Dr Manjulika Vaz
Senior Lecturer in the Division of Health and Humanities, St John's Research Institute, Bangalore, India
- Founder Member of SHADE
Biography
Manjulika brings her experience in bioethics, in relation to new and emerging technologies, to the SHADE Centre. She also brings a keen interest in getting the voice of the voiceless heard and influencing ethical guidelines so that we are not just blindly adopting global guidelines, but looking at local context and seeing that local problems and local concerns are addressed (through national guidelines in the area of health research, healthcare, and biomedical science).
As part of SHADE, Manjulika's current research is exploring a socio-political-cultural understanding of e-waste management and applying an ethical lens to inequities, social justice, and harms and health risks. More generally Manjulika wants to gain a better understanding of environmental sustainability and digital health. She also wants to establish how India could learn from other countries, and how suitable policies could be introduced or modified.
Further details
Research
SHADE Research Hub
SHADE sits at the intersection of Sustainability, Health, AI, Digital technologies and the Environment. SHADE is guided by a fundamental question: How should the balance between AI/digital enabled health and planetary health be struck in different areas of the world, and what should be the guiding principles? To address this SHADE promotes interdisciplinary enquiry to understand and make visible sustainable practices situated in specific geographical and societal contexts. Undertaking both normative and solutions based research, SHADE draws on empirical, epistemic and ethical perspectives from philosophy, law, sociology and ethics, as well as from more quantitative approaches such as life cycle sustainability assessment.
Environmentally Sustainable HeAlth REsearch (SHARE): from ‘tool solutionism’ to a context sensitive, just, systems-focused and reflexive approach
Project investigating wider meanings of environment, sustainability and climate-related discourses in different contexts and countries within health research.
Project status: Starting
Research
SHADE Research Hub
SHADE sits at the intersection of Sustainability, Health, AI, Digital technologies and the Environment. SHADE is guided by a fundamental question: How should the balance between AI/digital enabled health and planetary health be struck in different areas of the world, and what should be the guiding principles? To address this SHADE promotes interdisciplinary enquiry to understand and make visible sustainable practices situated in specific geographical and societal contexts. Undertaking both normative and solutions based research, SHADE draws on empirical, epistemic and ethical perspectives from philosophy, law, sociology and ethics, as well as from more quantitative approaches such as life cycle sustainability assessment.
Environmentally Sustainable HeAlth REsearch (SHARE): from ‘tool solutionism’ to a context sensitive, just, systems-focused and reflexive approach
Project investigating wider meanings of environment, sustainability and climate-related discourses in different contexts and countries within health research.
Project status: Starting