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Theme : Governance of healthcare - ethics, equity and justice
Dates: 17 - 20 November, 2010
Venue: New Delhi
Background and vision Indian Journal of Medical Ethics (www.ijme.in ), a peer reviewed, indexed journal (known first as Medical Ethics and later as Issues in Medical Ethics), started publication in 1993 as a forum for discussion on healthcare ethics and for scientific exchange and debate on bioethics. As a pioneer and leader in this field, IJME played the role of fostering commitment to bioethics, mentoring individuals interested in specialising in the subject, and, most important, ensuring that institutions were sensitised to the need for establishing formal structures for ethical conduct, and making them work. The National Bioethics Conference With the evolution of the sector, the need emerged for sharing ideas and building a platform for different stakeholders to come together and discuss ethical issues in the healthcare field. There was also a need to promote indigenous, original thinking and experimentation so as to develop an ethical framework suitable for the specific contexts in which we work in India. It was in recognition of this role that IJME needed to play, that the idea of organising National Bioethics Conferences was evolved. The first NBC, on the theme Ethical challenges in healthcare, global context, Indian realities, was held at the YMCA International Centre, Mumbai, on November 25-27, 2005. NBC 1 was co-organised by 20 institutions. The second NBC was on the theme Moral and ethical imperatives of healthcare technologies: scientific, legal and socio-economic perspectives on use and misuse. NBC 2 was held at the NIMHANS (National Institute for Mental Health and Neurosciences) Convention Centre, Bangalore, on December 6-8, 2007. Participation had grown and 38 organisations were involved in the second NBC. National Bioethics Conference 2010 Governance of healthcare – ethics, equity and justice In recent decades, the Indian health sector has seen revolutionary changes. With the wave of globalisation that has hit the country, world class technologies, super-specialities and big corporate and private sector hospitals have emerged. However, these are distanced from the country’s poor and needy. Globalisation has 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 gaping holes and discrepancies in the public healthcare setup which caters to a significant proportion of the population. Keeping these facts in mind, the third NBC, on the theme Governance of healthcare: ethics, equity and justice, is being held from November 17 to 20, 2010, at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, the premier medical institute in the country. NBC 3 aims to bring together diverse perspectives on governance in healthcare, towards building an equitable and just health system. It will provide a platform for achieving a productive dialogue between practitioners, administrators, policy-makers and activists towards 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 this research to be published in national and international journals so that it reaches a wider audience.
- To create a forum for organising 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 issues and from a range of perspectives with a view to enlighten healthcare practice, policy making and management from a bioethics perspective.
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: +9111 65637632, 26692730
Email: sama.womenshealth@gmail.com / sama.genderhealth@gmail.com | |
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National Advisory Committee
Dr Syeda Hameed, Member, Planning Commission of India;
Justice Leila Seth (Retd),Former Member, Law Commission 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.
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George Thomas (IJME),
Neha Madhiwalla (CSER),
Peush Sahni (AIIMS),
Renu Saxena (AIIMS),
Sarojini NB (SAMA).
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Abstracts
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NBC 2010 abstracts
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NBC 2010 participants
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NBC 2007 supplement issue cover
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NBC 2007 concept note
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NBC 2007 programme details
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NBC 2007 abstract bionotes and organisers.
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NBC 2005 supplement issue
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Presentations
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NBC-2 PRESENTATIONS
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NBC-3 PRESENTATIONS
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