Sadhana Joshi is a Distinguished Professor and Head, Mother and Child Health Division in Interactive Research School for Health Affairs (IRSHA) of Bharati Vidyapeeth (Deemed to be University), Pune. She has been working tirelessly in the field of maternal nutrition for close to 30 years. Her lab currently works on preeclampsia, a kind of hypertension in pregnant women that has dire effects on maternal and fetal health if not taken care of in due time.

In this next article in our series on research ethics, Anant Bhan, bioethicist and global health & policy researcher, speaks to IndiaBioscience about the landscape of clinical trial malpractice in India and the need for pharmacovigilance, which is the science of monitoring, evaluating and understanding adverse effects associated with drugs and medical devices even after they have been released into the mass market.

Sumedh Kaulgud, co-founder of Sattva MedTech talks about making an ECG-based device for monitoring fetal heart rate.

Nitin Sisodia, founder of Sohum Innovation Labs talks about building a company that hopes to make hearing screening available to every newborn in India.

Doctor-innovator, Jagdish Chaturvedi talks about strategies that can push forward innovation in medical technology.