Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra

Senior Lecturer

Biography

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 co-leads the Beyond Global and Beyond Sex themes at Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society. Agomoni’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. 

Research

• Global bioethics and justice in global health 

• Anti-racist and anti-colonial approaches to bioethics 

• 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 

Teaching

• Intercalated BMedSci, Fundamentals in Bioethics, Lecturer
• LLM, Medical Law and Ethics, Lecturer
• Master of Public Health, Public Health Ethics, Lecturer