Program

1400–1530 hrs

INAUGURAL AND FELICITATION

Bioethics in the contemporary context of healthcare justice: Looking back and looking ahead

20 years of NBC & 32 years of FMES

FMES-IJME Ethics Award Felicitation

Co-Chairs: Sanjay Nagral & [TBC]

Welcome Address

Sanjay Nagral

Introduction to Co-hosts

Introduction to Conference Theme

FMES-IJME Ethics Award Felicitation

Introduction to Felicitation Program

Citation Reading

Felicitation Acceptance Speeches

1530–1600 hrs

Break 

1600–1730 hrs

PLENARY 1

Health technology assessment & AI: Past & present

Co-Chairs: Mala Ramanathan & Sandra Albert

Keynote Address 1

Contemporary healthcare ecosystem and heath-AI: Opportunities and challenges towards strengthening health justice

Indranil

Keynote Address 2

Locating health-AI in health technology discourse: Historical and contemporary perspectives on health technologies assessment

Shankar Prinja

Keynote Address 3

Ethical and regulatory adaptations of health technology assessment for articulating value in medical AI

Calvin Ho

1730–1800 hrs

Break 

1800–1930 hrs

SESSION 1

AI applications and psychiatry: Ethics, governance, and entrepreneurships

Co-Chairs: Sunita Simon Kurpad & Sunita Sheel

Speaker 1

AI and mental healthcare: Challenges and possible solutions

Dilip V Jeste

Speaker 2

ICMR AI ethics guidelines: Critical reflections from a mental health researcher and practitioner

Suresh Bada Math

Speaker 3

AI application in counselling care: Insights from a start up with a global presence

Smriti Joshi

1600–1730 hrs

SESSION 2

Health digitization in India: Voice from the grassroots and policy spaces

Co-Chairs: Hammad Durrani & Sylvia Karpagam

Speaker 1

On the frontlines of digitization: ASHAs’ experiences from India

Sreerupa

Speaker 2

Digital health in India: Ground realities

Narendra Gupta

Speaker 3

Digitization in India: Hopes and despair

Usha Ramanathan

1730–1800 hrs

Break 

1800–1930 hrs

PLENARY 2

Health-AI: Diving deeper into ethics and human rights matters

Co-Chairs: Nandini Kumar & Joy Mammen

Keynote Address 1

Health-AI ethics and issues of justice: Local and global perspectives of users and developers

Rohit Malpani & Andreas Reis

Keynote Address 2

Role of social science and humanities in responsible health-AI

Siby K George

1600–1730 hrs

PLENARY 3

Health-AI policies and governance: Going beyond commercial interests

Co-Chairs: Vivek Divan & Jai Ganesh Udayasankaran

Keynote Address 1

Digital health: Legal and ethical challenges

Dipika Jain

Keynote Address 2

Health-AI regulatory and legal global an local ecosystems: Critical insights towards a way forward

Barry Solaiman

Keynote Address 3

Health-AI policies and governance discourse: Have we got it right?

Anita Gurumurthy

1730–1800 hrs

Break 

1800–1930 hrs

SESSION 3

AI & marginality: Users’ perspectives from transgender persons and people with disabilities

Co-Chairs: Sayantan Datta & Shampa Sengupta

Speakers: [TBC]

1600–1730 hrs

SESSION 4

Artificial intelligence & academic integrity: Bridging the gap in scholarly publishing

Co-Chairs: Lubna Duggal & Sayantan Datta

Speaker 1

Negotiating ethical frontiers of thinking in the age of AI

Neha Mishra

Speaker 2

AI as a researcher’s intelligent assistant: Boundaries and responsible use

Sunaina Singh

Speaker 3

Copyright Issues in Generative AI

Piyali Mitra

Speaker 4

WAME guidelines and the ethics of generative AI in scholarly communications

Chris Zielinski

1730–1800 hrs

Break 

1800–1930 hrs

PLENARY 4

Health-AI: Navigating through and negotiating with patients' right and planetary health

Co-Chairs: [TBC]

Summary of Conference Proceedings: Presentation by Rapporteurs Team

Valedictory Address 1

Telemedicine, AI, and Patients' rights

Shariq Khoja

Vote of Thanks