Program

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Presentations:

Day 1

Session 1 | Inaugural Plenary

Inaugural address: Dr Gagandeep Kang, [Ten months of the pandemic: The scientific and humanitarian challenges] [Video]
Keynote address 1: Dr Sundar Sarukkai, [The Moral crisis of public health] [Video]
Keynote address 2: Adv Mihir Desai, [Human rights and social justice in a pandemic] [Video]

Session 2 | ACCESS TO CARE IN COVID: CHALLENGING THE RULES OF THE GAME? [Video]

Day 2

Session 3 | Plenary | Clinical Ethics in Pandemics

Presentation of proceedings of the Day 1 by Dr Jagriti Gangopadhaya, Member, 8^th NBC, Rapporteurs Committee [Video]
Special Talk: Dr C S Pramesh, Director, [Obligations of health care institutions: providing essential services to non COVID patients] [Video]
Keynote address 1: Dr Pavitra Mohan, [Ethics of managing syndemics in a high-migration, tribal community] [Video]
Keynote address 2: Dr M Prakasamma, [Nursing practice during the pandemic: Ethical obligations, Practical Challenges, and Structural Barriers] [Video]

Session 4 | COVID in the ICU: Dilemmas & Challenges [Video]

Session 5 | Ear to the Ground: Centerstaging Voices from the Margins in the Pendemic [Video]

Dr Tejaswi Sevekari, [Existentialcrisis faced by sex workers: Navigating through COVID-19 times] [Video]
Dr Aqsa Shaikh, [Rising up to the challenges of the pandemic: Perspectives from Transgender community] [Video]
Shri Gangaram Paikra, [Adivasi communities in pandemic times: Further marginalization of those at margins] [Video]
Arundhati Dhuru, [Increased domestic violence during COVID-19 pandemic: Interplay of adversities of the pandemic and caste, class and religion] [Video]

Day 3

Session 6 | Plenary | Research Ethics in the Covid Pandemics

Presentation of proceedings of Day 2 | Dr James Charles-Davis, Member, 8^th NBC, Rapporteurs Committee [Video]
Special Talk: Dr S P Kalantri, [Politics of science in a pandemic: Impact on evidence-based medicine] [Video]
Keynote address 1: Prof Laisram Ladu Singh, [Ethics of epidemiological modelling research] [Video]
Keynote address 2: Dr Cat Chatfield, [Scientific integrity and publication ethics in pandemics] [Video]

Session 7 | Crisis of Ethics Review and Research Ethics Committees in the Covid-19 Pandemic [Video]

Session 8 | Regulatory Approvals in Pandemic: Clinical Trial Approvals & the Emergency and Marketing Approvals of Drugs and Vaccines?

Dr Nandini Kumar, [ICMR's COVID-19 Guidelines and fast-tracked approvals for drugs and other interventions] [Video]
Dr Arun Bhatt, [Scientific and Ethical Issues in COVID-19 clinical trials] [Video]
Siddhartha Das, [Mishaps in drug regulatory processes: Insights into drugs approved by DCGI for COVID-19 treatment] [Video]

Day 4

Session 9 | Plenary | Mental Health, Health Care Humanities and Pandemics

Special Talk: Prof Dr Sunita Simon, [Ethical mental healthcare in the pandemic] [Video]

Session 10 | Health Care Humanities and Covid-19

Dr Satendra Singh, [Recover better: Building towards inclusive & resilient post-COVID world] [Video]
Dr Manjulika Vaz, [Perspectives of the Pandemic from Medical Students: empathy, frustration and helplessness] [Video]
Dr Upreet Dhaliwal, [Deconstructing the pandemic through poetry: fear, fortitude and fury] [Video]

Session 11 | Ethical Challenges for the Media Reporting on the Pandemic [Video]

Session 12 | Veledictory | Reimagining the Post Pandemic World: Steering Towards Justice, Equality and Sustainability

Valedictory Address1: Prof Jayaprakash Muliyil, [Learnings from the COVID-19 pandemic] [Video]
Valedictory address 2: P Sainath, [Is there a vaccine for inequity? ] [Video]

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