Contributors
- Contributors
Fatima Castillo is Professor of Politics and Social Research at the University of the Philippines. She is a member of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee of Tropical Disease Research of WHO and the Technical Review Board of the Philippines National Institutes for Health. Prof Castillo is also a gender specialist on an international project that seeks to develop a global system for incentivising the private sector to invest in drug development for neglected diseases. She was formerly on the faculty of the International Bioethics Training Program, a joint Philippines-USA initiative.
Alvin Chew Kian-Sian is presently a full time student and doctoral candidate at the National University of Singapore's Centre for Biomedical Ethics (CBmE). His current interests are in the ethics of reproductive technologies and Aristotelian virtue ethics. Prior to his studies, he was working for the Secretariat of the Bioethics Advisory Committee, Singapore.
Jacqueline Chin Joon Lin is Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore's Centre for Biomedical Ethics (CBmE). Dr Chin has research interests in clinical ethics, end of life issues and women's issues.
Godofreda V. Dalmacion is Assistant Chair of the Department of Clinical Epidemiology at the College of Medicine, University of the Philippines. She is also Chair of the Adverse Event Committee at the University of the Philippines National Institutes of Health Ethics Committee.
Aaron D. Levine is Assistant Professor in the School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research explores the intersection between bioethics and public policy. Dr Levine is the author of Cloning: A Beginner's Guide (Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2007).
Neha Madhiwala is Co-ordinator of the Centre for Studies in Ethics and Rights, a research and training institute. She is an editorial board member of the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics, and her research areas include reproductive health, ethics in social science research, and gender and ethics. She is also the member of the Institutional Ethics Committee of Anusandhan Trust, which was the first ethics committee instituted in a social science research organisation in India.
Rosalinda Pineda Ofreneo is Professor and Head of the Department of Women and Development Studies (DWDS), College of Social Work and Community Development, University of the Philippines. She is the author of a number of books including Women and Work (Quezon City: UP Open University, 2005). Prof Ofreneo is active in many organisations involving rights for women as well as those forced into the informal income sector.
Vibhuti Patel is Professor and Head of the University Department of Economics, and Director of the Department of Post Graduate Studies and Research at the SNDT Women's University, Mumbai. She was also visiting faculty at the Development Studies Institute of the London School of Economics. Dr Patel is the author of Women's Challenges of the New Millennium (New Delhi: Gyan Pub. House, 2002); co-author of Indian Women — Change and Challenge (Bombay: Popular Prakashan, 1985) and Reaching for Half the Sky (Baroda: Antar Rashtriya Prakashan, 1985); and co-editor of Macro Economic Policies and the Millennium Development Goals (New Delhi: Gyan Pub. House, 2007) and a series of seven volumes on Empowering Women Worldwide (Delhi: The Women Press, 2008).
Bernard Prusak is Gallen Fellow in the Humanities at Villanova Center for Liberal Education, Villanova University, where he teaches ethics and great books. His research is focused on parental obligations, the intersections of philosophical anthropology and bioethics, and moral epistemology. He is writing a book with the working title Parenting and the Obligations of Justice and Virtue toward Children.
Marita V.T. Reyes has recently retired as Professor of Biochemistry at the College of Medicine, University of the Philippines, where she obtained her medical degree in 1964. Prof Reynes served as Dean from 1988 to 1991, and in 2002, she was appointed Chancellor of the University. She currently chairs the National Ethics Committee and the Philippine Health Research Ethics Board.
Maya Unnithan is Reader in Social Anthropology at the University of Sussex in the UK. Dr Unnithan's current research interests are in the anthropology of reproduction, health, gender and development. Her publications include several books including the edited volume, Reproductive Agency, Medicine and the State (Oxford and...
