Vina Vaswani
Biographic Data
| ID | 6764030 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vina Vaswani |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vina |
| FAMILY NAME | Vaswani |
| SIGNATURE | VASWANI V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yenepoya University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8914-0795 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Vulnerability, Relocation and Resilience
Widowed women constitute a majority of India’s older female population. Increasing numbers seek shelter in institutional homes. This qualitative study examines the relocation of older widows into not-for-profit old age homes in India, focusing on their motivations for moving and on resilience practices they employ in the new environment. The research took place in Mangalore, Karnataka, involving in-depth interviews with 15 widows (aged 60 and abo…
Enhancing Research Ethics Capacity in Asia
Several Asian countries, including India, Malaysia, Myanmar, and Pakistan, face challenges aligning rapid healthcare and biomedical research growth with necessary ethics oversight. To help address this, the Fogarty International Center of the United States National Institutes of Health funded initiatives to enhance research ethics capacities in these countries. In India, the Yenepoya University's Master's in Research Ethics program was establishe…
Corpse identification in mass disasters and other violence
In October 2022, the Centre for Ethics of Yenepoya University hosted a national workshop entitled: "Respect for human dignity of the unidentified dead from mass disasters and other violence: strategies for the ethical management of biological samples and personal data". The aim was to explore and share experience and ethical considerations regarding the management and identification of human remains in the event of disasters, with the purpose to …
Informed consent for controlled human infection studies in low‐ and middle‐income countries
In controlled human infection studies (CHIs), participants are deliberately exposed to infectious agents in order to better understand the mechanism of infection or disease and test therapies or vaccines. While most CHIs have been conducted in high‐income countries, CHIs have recently been expanding into low‐ and middle‐income countries (LMICs). One potential ethical concern about this expansion is the challenge of obtaining the voluntary informe…
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Informed consent for controlled human infection studies in low‐ and middle‐income countries
In controlled human infection studies (CHIs), participants are deliberately exposed to infectious agents in order to better understand the mechanism of infection or disease and test therapies or vaccines. While most CHIs have been conducted in high‐income countries, CHIs have recently been expanding into low‐ and middle‐income countries (LMICs). One potential ethical concern about this expansion is the challenge of obtaining the voluntary informe…
Corpse identification in mass disasters and other violence
In October 2022, the Centre for Ethics of Yenepoya University hosted a national workshop entitled: "Respect for human dignity of the unidentified dead from mass disasters and other violence: strategies for the ethical management of biological samples and personal data". The aim was to explore and share experience and ethical considerations regarding the management and identification of human remains in the event of disasters, with the purpose to …
Enhancing Research Ethics Capacity in Asia
Several Asian countries, including India, Malaysia, Myanmar, and Pakistan, face challenges aligning rapid healthcare and biomedical research growth with necessary ethics oversight. To help address this, the Fogarty International Center of the United States National Institutes of Health funded initiatives to enhance research ethics capacities in these countries. In India, the Yenepoya University's Master's in Research Ethics program was establishe…
Vulnerability, Relocation and Resilience
Widowed women constitute a majority of India’s older female population. Increasing numbers seek shelter in institutional homes. This qualitative study examines the relocation of older widows into not-for-profit old age homes in India, focusing on their motivations for moving and on resilience practices they employ in the new environment. The research took place in Mangalore, Karnataka, involving in-depth interviews with 15 widows (aged 60 and abo…
Dignity (2 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Engineering ethics (2 works) · Ethics in Clinical Research (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Alternative medicine (1 works) · Argument (complex analysis (1 works) · Autopsy Techniques and Outcomes (1 works)