Select contribution of the core team and FMES members
Papers published in journals
Blogs published at ‘Covid-19 Insights: Analysis from ethics, law and human rights perspectives’ (a blog space jointly run by HEaL Institute and IJME)
Writings in the popular press
Forthcoming and concluded webinars co-hosted
Forthcoming and concluded webinars with core team members as panelists
Videos | Participation of core team in webinars and media panels
Papers published in journals
1. Singh, J. A., Bandewar, S.S., Palmero, A., Bhan, A. and others (2021). Acquiescence and submission to COVID-19 vaccination: ethics considerations [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]. Wellcome Open Research, 6(91), 1-8.
2. Gopichandran V, Subramaniam S. (2020). Response to Covid-19: An ethical imperative to build a resilient health system in India. Indian J Med Ethics. Apr-Jun; 5(2)NS: 89-92.
3. Gopichandran V. (2020). Clinical ethics during the Covid-19 pandemic: Missing the trees for the forest. Indian J Med Ethics. Jul-Sep; 5(3) 182.
4. Gopichandran V. (2020). Integrity during pandemic times: The case for flexible adamancy. Indian J Med Ethics. July-Sep. 5(3) 1-4.
5. Gopichandran V. (2020). Moving from clinical to pragmatic equipoise in health policy and systems research. Indian J Med Ethics. July-Sep. 5(3) 1-4.
6. Ghoshal R. (2020). Twin public health emergencies: Covid-19 and domestic violence. Indian J Med Ethics. Jul-Sep; 5(3) NS: 195-9.
7. Singh, J. A, Bandewar, VS. & Elizabeth E. A. (2020). The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic response on other health research. Geneva: Bulletin of the World Health Organization, pp. 1-13
Blogs published at ‘Covid-19 Insights: Analysis from ethics, law and human rights perspectives’
Blog 25 | HEaL Institute & IJME – Covid-19 Insights | May 25, 2021 | Letter to PMO on Collective demand for a people’s vaccine in India | FMES and Oxfam India
Blog 24 | HEaL Institute & IJME – Covid-19 Insights | May 13, 2021 | Open letter expressing concerns about convalescent plasma for COVID-19 | Yogesh Jain, Vivekanand Jha, Soumyadeep Bhaumik, Soumitra Pathare, Shahid Jameel, Priti Meena, Prathap Tharyan, Prashanth N Srinivas, Oommen John, Kamna Kakkar, Jyoti Tyagi, Gautam Menon, Gagandeep Kang, C.S. Pramesh, Sharita Saran, Aparna Ananthakrishnan, Anant Bhan, Amar Jesani
Blog 23 | HEaL Institute & IJME – Covid-19 Insights | May 10, 2021 | Civil Society Statement of Concern – Free Vaccines for All Without Tech Barriers | FMES, IFF, RAC, SMC
Blog 22 | HEaL Institute & IJME – Covid-19 Insights | April 28, 2021 | Requesting Indian Government to issue government use Compulsory Licence for TB drugs bedaquiline and delamanid | Jan Swasthya Abhiyan
Blog 21 | HEaL Institute & IJME – Covid-19 Insights | Feb. 17, 2021 | Investigations of deaths of 11 healthcare and frontline workers following administration of COVID-19 vaccine | Sandhya Srinivasan, Dr Amar Jesani, Adv Veena Johari, Dr Antony R Kollanur…
Blog 20 | HEaL Institute & IJME – Covid-19 Insights | Jan. 12, 2021 | Irregularities and ethical violations in the conduct of the clinical trial for Bharat Biotech’s COVAXIN | Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationery Karmchari Sangh, Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Purush Sangharsh Morcha, Bhopal Group for Information and Action, Children Against Dow Carbide
Blog 19 | HEaL Institute & IJME – Covid-19 Insights | Dec 10, 2020 | Serum Institute of India’s application for emergency approval for COVISHIELD | All India Drug Action Network
Blog 18 | HEaL Institute & IJME – Covid-19 Insights | Podcast | Oct 23, 2020 Being Diagnosed with COVID-19: Reflecting on the experience with Dr. Usha Sriram | Dr. Usha Sriram, Supriya Subramani
Blog 17 | HEaL Institute & IJME – Covid-19 Insights | Podcast | Oct 22, 2020 | Ethics in Practice with Dr. Usha Sriram | Dr. Usha Sriram, Supriya Subramani
Blog 16 | HEaL Institute & IJME – Covid-19 Insights | Sep. 18, 2020 | Technical, legal, ethical and implementation concerns regarding Aarogya Setu and other apps introduced during COVID-19 in India | IFF, FMES, JSA, AIPSN
Blog 15 | HEaL Institute & IJME – Covid-19 Insights | Aug 29, 2020 | Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) and Covid-19 | Valerie Luyckx, Supriya Subramani
Blog 14 | HEaL Institute & IJME – Covid-19 Insights | July 21, 2020 | Refusing to treat due to lack of PPE: Brief insights and analysis | Olinda Timms
Blog 13 | HEaL Institute & IJME – Covid-19 Insights | July 16, 2020 | Being at the frontline of COVID 19: Conversations with grassroots health care workers: Abdication of State Responsibility | Contributors
Blog 12 | HEaL Institute & IJME – Covid-19 Insights | June 18, 2020 | Aatmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyaan: Abdication of State Responsibility | Ravi Duggal
Blog 11 | HEaL Institute & IJME – Covid-19 Insights | June 5, 2020 | Repercussions of the Covid – 19 pandemic on children’s nutrition status | P. Shirisha
Blog 10 | HEaL Institute & IJME – Covid-19 Insights | May 30, 2020 | Doctor’s duty to care and shortage of personal protective equipment: the ethical debate | Sanjai Subha
Blog 9 | HEaL Institute & IJME – Covid-19 Insights | May 25, 2020 | The Covid Conundrum | Shalini Mullick
Blog 8 | HEaL Institute & IJME – Covid-19 Insights | May 21, 2020 |Taking humanity out of the medical humanities: Doctors and Death amidst Covid-19 | Migita D’cruz
Blog 7 | HEaL Institute & IJME – Covid-19 Insights | May 11, 2020 | Kerala model of health governance: learnings and way forward | Deva Prasad M and Suchithra Menon
Blog 6 | HEaL Institute & IJME – Covid-19 Insights | May 8, 2020 | Tribal populations and India’s response to Covid-19: Has it been inclusive enough? | Deepika Joshi
Blog 5 | HEaL Institute & IJME – Covid-19 Insights | May 5, 2020 | द्रोणागिरी | Mohan Des | English Translated by Sangeeta Gandhe
Blog 4 | HEaL Institute & IJME – Covid-19 Insights | April 15, 2020 | Salience of effective public communication and transparency during Covid-19 | Supriya Subramani
Blog 3 | HEaL Institute & IJME – Covid-19 Insights | April 7, 2020 | COVID containment in Mumbai: Insights from public health ethics and rights perspective | Nilesh Gawde and Mathew George
Blog 2 | HEaL Institute – Covid 19 | April 4, 2020 | WHO’s ‘Guidance for Managing Ethical Issues for Infectious Disease Outbreaks’: Key Features and Genesis| Sunita V S Bandewar
Writings in the popular press
June 25, 2021 | The India Forum | In Dubious Battle: Ramdev versus the Indian Medical Association | Dr. Sanjay Nagral
O – Blog 43 | Mumbai Mirrar | November 20, 2020 | Lage Raho Munnabhai | Sanjay Nagral
O – Blog 42 | Mumbai Mirrar | November 13, 2020 | A quiet Diwali wish | Sanjay Nagral
O – Blog 41 | Mumbai Mirrar | November 06, 2020 | The Trump versus Fauci contest| Sanjay Nagral
O – Blog 40 | Mumbai Mirrar | October 30, 2020 | A Capitalist Socialist vaccine | Sanjay Nagral
O – Blog 39 | Mumbai Mirrar | October 23, 2020 | Scapegoats of our being | Sanjay Nagral
O – Blog 38 | Mumbai Mirrar | October 16, 2020 | The patient behind the curtain | Sanjay Nagral
O – Blog 37 | Mumbai Mirrar | October 09, 2020 | One bottle of blood… | Sanjay Nagral
O – Blog 36 | Mumbai Mirrar | October 02, 2020 | When doctors become patients | Sanjay Nagral
O – Blog 35 | Mumbai Mirrar | September 25, 2020 | Second Opinion: The winner takes it all | Sanjay Nagral
O – Blog 34 | Mumbai Mirrar | September 18, 2020 | Ram Bharose | Sanjay Nagral
O – Blog 33 | Mumbai Mirrar | September 11, 2020 | One step backward two steps forward | Sanjay Nagral
O – Blog 32 | Mumbai Mirrar | September 4, 2020 | Hand in hand | Sanjay Nagral
O – Blog 31 | Mumbai Mirrar | August 28, 2020 | The doctor who doesn’t know! | Sanjay Nagral
O – Blog 30 | Mumbai Mirrar | August 21, 2020 | A different Ganesha | Sanjay Nagral
O – Blog 29 | Mumbai Mirrar | August 14, 2020 | A village at Sea | Sanjay Nagral
O – Blog 28 | Mumbai Mirrar | August 7, 2020 | Second opinion: Missing the woods for the trees | Sanjay Nagral
O – Blog 27 | Mumbai Mirrar | July 31, 2020 | ‘Positives’ from the debris of Covid? | Sanjay Nagral
O – Blog 26 | Mumbai Mirrar | July 24, 2020 | True endurance | Sanjay Nagral
O – Blog 25 | Mumbai Mirrar | July 17, 2020 | The Superstar Illness | Sanjay Nagral
O – Blog 24 | Mumbai Mirror | July 10, 2020 | Second Opinion: The missing link | Sanjay Nagral
O – Blog 23 | Mumbai Mirror | July 3, 2020 | What the departed teach us | Sanjay Nagral
O – Blog 22 | Mumbai Mirror | June 26, 2020 | Can Ayush cure Covid? | Sanjay Nagral
O – Blog 21 | Mumbai Mirror | June 19, 2020 | Health Economics for Dummies | Sanjay Nagral
O – Blog 20 | Deccan Herald | June 16, 2020 | Telemedicine: Bridging the gap | Olinda Timms
O – Blog 19 | Mumbai Mirrar | June 12, 2020 | The constant caretaker | Sanjay Nagral
O – Blog 18 | Mumbai Mirrar | June 5, 2020 | Resident doctors ko gussa kyun aata hain? | Sanjay Nagral
O – Blog 17 | Mumbai Mirrar | May 29, 2020 | Second Opinion : Critical questions in times of Covid | Sanjay Nagral
O – Blog 16 | Facebook | May 22, 2020 | Covid-19 Converting a public health crises into an economic & humanitarian crises | Ravi Duggal
O – Blog 15 | Mumbai Mirror | May 22, 2020 | Second Opinion: Chronicle of a death foretold | Sanjay Nagral
O – Blog 14 | EINSTEIN | May 15, 2020 | Human Challenge Studies for a Covid-19 Vaccine: Ethical Quandaries | Ruth Macklin
O – Blog 13 | Mumbai Mirror | May 15, 2020 | Second Opinion : A tragedy goes viral! | Sanjay Nagral
O – Blog 12 | Storytellers | May 12, 2020 | Covid-19 – call to put back people in the center and not the disease | Vijayaprasad Gopichandran and Sudharshini Subramaniam
O – Blog 11 | Mumbai Mirror | May 12, 2020 | Lessons from AIDS | Sanjay Nagral
O – Blog 10 | Storytellers | April 27, 2020 | Through the masked face, express empathy | Vijayaprasad Gopichandran
O – Blog 9 | Mumbai Mirror | April 24, 2020 | The Class of ’79 | Sanjay Nagral
O – Blog 8 | Mumbai Mirror | April 17, 2020 | Should I or should I not? | Sanjay Nagral
O – Blog 7 | Mumbai Mirror | April 10, 2020 | Covid Round 1: The bottom of the healthcare pyramid | Sanjay Nagral
O – Blog 6 | Mumbai Mirror | April 3, 2020 | Gasping for breath | Sanjay Nagral
O – Blog 5| April 1, 2020 | Solidarity in the time of Covid-19 | Vijayaprasad Gopichandran
O – Blog 4 | Mumbai Mirror | March 27, 2020 | A ‘surgical’ strategy to fight coronavirus | Sanjay Nagral
O – Blog 3 | Mumbai Mirror | March 20, 2020 | Second Opinion: Sabka saath in the times of corona | Sanjay Nagral
O – Blog 2 | March 15, 2020 | Social distancing…..you must be kidding me | by Vijayaprasad Gopichandran, Sudharshini Subramanian, Vinod H Krishnamoorthy
O – Blog 1 | Mumbai Mirror | March 13, 2020 | Reminders from the coronavirus | Sanjay Nagral
Forthcoming and concluded webinars hosted or co-hosted by HEaL Institute, FMES
Forthcoming and concluded webinars with core team members as panelists
June 23, 2021 | TWN | Pharma Corporations demand Indeminity in Lieu of mRNA Vaccine Supply: Legal and Ethical Issues | Dr Amar Jesani, Adv. Anand Grover, Murali Neelkantan, Leena Meghaney
November 7 to 21, 2020 | Ethical and Legal Challenges in Research on Preventive Vaccines and in Making Approved Vaccines Accessible | Amar Jesani, Sarojini Nadimpally, Yogesh Jain, Veena Johari and S (Chinu) Srinivasan, With techinical support Sama Resource Group for Women and Health
October 14, 2020 | The Suno India Show | Are controlled human infection studies for a COVID 19 vaccine ethical? A bioethicist explains why not | Sandhya Srinivasan, Dr Amar Jesani
October 14, 2020 | The Suno India Show | Why are most of the medicines being approved for COVID-19 so expensive? | Sandhya Srinivasan, Veena Johari
September 24, 2020 | Webinar 1: Scientific and Ethical Standards of Clinical Trials in Public Health Emergencies starts in 1 Day | 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM IST | Amar Jesani
July 25, 2020 | NAAVU BHARATHIYARU | The Roles and responsibilities of the healthcare system in the context of police brutality and torture | Veena Vaswani and Amar Jesani
July 7, 2020 | ISRC | ISRC Discussion Meeting Speeding Up Vaccine Trial in India | Amar Jesani , Shahid Jameel
June 15 & 16, 2020 | HSNC University, KC College, Mumbai | Research in times of Covid-19 | Speakers: Dr. Joseph M.T. & Dr. Amar Jesani
Videos | Participation of core team in webinars and media panels
April 19, 2021 | COVID 19 – Masks, Vaccines and Lockdowns: Rights or Wrongs? | India Science Festival, January 2021 | Dr. Richard Cash, Dr. Amar Jesani, Dr. Jennifer Leaning
July 8, 2020 | ISRC | ISRC Discussion on “Speeding up Vaccine Trial in India” with Dr. Shahid Jameel and Dr. Amar Jesani
July 2, 2020 | The Fineprint: Patanjali | Amar Jesanai and Murali Neelakantan
June 29, 2020 | Suno India | Webinar: Ethical Challenges Of Research In A Pandemic | Dr SP Kalantri, Dr Amar Jesani, Advt. Veena Johari, Moderator: Sandhya Srinivasan
May 29, 2020 | CHSJ | Being at frontline of Covid 19: Conversation with the Grassroots Healthcare Workers in India. Co-hosted by HEaL Institute, FMES.
May 22, 2020 | MOJO STORY | Have Private Hospitals Failed Mumbai? As the City Runs Short of Beds, Government Caps Fees | Sanjay Nagral
April 16, 2020 | ELSEVIER | Webinar Professionalism on the front line | Speaker: Olinda Timms
April 8, 2020 | FMES-IJME with NDTV | How can India provide medical assistance to people on road by Sanjay Nagral