Meet the Conference Committees
Organising Committee
Sunita Bandewar
Sunita Bandewar
Dr. Sunita Sheel Bandewar, General Secretary, FMES, Mumbai, India, has training in Anthropology and Bioethics. She was with CEHAT 2013 Centre for Enquiry into Health and Allied Themes, Anusandhan Trust, for 15 years. She was awarded an International Fellowship by the International Fogarty Centre, NIH, USA, to pursue a Masters in Health Sciences (Bioethics) at the Joint Centre for Bioethics, University of Toronto, Canada, in 2003-04. Her engagement with health as a field of enquiry over these past 20 years is primarily via empirical research and advocacy in the areas of women and health, global health, and bioethics. She was a senior research fellow in bioethics and global health at the University of Toronto on the initiative titled 201 Ethical, Social, Cultural Program in Global Health 201, Canada, for five years. Through this programme, she had extensive opportunities to work in the African continent and engage with the newer ethical challenges in global health. She has published a number of papers in peer reviewed journals. Amongst others, she serves on the International Ethics Review Board, Medecins Sans Frontieres, Geneva; and as Secretary on the Managing Committee, Forum for Medical Ethics Society, Mumbai, the publisher of the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics (IJME). She served on the Board of Trustees of Sama Resource Group for Women and Health, New Delhi between 2013 and 2016. Her primary engagement is her association with the IJME, as one of the working editors. She is deeply involved in organisational matters with FMES. She is affiliated to the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, and is also one of the founding trustees of Vidhayak Trust, Pune. Besides these commitments as a volunteer, she works independently as a senior research professional, a consultant and a trainer in the areas of bioethics, global health, research methodology, programme evaluation and policy analysis
Lubna Duggal
Lubna Duggal
Lubna Duggal is Consultant — Word Lab at Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bengaluru. She is Associate Editor at Urbanisation, a biannual journal anchored at IIHS and published by SAGE Publications. She manages the peer review, copyediting and publication processes for the journal. As part of the IIHS Word Lab, she provides editorial assistance for other in-house publications and works by IIHS researchers and practitioners, including academic papers, grey literature and public-facing formats. She teaches in the Urban Fellows Programme’s Writing Skill Lab on reading, writing and editing academic literature.
Prior to IIHS, Lubna worked with Economic & Political Weekly (EPW), Mumbai, as senior assistant editor where she was responsible for reviewing and editing submissions, writing editorials, and managing the production of weekly issues. She worked on the development and implementation of EPW’s house style, the peer review process, and the article management system.
Lubna holds an MA in Interdisciplinary Humanities from Manipal Centre for Philosophy and Humanities, Manipal University. Her dissertation emerged from her interest in feminist philosophy to examine the conceptualisation and training of the body in classical dance, with a focus on Bharatanatyam and her experience of learning the dance form.
She is a member of the managing committee of the Forum for Medical Ethics Society (FMES) and a working editor of the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics (IJME) — a journal published by FMES.
Sayantan Datta
Sayantan Datta
Sayantan Datta (they/them) is an independent science journalist and an assistant professor at the Centre for Writing & Pedagogy, Krea University. They write and research at the intersections of gender, sexuality, caste, science and health, with a particular focus on the lived experiences of queer, transgender, and intersex people. They have been awarded the 2023 Laadli Media & Advertising Award for Gender Sensitivity for their report on gender-segregated hostels in Indian science institutions. In 2024, they were jointly awarded (with Vivek Tewary) the inaugural Ashoka-SAGE Prize for Critical Writing Pedagogies for their paper that detailed the similarities and differences between reading and writing mathematics for technical and non-technical audiences. Their work has been supported by the National Association for Science Writers, USA, the UK Research Initiative’s Transforming Education for Sustainable Futures project, and the ReFrame Institute of Art and Expression.
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National Advisory Committee
Sunita Bandewar
Sunita Bandewar
Dr. Sunita Sheel Bandewar, General Secretary, FMES, Mumbai, India, has training in Anthropology and Bioethics. She was with CEHAT 2013 Centre for Enquiry into Health and Allied Themes, Anusandhan Trust, for 15 years. She was awarded an International Fellowship by the International Fogarty Centre, NIH, USA, to pursue a Masters in Health Sciences (Bioethics) at the Joint Centre for Bioethics, University of Toronto, Canada, in 2003-04. Her engagement with health as a field of enquiry over these past 20 years is primarily via empirical research and advocacy in the areas of women and health, global health, and bioethics. She was a senior research fellow in bioethics and global health at the University of Toronto on the initiative titled 201 Ethical, Social, Cultural Program in Global Health 201, Canada, for five years. Through this programme, she had extensive opportunities to work in the African continent and engage with the newer ethical challenges in global health. She has published a number of papers in peer reviewed journals. Amongst others, she serves on the International Ethics Review Board, Medecins Sans Frontieres, Geneva; and as Secretary on the Managing Committee, Forum for Medical Ethics Society, Mumbai, the publisher of the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics (IJME). She served on the Board of Trustees of Sama Resource Group for Women and Health, New Delhi between 2013 and 2016. Her primary engagement is her association with the IJME, as one of the working editors. She is deeply involved in organisational matters with FMES. She is affiliated to the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, and is also one of the founding trustees of Vidhayak Trust, Pune. Besides these commitments as a volunteer, she works independently as a senior research professional, a consultant and a trainer in the areas of bioethics, global health, research methodology, programme evaluation and policy analysis
Lubna Duggal
Lubna Duggal
Lubna Duggal is Consultant — Word Lab at Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bengaluru. She is Associate Editor at Urbanisation, a biannual journal anchored at IIHS and published by SAGE Publications. She manages the peer review, copyediting and publication processes for the journal. As part of the IIHS Word Lab, she provides editorial assistance for other in-house publications and works by IIHS researchers and practitioners, including academic papers, grey literature and public-facing formats. She teaches in the Urban Fellows Programme’s Writing Skill Lab on reading, writing and editing academic literature.
Prior to IIHS, Lubna worked with Economic & Political Weekly (EPW), Mumbai, as senior assistant editor where she was responsible for reviewing and editing submissions, writing editorials, and managing the production of weekly issues. She worked on the development and implementation of EPW’s house style, the peer review process, and the article management system.
Lubna holds an MA in Interdisciplinary Humanities from Manipal Centre for Philosophy and Humanities, Manipal University. Her dissertation emerged from her interest in feminist philosophy to examine the conceptualisation and training of the body in classical dance, with a focus on Bharatanatyam and her experience of learning the dance form.
She is a member of the managing committee of the Forum for Medical Ethics Society (FMES) and a working editor of the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics (IJME) — a journal published by FMES.
Sayantan Datta
Sayantan Datta
Sayantan Datta (they/them) is an independent science journalist and an assistant professor at the Centre for Writing & Pedagogy, Krea University. They write and research at the intersections of gender, sexuality, caste, science and health, with a particular focus on the lived experiences of queer, transgender, and intersex people. They have been awarded the 2023 Laadli Media & Advertising Award for Gender Sensitivity for their report on gender-segregated hostels in Indian science institutions. In 2024, they were jointly awarded (with Vivek Tewary) the inaugural Ashoka-SAGE Prize for Critical Writing Pedagogies for their paper that detailed the similarities and differences between reading and writing mathematics for technical and non-technical audiences. Their work has been supported by the National Association for Science Writers, USA, the UK Research Initiative’s Transforming Education for Sustainable Futures project, and the ReFrame Institute of Art and Expression.
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Scientific Committee
Sunita Bandewar
Sunita Bandewar
Dr. Sunita Sheel Bandewar, General Secretary, FMES, Mumbai, India, has training in Anthropology and Bioethics. She was with CEHAT 2013 Centre for Enquiry into Health and Allied Themes, Anusandhan Trust, for 15 years. She was awarded an International Fellowship by the International Fogarty Centre, NIH, USA, to pursue a Masters in Health Sciences (Bioethics) at the Joint Centre for Bioethics, University of Toronto, Canada, in 2003-04. Her engagement with health as a field of enquiry over these past 20 years is primarily via empirical research and advocacy in the areas of women and health, global health, and bioethics. She was a senior research fellow in bioethics and global health at the University of Toronto on the initiative titled 201 Ethical, Social, Cultural Program in Global Health 201, Canada, for five years. Through this programme, she had extensive opportunities to work in the African continent and engage with the newer ethical challenges in global health. She has published a number of papers in peer reviewed journals. Amongst others, she serves on the International Ethics Review Board, Medecins Sans Frontieres, Geneva; and as Secretary on the Managing Committee, Forum for Medical Ethics Society, Mumbai, the publisher of the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics (IJME). She served on the Board of Trustees of Sama Resource Group for Women and Health, New Delhi between 2013 and 2016. Her primary engagement is her association with the IJME, as one of the working editors. She is deeply involved in organisational matters with FMES. She is affiliated to the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, and is also one of the founding trustees of Vidhayak Trust, Pune. Besides these commitments as a volunteer, she works independently as a senior research professional, a consultant and a trainer in the areas of bioethics, global health, research methodology, programme evaluation and policy analysis
Lubna Duggal
Lubna Duggal
Lubna Duggal is Consultant — Word Lab at Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bengaluru. She is Associate Editor at Urbanisation, a biannual journal anchored at IIHS and published by SAGE Publications. She manages the peer review, copyediting and publication processes for the journal. As part of the IIHS Word Lab, she provides editorial assistance for other in-house publications and works by IIHS researchers and practitioners, including academic papers, grey literature and public-facing formats. She teaches in the Urban Fellows Programme’s Writing Skill Lab on reading, writing and editing academic literature.
Prior to IIHS, Lubna worked with Economic & Political Weekly (EPW), Mumbai, as senior assistant editor where she was responsible for reviewing and editing submissions, writing editorials, and managing the production of weekly issues. She worked on the development and implementation of EPW’s house style, the peer review process, and the article management system.
Lubna holds an MA in Interdisciplinary Humanities from Manipal Centre for Philosophy and Humanities, Manipal University. Her dissertation emerged from her interest in feminist philosophy to examine the conceptualisation and training of the body in classical dance, with a focus on Bharatanatyam and her experience of learning the dance form.
She is a member of the managing committee of the Forum for Medical Ethics Society (FMES) and a working editor of the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics (IJME) — a journal published by FMES.
Sayantan Datta
Sayantan Datta
Sayantan Datta (they/them) is an independent science journalist and an assistant professor at the Centre for Writing & Pedagogy, Krea University. They write and research at the intersections of gender, sexuality, caste, science and health, with a particular focus on the lived experiences of queer, transgender, and intersex people. They have been awarded the 2023 Laadli Media & Advertising Award for Gender Sensitivity for their report on gender-segregated hostels in Indian science institutions. In 2024, they were jointly awarded (with Vivek Tewary) the inaugural Ashoka-SAGE Prize for Critical Writing Pedagogies for their paper that detailed the similarities and differences between reading and writing mathematics for technical and non-technical audiences. Their work has been supported by the National Association for Science Writers, USA, the UK Research Initiative’s Transforming Education for Sustainable Futures project, and the ReFrame Institute of Art and Expression.
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