All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
November 17, 2010 – November 20, 2010
Background and vision
Indian Journal of Medical Ethics,(www.ijme.in) a peer reviewed indexed journal (called earlier as Medical Ethics and Issues in Medical Ethics) materialized in 1993 as a forum for discussion on healthcare ethics and for scientific exchange and debates on bioethics. As a pioneer and leader in this field, it had to play the role of fostering commitment to bioethics, mentoring individuals who have serious interest to specialize in the subject, and, most importantly, ensure that institutions are sensitized to the need for establishing formal structures for ethical conduct and making them work.
The National Bioethics Conference
With the evolvement of the sector, there was an emerging need for sharing ideas and to build a platform for the different stakeholders to come together and discuss ethical issues in health care field and also the need to promote indegenised, original thinking and experimentation so as to develop an ethical framework suitable for the specific contexts that we work in here in India. It was in recognition of this role that IJME needed to play that the idea of organizing National Bioethics Conferences (NBC) was evolved.
The 1st NBC on the theme Ethical Challenges in Health, Global Context, Indian Realities, held at the YMCA International Centre, Mumbai on 25-27 November, 2005 was co-organised by 20 institutions. The second NBC, organized in 2007, was on the theme of Moral and ethical imperatives of healthcare technologies: scientific, legal and socio-economic perspectives on use and misuse at the NIMHANS (National Institute for Mental Health and Neurosciences) Convention Centre, Bangalore from December 6th to 8th, 2007. The participation grew, and there was involvement of 38 organisations in the second NBC.
National Bioethics Conference- 2010
Theme: Governance of Health Care – ethics, equity and justice
Overview
In recent decades, Indian health sector has seen revolutionary changes. With the wave of globalization that has hit India, world class technologies, superspecialities and big corporate and private sector hospitals emerged in India, but it somehow distanced itself from the poor and needy in the country. It also paved the way for international collaborations in the field of research, service delivery and health education. Although significant achievements have been made, there are still gaping holes and discrepancies in the public health care setup which caters to a significant proportion of population. Keeping these facts in mind, the 3rd NBC on the theme ethics, equity and justice is being held from Nov 18th- 20th, 2010 at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, the premier medical institute in the country.
Project objectives: To bring together diverse perspectives on governance in healthcare, towards building an equitable and just health system by providing a platform for achieving a productive dialogue between practitioners, administrators, policy-makers and activists to this end.
Specific objectives:
- To bring together key institutions within the healthcare sector to engage with the issue of governance with a view to ensuring equity and justice for all.
- To enable emerging research in bioethics in India to be presented in a public forum and encouraging these researches to be published in national and international journals so that it reaches a wider audience.
- To create a forum for organizing skill-building and resource sharing in bioethics among different organisations and to enable dialogue between key stakeholders from India and abroad on a range of perspectives with a view to enlighten healthcare practice, policy making and management from a bioethics perspective.
Announcements
ICICI Centre for Child Health and Nutrition (ICCHN) fellowships |
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ICICI Centre for Child Health and Nutrition (ICCHN) fellowships
It gives us immense pleasure to announce the ICCHN fellowships for participating in the Third National Bioethics Conference. Selected abstracts from those accepted for the conference will be awarded the ICCHN fellowship. Fellowships are aimed especially at student participants/ other participants whose papers are selected for the conference and who may find it difficult to obtain funding for attending the conference. It will cover travel, accommodation and registration fees. Please send an email to nbcdelhi@gmail.com for being considered for the fellowship. Please mention the title of your abstract as it is submitted at the online system as the subject while applying for the fellowship. The fellowship will be awarded only to Indian citizens residing in the country.
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Guidelines for abstract submission |
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Abstract Deadline: July 31, 2010 Abstracts can be submitted online at nbc3.ijme.in after creating an account with the conference.
Presentations can include: • Paper presentation (abstract max of 250 words) Workshops that are highly interactive and/or use innovative communication methods are encouraged. Workshops may aim to generate recommendations/guidelines, build skills, provide information, etc. Only proposals that adhere to the format below will be considered. Format for Workshop Proposals 1.Title 2.Names of Facilitators with Institutional Affiliations (maximum four facilitators per workshop) 3.Maximum number of participants 4.Significance of topic in the field of bioethics (50 words): 5.Two key learning objectives 6.Describe proposed methods: (e.g. Group work, brainstorming, mapping, role play, panel discussion, etc) 7.Tentative Structure and Time management (Please provide a structure of the workshop with a time schedule.) 8.Method of assessing and recording feedback from participants 9.Maximum number of words (parts 4-8 above) is 500. |
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Registration |
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All categories of registration are inclusive of conference material, food (lunch and tea) and access to all sessions but do not include accommodation, travel, breakfast and dinner.
Demand draft/ cheque to be drawn in favour of 'Indian Journal of Medical Ethics' payable at Mumbai and posted to the National Secretariat address. Please add Rs. 30 for outstation cheques (for participants based in India). For direct cash transfer: Name of the institution- Indian Journal of Medical Ethics Bank name- Bank of India Bank address- PINHEIRO apartment, 19 A, St.John Baptist Road, Bandra (west), Mumbai, 400050, Maharashtra, India Savings Account No- 009410110001275 IFSC Code- BKID0000094 SWIFT Code- BKIDINBBRNM |
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Call for abstracts and proposals for workshops |
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The scientific committee of the Third National Bioethics Conference seeks abstracts of papers, and proposals for holding workshops, on topics relevant to bioethics. These must be in line with the conference theme: “Governance of healthcare – ethics, equity and justice.”
Abstract and proposal deadline: July 31, 2010 Some of the issues which will be discussed in the conference:
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