Our Team

Founding Team

Harleen Kaur Johal | Co-Founder
Harleen (she/her) is a resident doctor and NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow with interests in critical care, clinical ethics, and healthcare disparities. She is currently in the final year of her PhD at the Centre of Ethics in Medicine at the University of Bristol.
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Matimba Swana | Co-Founder
Matimba (she/her) previously worked in clinical trials with interests in public and global health, bioethics and digital health inequalities. She is currently doing her PhD at the Centre of Ethics in Medicine, Department of Engineering Mathematics and Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Node in Functionality at the University of Bristol.
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Kumeri Bandara | Co-Founder
Kumeri (she/her) is a postdoctoral researcher at the Ethox Centre, University of Oxford. She is trained as an anthropologist and her interests span feminist and decolonial approaches to bioethics, migration, and care. Kumeri is our ‘Better Bioethics’ liaison within the Postgraduate Bioethics Committee.
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Core Team

Vorathep (Dev) Sachdev | Programme Catalyst
Dev (he/him) is currently a PhD Candidate at the University of Edinburgh. His PhD project focuses on Thailand as a case study to improve biosafety and biosecurity governance in Southeast Asia, and it sits disciplinarily in the intersection of critical-socio-legal, scientific research and ethics. He enjoys playing sports, coaching football, reading, and films in his free time! He is currently working on the Global Bioethics Library and was on the BBB24 Scientific Committee.
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Faiq Habash  | Content Curator
Faiq Habash (he/him) is an independent researcher, historian, and linguist with experience in development, peace building, and geopolitics. His research focuses on refugees, education, and sectarianism, in addition to primary fieldwork investigation in conflict and humanitarian contexts. He produced and audio engineered the Power and Privilege podcast, was on the BBB24 Organising Committee and is the Inclusive Bioethics Video Series editor.
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Collaborators

As one of our key values is collaboration, we are delighted to work with and be supported by a range of organisations:

 

We have also been fortunate to collaborate with and receive support from the following individuals: