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{{Infobox philosopher
|name = Abha Saxena
|image = 2017-05-10 Abha Saxena at Children's Hospital Boston.jpg
| image_size = 200px
|caption = Abha Saxena at Children's Hospital Boston
|birth_name = Abha Saxena
|birth_date =
|birth_place = India
|death_date =
|death_place =
|region = Western Philosophy, International Philosophy, Global health ethics
|era = [[20th-century philosophy]], [[21st-century philosophy]]
|school_tradition = [[Ethical philosophy]]
|main_interests = {{hlist| [[Ethics]] | [[Justice]] | Politics | [[Public health]] | [[Medical ethics]] |
[[global health]] | [[population health]] | health ethics }}
|notable_ideas =
|influences =
| alma_mater = [[All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi|All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi, India]] (AIIMS)
| institutions =
:[[All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi|All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi, India]] (AIIMS)
:[[World Health Organization]]
''As faculty member''
:[[All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi|All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi, India]] (AIIMS)
|awards =
}}

'''Abha Saxena''' is the Coordinator of the Global Health Ethics Unit of the [[World Health Organization]] in [[Geneva, Switzerland]]. In that role, she chairs the Research Ethics Review Committee and leads the Department of Ethics and Social Determinants (ESD) of WHO. She is married to WHO-based [[psychiatrist]] [[Shekhar Saxena]].<ref>[https://www.who.int/tdr/news/2015/ethics-capacity-for-ir/en/ Growing ethics capacity for implementation research. WHO. TDR news item. 3 March 2015]</ref> Much of her work involves advising [[low and middle income countries]] about the ethics of resource allocation in addressing [[Vector (epidemiology)|vector-borne diseases]], [[aging]], and other current medical and public health issues.

==Education==
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* MD, anaesthesiology - [[All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi|All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi, India]] (AIIMS).
* Medical residency - [[All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi|All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi, India]] (AIIMS).

==Career==
Saxena was educated and trained in India as an anaesthesiologist.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/living/story/19931031-counselling-new-medical-techniques-give-cancer-patients-better-chance-of-survival-811729-1993-10-31 | title=Counselling, new medical techniques give cancer patients better chance of survival | publisher=India Today | date=31 October 1993 | first=Ramesh | last=Menon | accessdate=2 October 2018 }}</ref> For twenty years she practiced medicine actively in hospital and community-based research in India. She also was a faculty member and Professor at the [[All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi|All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India]] (AIIMS),<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://site2corp.com/in/abha-saxena-1/news |title=Site2Corp profile for Abha Saxena, MD, of India - conflates with a different Abha Saxena, MD, a nephrologist at UnityPoint Village Diabetes and Kidney Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in the USA |access-date=28 November 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201031052/https://site2corp.com/in/abha-saxena-1/news |archive-date=1 December 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>[http://time.com/3104174/who-gets-the-experimental-ebola-drugs/ Who Gets the Experimental Ebola Drugs? Time, Tuesday 12 August 2014, accessed 11/27/2017]</ref> which was founded in 1956.<ref>[[All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi]]</ref>

In 2001, she joined the [[World Health Organization]] in [[Geneva, Switzerland]], where her husband, [[Shekhar Saxena]], is also employed as the Director of the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse (MSD). Since 2002, Saxena has been managing the WHO Research Ethics Review Committee. At WHO, she conducts short training programs in research ethics not only for WHO staff, but also in several African and Asian countries, using many of the case studies that were included in the ''Casebook on Ethical Issues in International Health Research'',<ref>[[Richard A. Cash|Cash, R]], [[Dan Wikler|Wikler, D]], Saxena, A., Capron, A. <u>[https://www.who.int/entity/ethics/publications/9789241547727/en/index.html Casebook on Ethical Issues in International Health Research]</u>, Geneva: [[World Health Organization]], 2009, 2010. Translated into five languages, including [http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/44118/17/9789290219576_ara.pdf?ua=1 Arabic], Chinese, [https://www.who.int/entity/ethics/publications/9789241547727/en/index.html English], French, [http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/44118/2/9789244547724_rus.pdf?ua=1 Russian], and [http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/112752/1/9789275318195_spa.pdf?ua=1 Spanish]. {{ISBN|9789241547727}}; second edition forthcoming. {{ISBN|978 92 4 154772 7}} (NLM classification: W 20.5).</ref> which has been translated into at least five languages. She is now Director and Coordinator of WHO's Global Health Ethics Unit.<ref>[https://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/95/11/16-187609/en/ Venkatapuram, S., Ehni, H-J, Saxena, A. Equity and healthy ageing. Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 2017;95:791-792. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.2471/BLT.16.187609 18 September 2017]</ref><ref>[https://www.who.int/ethics/en/ Global health ethics: WHO releases ethics guidance for public health surveillance. (inset video) 26 June 2017]</ref><ref>[https://www.globalsummit-berlin2016.de/documents-and-links/ReportofInternationalOrganizationsGHEReport.pdf Global Health Ethics – World Health Organization. PowerPoint Talk by Abha Saxena, MD, Global Summit-Berlin 2016]</ref>
<ref>[http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/164576/1/9789240694033_eng.pdf Global Health Ethics Key issues]. Global Network of WHO Collaborating Centres for Bioethics. World Health Organization 2015. p. 5 (top) {{ISBN|978 92 4 069403 3}} (PDF). {{ISBN|978 92 4 154911 0}}</ref><ref>[https://ai.xprize.org/AI-For-Good/summit-schedule AI for Good Summit Schedule, Day 2, 8 June 2017]</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn3G3YVpXBw Dr Abha Saxena, Coordinator, Global Health Ethics, World Health Organization, 8 July 2014, TGHN Global Health Training Center. Following panel at the launch of The Global Health Network's Global Health Research Process Map at the Wellcome Trust, London, UK. Published 14 August 2014]</ref><ref>[http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/196326/1/9789241549349_eng.pdf?ua=1&ua=1 Ethics in epidemics, emergencies and disasters: research, surveillance and patient care Training manual. In Acknowledgements. Page 9 of 276]</ref><ref>[https://www.who.int/tdr/news/2015/ethics-capacity-for-ir/en/ Latest news: Growing ethics capacity for implementation research. TDR news item, 3 March 2015]</ref><ref>[https://www.who.int/ethics/partnerships/seminars/en/ The Global Health Ethics Seminars Series (GHES), accessed 11/27/2017]</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1K25t7YzgI&list=PL5N1OE0C5oo3SBEb6mM0h5yobtQu82kxr Bioethics: Global Health Ethics Seminar 4 at Fiocruz, Brazil, 17 June 2016, accessed 11/27/2017]</ref><ref>[http://jcb.utoronto.ca/tools/documents/2014/jcb_seminar_17Sep2014.pdf University of Toronto Bioethics Seminar: Ethics and the 2014 Ebola Outbreak. 17 September 2014, Toronto, Ontario]</ref><ref>[https://extranet.who.int/eauthoring/GetImageFile.aspx?id=4531 Casebook on Ethical Issues in International Health Research. World Health Organization, March 2009. pp. 1,3,4,10, 12]</ref><ref>[https://www.who.int/rpc/genomics_report.pdf Genomics and World Health. pp. 9, 226]</ref><ref>[https://physician-news.umiamihealth.org/president-frenk-outlines-ethical-issues-related-to-big-data-at-um-who-conference/ President Frenk Outlines Ethical Issues Related to Big Data at UM-WHO Conference. Inventum, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami. 16 October 2017]</ref><ref>[https://www.who.int/tdr/news/2015/ethics-capacity-for-ir/en/ Growing ethics capacity for implementation research. TDR News Item. WHO, Tuesday 3 March 2015]</ref><ref>[http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0186897 Ethical issues in the development and implementation of nutrition-related public health policies and interventions: A scoping review. PLOS One 10th Anniversary issue. http://journals.plos.org. Thursday 26 October 2017. See NOTE on Abha Saxena, 3rd author. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0186897]</ref>

==Personal life==
Saxena is married to [[Shekhar Saxena]], also of the [[World Health Organization]],<ref>[https://www.jiacam.org/editors1.html Journal of Indian Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health, under Journal Ethics Committee for her and International Advisory Board for him]</ref> and together they live in [[Geneva, Switzerland]]. They have two adult daughters.<ref>[https://www.linkedin.com/in/tanvi-saxena-327b0580/ LinkedIn profile for Tanvi Saxena]</ref>{{better source|date=June 2018}}

==Select publications==
* [[Richard A. Cash|Cash, R]], [[Dan Wikler|Wikler, D]], Saxena, A., Capron, A. <u>[https://www.who.int/entity/ethics/publications/9789241547727/en/index.html Casebook on Ethical Issues in International Health Research]</u>, Geneva: [[World Health Organization]], 2009, 2010. Translated into five languages, including [http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/44118/17/9789290219576_ara.pdf?ua=1 Arabic], Chinese, [https://www.who.int/entity/ethics/publications/9789241547727/en/index.html English], French, [http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/44118/2/9789244547724_rus.pdf?ua=1 Russian], and [http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/112752/1/9789275318195_spa.pdf?ua=1 Spanish]. {{ISBN|9789241547727}}; second edition forthcoming. {{ISBN|978 92 4 154772 7}} (NLM classification: W 20.5).
* Saxena, A, Gomes, M. [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/290598353_Ethical_challenges_to_responding_to_the_Ebola_epidemic_The_World_Health_Organization_experience Ethical challenges to responding to the Ebola epidemic: The World Health Organization experience]. ''Clinical Trials'' 2006 (January):13(1). {{doi|10.1177/1740774515621870}}.

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://www.who.int/ethics/en/ Global Health Ethics of the World Health Organization]
* [https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Abha_Saxena2 ResearchGate profile for Abha Saxena, MD], where most published articles can be downloaded.

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