Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra

Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra is Lecturer and Chancellor’s Fellow in Bioethics and Global Health Ethics at Edinburgh University School of Law. She is also a member of the Wellcome Trust-funded Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society, where she leads on the Centre themes 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 surrogacy, sex-selection, biomedical research, social value in research governance, global health emergencies, and the concepts of exploitation and vulnerability in bioethics. Her research interests include:

• 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

Her publications include:

• Ganguli-Mitra, A. (2021). Sex selection and global gender justice. Journal of Social Philosophy. https://doi.org/10.1111/josp.12405
• Ballantyne, A., & Ganguli-Mitra, A. (2021). To what extent are calls for greater minority representation in COVID vaccine research ethically justified? American Journal of Bioethics, 21(2), 99-101. https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2020.1861385
• De Togni, G., Boydell, N., Chan, S., Erikainen, S., Ford, A., Ganguli-Mitra, A., Lawrence, D., Montgomery, C., Pickersgill, M., Richards, R., Sethi, N., & Swallow, J. (2020). Imagining Life with “Immunity Passports”: Managing Risk during a Pandemic. Discover Society, Policy Press, 1-4. https://discoversociety.org/2020/06/01/imagining-life-with-immunity-passports-managing-risk-during-a-pandemic/

She welcomes expressions of interest in all areas of medical ethics/bioethics, global health ethics and justice.