Abha Saxena
| Abha Saxena, MD | |
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Abha Saxena, MD, at Children's Hospital Boston | |
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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 |
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Abha Saxena, MD, 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 current 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.
Education
- MD, anaesthesiology - All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi, India (AIIMS).
- Medical residency - All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi, India (AIIMS).
Career
Dr. Saxena was educated and trained in India as an anaesthesiologist. She was actively engaged as a medical practitioner for 20 years 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), which was founded in 1956.
In 2001, she joined the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, where her husband, Shekhar Saxena, is also employed. Since 2002, Abha Saxena, MD, has been managing the WHO Research Ethics Review Committee. At WHO, in addition to running a dynamic research ethics committee, she conducts short training programmes 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. She is now Director of WHO's Global Health Ethics Unit.
Personal life
Dr. Abha Saxena is married to Dr. Shekhar Saxena, also of the World Health Organization, and together they live in Geneva, Switzerland. They have two adult daughters.
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
External links
- Global Health Ethics of the World Health Organization
- ResearchGate profile for Abha Saxena, MD, where most published articles can be downloaded.