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IJME National Bioethics Conference 2010

Governance of healthcare: ethics, equity and justice
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi, November 17-20, 2010.

The IJME National Bioethics Conference is a platform for different stakeholders to come together and discuss ethical issues in healthcare. The conference provides participants exposure and orientation to bioethics and creates a forum for continued discussion. This year, the theme for the conference was Governance of healthcare: ethics, equity and justice.
  

 Conference Programme Schedule

http://www.ijme.in/ijmenbc/conference_prog.php

 

About the National Bioethics Conference

http://www.ijme.in/ijmenbc/about_nbc.php

 

Accommodation details

http://www.ijme.in/ijmenbc/accommodation.php

 

Collaborating Organisations  

http://www.ijme.in/ijmenbc/collaborating.php 

 

ICICI Centre for Child Health and Nutrition (ICCHN) fellowships  

http://www.ijme.in/ijmenbc/icchn_fellowship.php 

 

Workshop on Publication Ethics

http://www.ijme.in/ijmenbc/workshop_publication.php  

 

Symposium for Ethics Committee member

http://www.ijme.in/ijmenbc/symposium.php 

 

Workshops

http://www.ijme.in/ijmenbc/workshop.php  

 

National Advisory Committee

Dr Syeda Hameed, Member, Planning Commission of India
Justice (Retired) Leela Seth, Supreme Court of India
Dr M K Bhan, Secretary, Government of India, Department of Biotechnology
Dr Srinath Reddy, Director, Public Health Foundation of India
Dr Samiran Nundy , Head, Department of Surgical Gastroenterology, Sir Gangaram Hospital

 

National Organising Committee

George Thomas (IJME), Neha Madhiwalla (CSER), Peush Sahni (AIIMS),

Renu Saxena (AIIMS), Sarojini NB (SAMA).                                                                            

 

 

For any queries, please contact:

 

National Secretariat, NBC-3

Indian Journal of Medical Ethics National Bioethics Conference

Centre for Studies in Ethics and Rights

501, Dalkhania House, B Wing,  Behind State Bank of India,

Nehru Road, Vakola Pipe Line, Santacruz (East),

Mumbai 400 055 INDIA

Phone: (91 22) 2668 1568

E- mail: nbcdelhi@gmail.com

 

Local Secretariat, NBC-3

Sama- Resource Group for Women and Health

2nd floor, B 45, Shivalik Main, Malviya Nagar, New Delhi- 110017

Phone: (91 11)6563 7632, 2669 2730

Email: sama.womenshealth@gmail.com/ sama.genderhealth@gmail.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • National Bioethics Conference 2010

    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.