Faculty & Staff
Dr. Manjulika Vaz
Associate Professor- Division of Health & Humanities
Languages
English, Hindi, Kannada
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A social scientist with qualitative research experience in bioethics, public perceptions, public engagement and science-society interfaces.
Qualification/ Education
- PhD, Allied Health Sciences (Ethics of Biobanking Research and Public Perceptions)
Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Bengaluru | 2019 - Masters, Medical & Psychiatric Social Work | 1994
Tata Institute of Social Sciences - BSc, Microbiology, Biochemistry and Zoology | 1991
St. Joseph’s College of Arts & Sciences, Bangalore University
Experience
- Associate Professor- St John’s Research Institute, St John’s National Academy of Health Sciences, Bangalore | 2025- present
- Asst Professor- St John’s Research Institute, St John’s National Academy of Health Sciences, Bangalore | 2024-2025
- Lecturer, Division of Health and Humanities- St. John’s Research Institute, St John’s National Academy of Health Sciences, Bangalore | 2012- 2024
- Associate Curator, History of Medicine Museum- St John’s Medical College, CBCI Society for Medical Education, Bengaluru | 2023- present
- Adjunct Faculty, Public Health Ethics- Society for Community Health Awareness, Research and Action (SOCHARA), Bangalore and Martin Luther Christian University (MLCU), Shillong 2023- present
- Adjunct Faculty- Manipal Academy of Higher Education | 2022- present
- External Professor - CMR Institute of Management | 2011-2013
- Independent Consultant- NGOs such as CHF International, Development Focus, Mel Jol, Mumbai, Child Rights Trust, Mahila Samakhya Karnataka, SATHI (Society for Assistance to Children in Difficult Situations), ATREE (Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment), ADD India, ICICI Centre for Elementary Education, National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Centre for Education and Documentation (CED) and CIVIC Bangalore | 2002- 2012
- Researcher- Trainer-Consultant- The P & P Group, Bangalore | 1997- 2002
- Social Scientist- Development Alternatives, Bangalore | 1995- 1997
- Research Executive- Probe Qualitative Research, Indian Market Research Bureau, Mumbai | 1994- 1995
Areas of interest
Promoting the humanities in medical education; Environmental consciousness and environmental ethics; Qualitative research methods of enquiry; Gender rights and inclusiveness; Public engagement in research and governance
Fellowship & Membership
- Member – SHADE (Sustainability, Health, AI, Digital technologies and the Environment) Research Hub, King’s College, London. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/shade-research-hub
- Member - Environmentally Sustainable HeAlth REsearch (SHARE) https://www.ethox.ox.ac.uk/Our-research/research-projects/from-2018tool-solutionism2019-to-a-context-sensitive-just-systems-focused-and-reflexive-approach
- Institutional Ethics Committee member- National Centre for Disease Informatics and Research, ICMR | September 2015- November 2019
- Chairperson Institutional Ethics Committee- SOCHARA – Institutional Scientific and Ethics Committee (SISEC) | August 2014- present
- Human Research Protection Program Board Member- St. John’s National Academy of Health Sciences | December 2013- January 2018
- Institutional Ethics Committee member- St. John’s National Academy of Health Sciences | February 2007- present
- Trustee – CIVIC (Citizens Voluntary Initiative for the City) Bangalore
- Editorial Board member – Indian Journal of Medical Ethics
- Associate Professor- St John’s Research Institute, St John’s National Academy of Health Sciences, Bangalore | 2025- present
- Asst Professor- St John’s Research Institute, St John’s National Academy of Health Sciences, Bangalore | 2024-2025
- Lecturer, Division of Health and Humanities- St. John’s Research Institute, St John’s National Academy of Health Sciences, Bangalore | 2012- 2024
- Associate Curator, History of Medicine Museum- St John’s Medical College, CBCI Society for Medical Education, Bengaluru | 2023- present
- Adjunct Faculty, Public Health Ethics- Society for Community Health Awareness, Research and Action (SOCHARA), Bangalore and Martin Luther Christian University (MLCU), Shillong 2023- present
- Adjunct Faculty- Manipal Academy of Higher Education | 2022- present
- External Professor - CMR Institute of Management | 2011-2013
- Independent Consultant- NGOs such as CHF International, Development Focus, Mel Jol, Mumbai, Child Rights Trust, Mahila Samakhya Karnataka, SATHI (Society for Assistance to Children in Difficult Situations), ATREE (Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment), ADD India, ICICI Centre for Elementary Education, National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Centre for Education and Documentation (CED) and CIVIC Bangalore | 2002- 2012
- Researcher- Trainer-Consultant- The P & P Group, Bangalore | 1997- 2002
- Social Scientist- Development Alternatives, Bangalore | 1995- 1997
- Research Executive- Probe Qualitative Research, Indian Market Research Bureau, Mumbai | 1994- 1995
Promoting the humanities in medical education; Environmental consciousness and environmental ethics; Qualitative research methods of enquiry; Gender rights and inclusiveness; Public engagement in research and governance
No groups and associations specified.
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'Life after Death - the Dead shall Teach the Living': a Qualitative Study on the Motivations and Expectations of Body Donors, their Families, and Religious Scholars in the South Indian City of Bangalore
Sasi A, Hegde R, Dayal S, Vaz M. The making of a “Citizen Doctor”: How effective are value-based classes?
HEGDE, R., VAZ, M. The Eternal Grove – A garden of remembrance
VAZ , M., VAZ , M The Parallel Arts Festival at the 14th World Congress of Bioethics and the 7th National Bioethics Conference, Bengaluru
VAZ, M., TIMMS, O., HEGDE, R., VAZ, M The views of ethics committee members and medical researchers on the return of individual research results and incidental findings, ownership issues and benefit sharing in biobanking research in a South Indian city
Vaz M, Vaz M, K S. Health for all in an unequal world: Obligations of global bioethics
BANDEWAR, S., CHAUDHURI, L., DUGGAL, L., RAVINDRAN, G., NARAYAN, T., N, S., KURPAD, S., VAZ, M., VENKATACHALAM, D No Others Contributions details available.