Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra

Dr. Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra is a Senior Lecturer in Bioethics and Global Health Ethics at the University of Edinburgh School of Law. She serves as Deputy-director of the JK Mason Institute for Medicine, Life Sciences and the Law and is a member of the Wellcome Trust-supported Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society, where she co-leads the thematic strands Beyond Global and Beyond Sex. Her academic career spans multiple institutions across Europe, with a strong focus on ethical issues in global health contexts.

Dr. Ganguli-Mitra's research interests form a cohesive body of work centered on justice in bioethics. Her scholarship examines structural injustice, epistemic injustice, exploitation and vulnerability in bioethics, with particular attention to gender dimensions. She investigates the ethics of global health emergencies, feminist approaches in bioethics, sex-selection, surrogacy, social norms in bioethics, conscientious objection in healthcare, and the governance of biomedical research. Her work consistently bridges theoretical bioethics with practical applications in law and policy.

Analysis of her publications reveals a clear trajectory from foundational work on vulnerability and exploitation in globalized research contexts to more recent focus on pandemic ethics, racial justice in healthcare, and the social dimensions of health emergencies. Her scholarship demonstrates increasing engagement with intersectional approaches that connect gender justice, structural racism, and global health governance.

Dr. Ganguli-Mitra actively supervises PhD students and welcomes expressions of interest in medical ethics, bioethics, global health ethics and justice. Her research is supported by significant grants including a Wellcome Trust project on 'Medicine without Doctors: Reimagining Care and Voice through Play' (2025-2031) and a UK-based charities project on 'Vulnerability and justice in global health emergency regulation' (2018-2020).

She maintains active external engagement as a Member of the Board for Shakti Women's Aid since 2016 and participates in various collaborative networks focused on health research ethics and social justice. Her work connects the School of Law with broader health and social science communities through the Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society.