Abha Saxena

Abha Saxena at Children's Hospital Boston

Born|

Abha Saxena

India

Alma mater| All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi, India (AIIMS)
Era| 20th-century philosophy, 21st-century philosophy
Region| Western Philosophy, International Philosophy, Global health ethics
School| Ethical philosophy
Institutions|

All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi, India (AIIMS)
World Health Organization

As faculty member

All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi, India (AIIMS)

Main interests

* Ethics
* Justice
* Politics
* Public health
* Medical ethics
* global health
* population health
* health ethics

Abha Saxena is the Coordinator of the Global Health Ethics Unit of the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. In that role, she chairs the Research Ethics Review Committee and leads the Department of Ethics and Social Determinants (ESD) of WHO. She is married to WHO-based psychiatrist Shekhar Saxena.[1] Much of her work involves advising low and middle income countries about the ethics of resource allocation in addressing vector-borne diseases, aging, and other current medical and public health issues.

## Contents

* 1 Education
* 2 Career
* 3 Personal life
* 4 Select publications
* 5 References
* 6 External links

## Education

* MD, anaesthesiology - All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi, India (AIIMS).
* Medical residency - All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi, India (AIIMS).

## Career

Saxena was educated and trained in India as an anaesthesiologist.[2] For twenty years she practiced medicine actively in hospital and community-based research in India. She also was a faculty member and Professor at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India (AIIMS),[3][4] which was founded in 1956.[5]

In 2001, she joined the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, where her husband, Shekhar Saxena, is also employed as the Director of the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse (MSD). Since 2002, Saxena has been managing the WHO Research Ethics Review Committee. At WHO, she conducts short training programs in research ethics not only for WHO staff, but also in several African and Asian countries, using many of the case studies that were included in the Casebook on Ethical Issues in International Health Research,[6] which has been translated into at least five languages. She is now Director and Coordinator of WHO's Global Health Ethics Unit.[7][8][9] [10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22]

## Personal life

Saxena is married to Shekhar Saxena, also of the World Health Organization,[23] and together they live in Geneva, Switzerland. They have two adult daughters.[24][better source needed]

## Select publications

* Cash, R, Wikler, D, Saxena, A., Capron, A. Casebook on Ethical Issues in International Health Research, Geneva: World Health Organization, 2009, 2010. Translated into five languages, including Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish. ISBN 9789241547727; second edition forthcoming. ISBN 978 92 4 154772 7 (NLM classification: W 20.5).
* Saxena, A, Gomes, M. Ethical challenges to responding to the Ebola epidemic: The World Health Organization experience. Clinical Trials 2006 (January):13(1). doi:10.1177/1740774515621870.

## References

1. ↑ Growing ethics capacity for implementation research. WHO. TDR news item. 3 March 2015
2. ↑ Menon, Ramesh (31 October 1993). "Counselling, new medical techniques give cancer patients better chance of survival". India Today. https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/living/story/19931031-counselling-new-medical-techniques-give-cancer-patients-better-chance-of-survival-811729-1993-10-31. Retrieved 2 October 2018.
3. ↑ Site2Corp profile for Abha Saxena, MD, of India - conflates with a different Abha Saxena, MD, a nephrologist at UnityPoint Village Diabetes and Kidney Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in the USA
4. ↑ Who Gets the Experimental Ebola Drugs? Time, Tuesday 12 August 2014, accessed 11/27/2017
5. ↑ All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi
6. ↑ Cash, R, Wikler, D, Saxena, A., Capron, A. Casebook on Ethical Issues in International Health Research, Geneva: World Health Organization, 2009, 2010. Translated into five languages, including Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish. ISBN 9789241547727; second edition forthcoming. ISBN 978 92 4 154772 7 (NLM classification: W 20.5).
7. ↑ Venkatapuram, S., Ehni, H-J, Saxena, A. Equity and healthy ageing. Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 2017;95:791-792. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.2471/BLT.16.187609 18 September 2017
8. ↑ Global health ethics: WHO releases ethics guidance for public health surveillance. (inset video) 26 June 2017
9. ↑ Global Health Ethics – World Health Organization. PowerPoint Talk by Abha Saxena, MD, Global Summit-Berlin 2016
10. ↑ Global Health Ethics Key issues. Global Network of WHO Collaborating Centres for Bioethics. World Health Organization 2015. p. 5 (top) ISBN 978 92 4 069403 3 (PDF). ISBN 978 92 4 154911 0
11. ↑ AI for Good Summit Schedule, Day 2, 8 June 2017
12. ↑ Dr Abha Saxena, Coordinator, Global Health Ethics, World Health Organization, 8 July 2014, TGHN Global Health Training Center. Following panel at the launch of The Global Health Network's Global Health Research Process Map at the Wellcome Trust, London, UK. Published 14 August 2014
13. ↑ Ethics in epidemics, emergencies and disasters: research, surveillance and patient care Training manual. In Acknowledgements. Page 9 of 276
14. ↑ Latest news: Growing ethics capacity for implementation research. TDR news item, 3 March 2015
15. ↑ The Global Health Ethics Seminars Series (GHES), accessed 11/27/2017
16. ↑ Bioethics: Global Health Ethics Seminar 4 at Fiocruz, Brazil, 17 June 2016, accessed 11/27/2017
17. ↑ University of Toronto Bioethics Seminar: Ethics and the 2014 Ebola Outbreak. 17 September 2014, Toronto, Ontario
18. ↑ Casebook on Ethical Issues in International Health Research. World Health Organization, March 2009. pp. 1,3,4,10, 12
19. ↑ Genomics and World Health. pp. 9, 226
20. ↑ President Frenk Outlines Ethical Issues Related to Big Data at UM-WHO Conference. Inventum, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami. 16 October 2017
21. ↑ Growing ethics capacity for implementation research. TDR News Item. WHO, Tuesday 3 March 2015
22. ↑ Ethical issues in the development and implementation of nutrition-related public health policies and interventions: A scoping review. PLOS One 10th Anniversary issue. http://journals.plos.org. Thursday 26 October 2017. See NOTE on Abha Saxena, 3rd author. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0186897
23. ↑ Journal of Indian Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health, under Journal Ethics Committee for her and International Advisory Board for him
24. ↑ LinkedIn profile for Tanvi Saxena

## External links

* Global Health Ethics of the World Health Organization
* ResearchGate profile for Abha Saxena, MD, where most published articles can be downloaded.

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