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JesaniDr Amar Jesani
Managing Trustee
Anusandhan Trust
The Anusandhan Trust manages three institutions in India: the Centre for Enquiry into Health and Allied Themes (CEHAT) and Centre for Studies in Ethics and Rights (CSER) in Mumbai, and Support for Advocacy and Training to Health Initiatives (SATHI) in Pune, and Amar is the Managing Trustee of all three. He is also one of the founders of the Forum for Medical Ethics Society and its journal, the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics (IJME) and is presently on its editorial board. He was National Coordinator of the two National Bioethics Conferences of the IJME (in 2005 and 2007) and is the national faculty of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) for its NIH supported research bioethics training programme and a visiting faculty teaching bioethics at five institutions in India. Since 1979, he has done 16 research and training projects, has co-authored and co-edited six books. His latest edited book, ‘Ethics in health research: A social science perspective’ was released in 2005.
PEOPLE
UPCOMING EVENTS
Thursday 27 June:
Oxfordshire Championship at Oxford Union, in partnership with Magdalen College School and Oxford Festival of Arts
Friday 5 July:
North East Championship at Durham Sixth Form Centre
CHAMPIONSHIP ARCHIVE
Find a list of all our previous championship events here.
SUPPORT DEBATING MATTERS
Bernie Whelan, our DM coordinator, is raising money for Debating Matters.
To stage one of our Championships for six to 12 teams costs £6,000. Find out more on Bernie’s
Wonderful fundraising page.
