Sahyog. Mumbai INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Majeed Bhat is a Researcher at the Centre for Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi INDIA


Nilay N Suthar is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Medicine, Sheth VS General Hospital, Ahmedabad, Gujarat INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Mala Ramanathan is Additional Professor, Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies and Member, Institute Ethics Committee, SCTIMST, Thiruvananthapuram, INDIA


Nithya Gogtay is Associate Professor in Clinical Pharmacology, Seth G S Medical College and KEM Hospital, Mumbai and Associate Editor, Journal of Postgraduate Medicine, Mumbai INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Malyadri P is Principal Director, University Grants Commission Major Research Project, Vivekananda Government College, Osmania University, Vidyanagar, Hyderabad INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Nitin Jadhav, SATHI-CEHAT, Pune and is State Community Based Monitoring Coordinator under the National Rural Health Mission, Pune INDIA


Manohar Agnani is Mission Director, National Rural Health Mission, Madhya Pradesh INDIA


Rabi Narayan Parhi is a Senior Programme Associate with the ICICI Centre for Child Health and Nutrition, Pune INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Nobhojit Roy is Head of the Department of Surgery, BARC Hospital, Mumbai, and Editorial Board Member of the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Rachel Burman is at King’s College Hospital, Denmark Hill, London UK


Nurani Subramanian Vishwanath is an MPH Student at the Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Radhika Chandiramani is with TARSHI-Talking about Reproductive and Sexual Health Issues, New Delhi INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Nusrat Shafiq is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Pharmacology, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh INDIA


Radhika Taroor is a Student Counsellor with Horizon of Knowledge Management Training, Sharjah UAE e-mail: [email protected]


Odette Dampier is at King’s College Hospital, London, UK


Rahul Gupta is a Health Officer and Executive Director, Kanawha- Charleston Health Department, Charleston, WV USA e-mail: [email protected]


Oommen C Kurian is a Research Officer at the Centre for Enquiry into Health and Allied Themes, Mumbai INDIA e-mail: [email protected].


Rakesh Kumar Sharma is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Hospital Administration, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


P P Bopanna Justice (Retired) is Chairperson, Institutional Ethics Committee, Manipal Hospital, Manipal INDIA


Rakhal Gaitonde is a Training and Research Associate, Community Health Cell, Bangalore INDIA


Padmaja Samant Mavani is an Associate Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, KEM Hospital and Seth GS Medical College, Mumbai, and Committee Member of the Forum for Medical Ethics Society e-mail: [email protected]


Rakhi Ghoshal is an Independent Researcher and a PhD Fellow at the Centre for Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Peush Sahni is Editor, The National Medical Journal of India, New Delhi INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Rama Baru is with the Centre for Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi INDIA e-mail: [email protected],


Phil Hopkins is with King’s College Hospital, London, UK


Ramalingam S is Principal, PSG Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Coimbatore INDIA


Prabha Chandra is Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry, at the National Institute of Mental Health, Bengaluru, INDIA


Raman Kutty V is a Professor at the Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Prabha Desikan is Secretary, Institutional Review Board, Bhopal Memorial Hospital and Research Centre, Bhopal, INDIA


Ramesh C Deka is the Director, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi INDIA


Prajit K Basu is with the Department of Philosophy, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Ramesh Paranjape is Director, National AIDS Research Institute, Pune INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Prakash C Gupta is Director of the Healis-Sekhsaria Institute for Public Health, Navi Mumbai INDIA


Ratnaprabha Potdar is a Recruitment and Retention Supervisor with the National AIDS Research Institute, Pune INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Prakash Vinjamuri is with the Life-Health Reinforcement Group, Hyderabad INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Reena Mary George is a PhD Fellow (Human Rights) at the University of Vienna, Vienna AUSTRIA e-mail: [email protected]


Prasanna Saligram is a lecturer at the Indian Institute of Public Health, Gandhi Nagar, INDIA


Rekha Jain is the Regional Coordinator, National AIDS Control Organisation, Department of AIDS Control, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India, New Delhi INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Prashant Raymus is a Research Officer at the Centre for Enquiry into Health and Allied Themes, Mumbai INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Renaud F Boulanger is with the McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health, University of Toronto, Toronto CANADA e-mail: [email protected]


Prathap Tharyan is Professor of Psychiatry, and Associate Director, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu INDIA and Director of the South Asian Cochrane Network and Centre e-mail: [email protected]


Renu Addlakha is at the Centre for Women’s Development Studies, New Delhi INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Prateek Bhatia is a Senior Research Fellow at the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh INDIA


Renuka S Mukadam is a Programme Associate with Sama- Resource Group for Women and Health, New Delhi INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Pratishtha Sengupta is associated with MANTRA, a state level NGO in West Bengal: [email protected]


Renu Saxena is Head, Department of Haemotology, and Secretary, Institutional Ethics Committee, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, INDIA


Preeti Nayak is Project Co-ordinator with Sama – Resource Group for Women and Health, New Delhi INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Rewa Malhotra Kohli is a Socio-Behavioral Research Co-ordinator, Clinical Trial Unit, National AIDS Research Institute, Pune INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


P P Khosla is Professor and Head, Department of Pharmacology, Gian Sagar Medical College and Hospital, District Patiala, Punjab INDIA


Sara Leonard is with King’s College Hospital, Denmark Hill, London UK


Prithpal S Matreja is Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Gian Sagar Medical College and Hospital, District Patiala, Punjab INDIA


Sarah Hodges is an Associate Professor, in the History Department, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK e-mail: [email protected]


Richard Cash is Director, Program on Ethical Issues in Global Health Research, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA USA


Sarojini NB is Director of Sama – Resource Group for Women and Health, New Delhi INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Rubina Naqvi is an Associate Professor at the Department of Nephrology, Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation, Civil Hospital, Karachi, PAKISTAN e-mail: [email protected]


Satyajeet Nanda is an Associate Professor and Unit Head, Communication for Social Change Unit, Mudra Institute of Communications Research, Ahmedabad INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Rupali Gupta is a Research Officer with the Centre for Enquiry into Health and Allied Themes, Mumbai INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Sayeed Unisa is a Professor with the International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Sadhna Jain is a Lecturer in Reader’s Grade, Aditi Mahavidyalaya, University of Delhi INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Seema Sahay is a Scientist, Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences, National AIDS Research Institute, Pune INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Sadia Ahsan is a student at the School of Health System Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Shailaja Tetali is an Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Public Health, Hyderabad INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Saima Faisal is with the Clinical Research Office, Abdul Hafeez Cancer Research Wing, Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre PAKISTAN e-mail: [email protected]


Shanti Pantvaidya is a Consultant and Trustee with the Society for Nutrition, Education and Health Action, Mumbai INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Saju Joseph is a Research Supervisor, Maharashtra Association of Anthropological Sciences Pune INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Sharmila Neogi is a Programme Officer, Population Foundation of India, New Delhi INDIA


Samir Malhotra is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmacology, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh INDIA


Shashank Tiwari is a postgraduate research student at the Institute for Science and Society, University of Nottingham, UK e-mail: [email protected]


Samiran Nundy is Head, Department of Surgical Gastroenterology, Sir Gangaram Hospital, Delhi, former Editor of Indian Journal of Medical Ethics and Editor Emeritus, National Medical Journal of India INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Sheeladevi Sethu is Associate Public Health Specialist, International Centre for the Advancement of Rural Eye care, L V Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Sana Contractor is a Research Officer, Centre for Enquiry into Health and Allied Themes, Mumbai INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Shelley Saha-Sinha is Program Manager-Research at the Centre for Health and Social Justice, New Delhi INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Sandhya Srinivasan is a Consulting Editor for Infochange News & Features and Executive Editor of the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics, Mumbai INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Shiv Kumar Sarin is Director of the Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, New Delhi INDIA.


Sandra Crouse Quinn is Associate Dean for Public Health Initiatives and Professor, Department of Family Science, School of Public Health, University of Maryland, USA e-mail: [email protected]


Shobha Mocherla is Audio-Visual Producer at the Central Audio-Visual Unit, L V Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Sangeeta Rege is a Senior Research Officer Centre for Enquiry into Health and Allied Themes, Mumbai INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Smitha S Parakkal is a Research Scholar and UGC-JRF Fellow at the NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Sanjay Nagral is an Editorial Advisory Board member, Indian Journal of Medical Ethics, Consultant in the Department of Surgical Gastroenterology, Jaslok Hospital and Research Centre, and Consultant, Department of Surgery, Bhabha Municipal Hospital, Mumbai INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Sreekumari Sudhakaran is a retired Professor of Biochemistry, Medical College, Thiruvananthapuram and now professor of Biochemistry, Jubilee Mission Hospital, College, Thrissur, INDIA


Sanjay A Pai is Head, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Columbia Asia Referral Hospital, Bangalore, an Editorial Board member of the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics, and a Working Committee member of the National Medical Journal of India, INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Sridevi Seetharam is a Pathologist, Bioethicist and Director, Research Division (Health) at the Vivekananda Memorial Hospital, Swami Vivekananda Youth Movement, Mysore INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Sanjeev Rastogi is Associate Professor, Postgraduate Department of Kaya Chikitsa, State Ayurvedic College, Lucknow INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Srinath Reddy is Director, Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi INDIA


Sanjeev Sood is a Hospital and Health Systems Administrator serving at AF Hospital, Jodhpur INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Subha Sri B, is Director, Reproductive Health Clinic, Rural Women’s Social Education Centre, Tamil Nadu e-mail: [email protected]


Santosh Kakade is at the Symbiosis Institute of Health Sciences, Pune INDIA [email protected]


Subhash Yadav is in the Department of Endocrine Surgery, Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Chandigarh INDIA


Santosh Kumar Chaturvedi is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Suchitra Wagle is a Senior Research Associate with the Centre for Enquiry into Health and Allied Themes, Mumbai and a PhD student at the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Sujatha Rao is Secretary, Health and Family Welfare Ministry, Government of India, New Delhi INDIA


T A John is an independent researcher and human rights activist, India. email: [email protected]


Suneeta Krishnan is an Adjunct Professor at St John’s Research Institute, Bangalore. INDIA: [email protected]


Tamara Livshiz is a Volunteer, Society for Nutrition, Education and Health Action, Mumbai INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Sunil Pandya is the Founder Editor of Indian Journal of Medical Ethics and in the Department of Neurosurgery, Jaslok Hospital & Research Centre, Mumbai INDIA


Teoman Atici is with the Department of Medicine and the Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Uludag University, Bursa TURKEY e-mail: [email protected]


Sunita VS Bandewar is with the McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health, University of Toronto,Toronto, CANADA e-mail: [email protected]


Ujwala Bapat is a Research Coordinator with Society for Nutrition, Education and Health Action, Mumbai INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Supriya Bandekar is a Junior Research Officer with the Centre for Studies in Ethics and Rights, Mumbai INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Upendra Baxi is Professor of Law in Development at the University of Warwick, United Kingdom


Supriya Kumar is with the Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, USA e-mail: [email protected]


Usha Raman is a Visiting Professor, Department of Communications, University of Hyderabad, and member of the ethics committee at the LV Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad, AP INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Suresh Kumar K is an independent consultant on Public Health and a senior stroke rehabilitation occupational therapist at the School of Public Health, SRM University, Tamil Nadu, INDIA


Varada Madge is a PhD scholar at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Sushant Verma is Executive Director, Public Health Resource Network, New Delhi INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Vasantha Muthuswamy is Senior Deputy Director General (retired), Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi INDIA


Susheela Singh is a Project Co-ordinator (Training), Sama – Resource Group for Women and Health, New Delhi INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Vasumathi Sriganesh is the CEO, QMed Knowledge Foundation, Andheri East, Mumbai 400 099 INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Sushmita Das is a Research Coordinator, with the Society for Nutrition, Education, and Health Action, Mumbai INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Vijayaprasad Gopichandran is with the Rural Women’s Social Education Centre, Tamil Nadu INDIA


Swarnalakshmi S. is IRB Manager, YR Gaitonde Center for AIDS Research and Education, Chennai INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Vinod Bhanu is Executive Director, Centre for Legislative Research and Advocacy, New Delhi, INDIA


Sweta Surve is a Junior Programme Officer with the Centre for Studies in Ethics and Rights, Mumbai INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Vishvas Garg is a PhD Student, University of New Mexico, College of Pharmacy, USA e-mail: [email protected]


Syeda Hameedis a Member of the Planning Commission of India and a former Member of the National Commission of Women. T A John is an independent researcher and human rights activist INDIA e-mail: [email protected]


Wendy Prentice is at King’s College Hospital, Denmark Hill, London UK


Will Bernal is at King’s College Hospital, Denmark Hill, London UK


Yogesh Jain is a paediatrician with Jan Swasthya Sahyog, Bilaspur,Chhattisgarh INDIA.

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