Sunita Sheel Bandewar

Sunita Sheel Bandewar is a Post Doctoral Fellow on the Ethical, Social, and Cultural (ESC) Program for Grand Challenges in Global Health and Research Coordinator for the Community Engagement Global Case Study Research.   Research that involves empirical research at about 10 different sites around the world to study ‘good practices’ in community engagement in the context of clinical research and public health interventions. Sunita has a MSc and PhD in Anthropology from the  University of Pune, India and bioethics MHSc – Bioethics, University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics, Toronto, Canada. Some of her core areas of work include gender, women and health, social science research ethics, ethics review system, and counseling ethics. Her core activities have been research and advocacy in health in India. She is member of the International Research Ethics Board, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF).