Organizational Structures

Institutional Ethics Committee (IEC)

Institutional ethics committee at Anusandhan Trust is a multi-disciplinary independent body which reviews all its research activities as defined in the Standard Operating Procedure. The IEC’s panel of external and internal members are selected by trustees of Anusandhan Trust based on their expertise and scientific knowledge. AT-IEC is provisionally registered with National Ethics Committee Registry for Biomedical and Health Research, Department of Health Research – EC/NEW/IND/2023/MH/0339

The IEC-AT can be contacted via email at iec@cehat.org or the phone on +91 915 24 41949

• Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
• Action Research – Application Form
• Research Project – Application Form

External Members

1) Dr. Anant Bhan – Dr. Bhan is a researcher in global health, health policy and bioethics with 18+ years of experience and numerous publications. A medical graduate and a Master’s in Bioethics from the University of Toronto, Canada, Dr. Bhan currently works with Sangath at its Bhopal Hub.

2) Dr. Surinder Jaswal – Dr. Jaswal is currently the Deputy Director (Research) at Tata Institute of Social Sciences and holds a doctorate degree in Public Health from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London. Her research interests include social work education, public health, public mental health, disaster studies and social science research.

3) Dr. Nilangi Sardeshpande – Dr Sardeshpande holds a doctorate from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai and works as an independent health researcher. Her research interests include health equity, nutrition, women’s access to healthcare, and health budgets.

4) Ms. Anubha Rastogi – Ms. Rastogi is an independent lawyer. She has a vast legal and human rights background with 16 years’ experience in providing survivors of human rights violations access to justice with a special focus on women’s rights.

5) Ms. Kajal Jain – Ms. Jain is working as a Programme Coordinator at Masum, Pune, Maharashtra. She has over 14 years of experience in the development sector in programme development, management and coordination, strategy development, multiple task management, monitoring and evaluation, facilitation of community led processes.

Secretariat

1) Dr. Sanjida Arora (Member Secretary), Senior Research Officer, CEHAT, Mumbai – A trained dentist with Masters in Public Health from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. She has 11 years of experience of working on women’s health issues at CEHAT.

2) Shweta Marathe (Member Secretary), Senior Research Coordinator, Sathi, Pune – a Health Systems researcher with an academic background in hospital and healthcare management. With a decade-long experience in SATHI, she is keen to undertake action-oriented research that actively supports advocacy efforts for a better health system.

Internal Committee of Anusandhan Trust

Anusandhan trust has implemented “The Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, prohibition and redressal) POSH Act, 2013”, at their centres. We believe that all employees have the right to be treated with dignity and hence it treats Sexual Harassment at workplace as a gross misconduct. Internal Committee has been constituted to tackling complaints of sexual harassment promptly, impartially, sensitively and confidentially