A WEBINAR

She has conducted postdoctoral research at Indian Institute of Sciences (IISc), Bengaluru and Centre for Community Mental Health (CCMH), Mangalore. Her expertise spans clinical psychology, child development, cognitive psychology, community psychology and storytelling, with practical work using the Bayley Scales and community engagement through the Prachodana Reading Club. Actively involved with the Medical Service Centre, she led psychosocial interventions during the Wayanad landslide and coordinated an art-based psychosocial workshop with UNICEF and Kerala State Disaster Management Authority (KSDMA) at Loyola College. Dr. Lukose integrates academic rigor with community mental health initiatives across Kerala. Read more

He is a medical doctor and bioethicist with over 18 years of experience in global health, health policy, and bioethics. He holds an MHSc in Bioethics from the University of Toronto and a PGDMLE in Medical Law and Ethics from the National Law School of India University. Currently, he serves as Mentor, Principal Investigator, and Project Lead at the Bhopal Hub of Sangath. Dr. Bhan is the immediate past president of the International Association of Bioethics (2017–19) and an Adjunct Professor at Yenepoya (Deemed to be University). Widely published, he is also a sought-after trainer and guest faculty in research ethics and public health. Beyond academia, Anant contributes regularly to the media and actively shares scientific information through webinars and social media platforms. Read more

He is a practicing ophthalmologist, with wide experience in challenges to vision in rural and urban settings of Indian states of West Bengal, and Uttar Pradesh during his PG in Aligarh Muslim University Medical College. Since studying in 1977 for MBBS in the Calcutta National Medical College, Kolkata, the first medical college in Kolkata that was created through the aspirations of our revolutionary Freedom Struggle, he inherited the lofty ideals of that Institute, and was actively involved in understanding the health challenges of our country in its multiple dimensions, in reaching healthcare to the most marginalised in disasters and in normal times through development of Medical Service Centre, a unique socio-medical voluntary organisation comprising of all people in Health united on the anvil of medical ethics, to stand through disaster, distress and deprivation of Health to uphold Right of people to Health. He led the organisation over decades to be the General Secretary, and presently its Vice President. He has led missions of disaster medical response under diverse geo-climatic settings and conditions of India like floods, cyclones, earthquakes, and in one of the worst man-made disasters on the globe, the Bhopal Gas Disaster. He has been leading the logistic systems of the organisation in disasters and through diverse activities in times of peace since almost five decades of the existence of the organisation. Read more

She is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital one of the ten central hospitals and the main teaching hospital of the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. Prior to that she held a number of leadership and management positions in various hospitals in the Gauteng Province. She was trained as Physiotherapist from MEDUNSA (BSc Physiotherapy) and later obtained (MSc in Physiotherapy) and Master of Public Health (Hospital Management) from the University of the Witwatersrand. In addition, she had attended a number of management and leadership courses national and international, besides an ethics course offered by the Ethics Institute of South Africa. She has also done coaching courses, the latest through Catalysis from Thedacare in Wisconsin, USA. Over the last two decades, she held several leadership and management positions within the Physiotherapy professional groups (such as executive committee member of the South African Society of Physiotherapy, Stroke Foundation) and hospital management groups (such as Gauteng CEO forum). As part of leadership, she has provided coaching and mentorship sessions as part of leadership programme for CEO’s, Clinicians and university students. She is also very active with several community organizations. She has lectured in several universities and acted as an examiner at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Her research interest includes hospital based costing and operational planning. She presented in a number of national and international conferences. She is passionate about public service and believes we have world-class health standards. Read more

Prof Kusari-Basu is a principal specialist obstetrician & Gynecologist working as the head of the unit of obstetrics & Gynecology at the Ekurhuleni district clinical specialist team and a joint staff at the University of Witwatersrand (WITS). She is affiliated with South African medical Research Council Centre for Maternal, Fetal, Newborn and Child Health Care Strategies, University of Pretoria. She has presented in various national and international conferences and published many papers in international and national journals. She is an editorial board member of journals and is a reviewer of various journals. Read more

Dr Mukherjee is a trained and professional social worker. He has a Masters (Public health) and a PhD (Mass Communication and Journalism). He is currently the Director Centre for Public Health Research, Research Wing of MANT and a JBI affiliate centre. He has attended several short/executive courses from prestigious institutions/universities like Johns Hopkins University and the University of Pennsylvania. He has more than 23 years of experience in conceiving, designing, managing, & evaluating health & development projects in various capacities. Read more

He is Assistant Professor of Gastroenterology at IMS & SUM Hospital, Campus-II, Bhubaneswar, India. He holds a Postgraduate degree in Internal Medicine and a Postdoctoral degree in Gastroenterology. His work focuses on clinical medicine and research in Community and Preventive Hepatology. An active member of Medical Service Centre (MSC), he engages in disaster response, takes part in health camps promoting community education and bedside clinical training for medicos, and conducts discussions on the crisis of medical ethics and lessons from the lives of medical pioneers. He serves on the editorial boards of Health Spectra (Journal of MSC) and BMC Gastroenterology. Read more

He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Clinical Psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry, Kolkata, with a Ph.D. from the University of Calcutta, M.Phil from CIP Ranchi, and a Master’s from M.S. University of Baroda. With 16 years of teaching experience and at IOP since 2011, he published 37 research papers and serves on editorial boards of national and international journals. He is actively involved in disaster mental health since 2001. He received extensive training from global institutions. His interests include cognitive and behaviour therapy, hypnotherapy, and psychosomatic medicine. He holds leadership roles in key clinical psychology associations in India. Read more

He is a Clinical Physician, a leader of the People’s Health Movement, former Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha). Since studying in 1978 for MBBS in the Medical College, Kolkata, the first medical college in Asia, he inherited the lofty ideals of the premiere Institute, and was actively involved in understanding the health challenges of our country, and reaching healthcare to the most marginalised in disasters and in normal times as a Founder Member of Medical Service Centre, and presently its Vice President. Serving in the Central Government Health Services, he managed health care for government employees in Kolkata and Nashik for more than two decades (1986-2007). As a Member of the Parliamentary Standing Committees on Health and Family Welfare, IT and Consultative Committee Member of HRD and Rural Development Ministries, he upheld the people’s point of view in challenges and obstacles to achieving health and education and other essential facilities for the country including his backward constituency in The Sundarbans hit by Cyclone AILA 2009 and other cyclonic disasters one after another throughout his tenure and afterwards, and also for the marginalised people country-wide. When the Salary and Allowances of the MPs was hiked, he was the sole Parliamentary Member out of 796 to oppose it from the point of view of people’s need of the hour upholding his representation as a service to the nation not to gain something out of it. He dedicated the hiked amount of ₹60,000/- per month for health care and education of people of his constituency till the end of his tenure (2009-2014). He is the people’s voice in health, education and human rights, rights of the disaster-stricken community in the country holding high the banner of social and medical ethics. Read more