Early Career Bioethics Network - Organisation and Co-leads

Co-leads for 2024 & 2025

Sualeha Shekhani (Organizer- Online Events) | 2024- till 2025

Priya Sharma (Organizer- Online Events) | 2024- till July 2025

Sunu C Thomas (Organizer- Online Events)- From Aug 2025

Core Working Group Members 2023

Sunu C Thomas (Organizer- Online Events)

Roshani Babu (Organizer- Online Events)

Sualeha Shekhani (Organizer- Online Events)

Farzeena Habeeb (Co-organizer- Online Events)

Bedabrat Sharma (Co-Organizer/Website designing)

Priya Sharma (Co-organizer- Online Events)

Persis Naumann (Social Media Coordination (SMC): LinkedIn)

Duha (Co-organizer- Online Events)

Ritash (Co-organizer- Online Events)

Supriya Subramani (Founder/Organizer/SMC-X- Online Events)

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Priya Sharma

Assistant Professor

Humanities and Social Sciences

T. A. Pai Management Institute (TAPMI), Bengaluru

Co-Lead

Sualeha Siddiq Shekhani

Assistant Professor, Centre of Biomedical Ethics and Culture (CBEC), SIUT, Karachi, Pakistan

I identify as an early-career scholar in bioethics. My primary education is in the field of social sciences with advanced training in Health Policy along with Bioethics. I have been associated with CBEC since the past ten years. My research interest lies in the areas of gender, health and medicine. Areas of expertise within bioethics include research ethics governance structures along with the philosophical foundations of the discipline of bioethics.

Email address: shekhanisualeha@gmail.com

Co-Lead & Anchor Member

CORE COMMUNITY MEMBERS

Persis Naumann

Center for Global Health Ethics,

Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, USA

Global Health Ethicist, Fulbright Nehru-Research Scholar, and Social Entrepreneur with 20 years of interdisciplinary experience in healthcare ethics research, teaching, practice, and policy. Specialized in women’s health and infertility addressing issues of class, culture, race, and gender, while advancing equity in heritage language access and cross-cultural engagement.

email: persisnaumann@gmail.com

Social Media Coordination: LinkedIn

Sunu C Thomas

Assistant Professor, Public Health in School of Medicine, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi. She is also a gender equity/GBV evidence accelerator fellow at Johns Hopkins Centre for Global Women's Health and Gender Equity. She works in the area of gender, bioethics and sexual and reproductive health. Her research work focuses on women's health issues and its intersection with gender.

email: sunusarathomas@gmail.com

Organizer & Anchor Member

Supriya Subramani

Except for the last five years, my life was in India. Having lived with experiences of being at multiple margins, questions around disrespect, how we experience it, and how it shapes a person’s identity and sense of self are central to my research projects. Currently, I am focused on the phenomenon of othering and its relation to the ethics of belonging in health ethics discourse, along with reflexive methodologies and epistemological questions. For more details: www.supriyasubramani.com

email: supriyasubramani90@gmail.com

Founder & Organizer: SABC

Ritash is a neuroqueer, gender fluid, panromantic Ace with invisibilized disabilities, LGBTQIAP+ peer counsellor & co-founder RANG Foundation

Instagram: @ritashachanta