Dr Agomoni Ganguli Mitra

Senior Lecturer in Bioethics and Global Health Ethics

Deputy Director of Mason Institute for Medicine, Life Science and the Law

Office hours:

By appointment

Tel: 0131 650 2028

Email: Agomoni.Ganguli-Mitra@ed.ac.uk

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Dr. Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra is Senior Lecturer in Bioethics and Global Health Ethics, and Deputy-director of the JK Mason Institute for Medicine, Life Sciences and the Law. She is also a member of the Wellcome Trust-supported Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society (where she co-leads the thematic strands Beyond Global and Beyond Sex). Dr. Ganguli-Mitra’s background is in bioethics, with a special interest in global bioethics, structural and gender justice. She has written on ethical issues related to global health emergencies, public health, global surrogacy, sex-selection, biomedical research, racism in health and the concepts of exploitation vulnerability and power in bioethics.

Ph.D. supervision interests
Dr. Ganguli-Mitra welcomes expressions of interest in all areas of medical ethics/bioethics, global health ethics and justice.

Current Research Interests

• Global bioethics and justice in global health
• Structural injustice, epistemic injustice, exploitation and vulnerability in bioethics
• The ethics of global health emergencies
• Surrogacy and gender justice
• Social norms in bioethics
• Sex-selection and gender justice
• Conscientious objection in healthcare
• Ethics and governance of biomedical research
• Public health ethics
• Bioethics and Law