Editorial Board

Senior Editor

Anastasia Widyadari, PhD, Springer Nature, UK
Anastasia joined BMC in May 2022. She holds a PhD in Medicine from University of Leeds where she studied the role of DOCK4 in glioblastoma, and the pathological effects of radiotherapy on the vasculature of recurrent glioblastoma. Previously, she earned her BSc (Hons) degree in Biomedical Sciences from the University of Brighton. In 2016, Anastasia worked at the Eijkman Institute of Molecular Biology in Jakarta, Indonesia, studying the genetics of obesity. She is committed to championing open access and reproducible research in science. 
Anastasia is based in the London office and is the editor of BMC Medical Ethics, BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies, BMC Pharmacology and Toxicology, and BMC Proceedings.


Senior Editorial Board Members

John Noel Viana, PhD, The Australian National University, Australia
John Noel Viana is a research fellow at the Justice and Technoscience Laboratory (JusTech) at the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) at the Australian National University. His current work aims to develop an anti-racist neuroethics framework to promote epistemic justice in brain and mental health research. He has a PhD in Bioethics/Society and Culture from the University of Tasmania, where he investigated ethical, legal, and societal issues in clinical trials of invasive neurosurgical procedures for people with Alzheimer's disease. He has also worked on other bioethical topics, such as media portrayals of novel technologies, application of new neuroimaging modalities, and patient experience and perception of neurotherapeutic interventions. In addition to his bioethics, social studies of science, and science communication training during his PhD and postdoc, Dr. Viana also has a master’s in neurosciences and a bachelor’s in molecular biology. Furthermore, he is an active member of the Engagement and Outreach Committee of the International Neuroethics Society. 

Primus Chi, PhD, KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kenya
Primus C. Chi, MPH, PhD is a bioethicist and health systems researcher with over 14 years of experience in leading and supporting research and capacity building programmes and projects across Africa and Europe. He currently serves as mid-level social scientist/ethicist at the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kenya, where he leads a portfolio of embedded social science and empirical ethics research on controlled human infection model studies, social and structural drivers of vaccination impact among vulnerable African populations and vaccine donations in the context of epidemics and pandemics. Prior to joining the KWTRP in 2018, he served as postdoctoral researcher at the WHO Collaborating Centre for Research on Health Care in Disasters at Karolinska Institute, Stockholm (Sweden) and doctoral researcher at the Peace Research Institute Oslo, Oslo (Norway). He is a member of several local, national and international bioethics initiatives, including the and Global Health Bioethics Network (GHBN), Bioethics Society of Kenya (BSK), and Cameroon Bioethics Initiative (CAMBIN), where he served as chair of the CAMBIN research ethics committee for over 7 years. His research interests lie at the intersection of embedded social science approaches, vulnerabilities to vaccine impact, and ethics and governance of new and emerging technologies.


Assistant Editors
Anuj Kankariya, MSc, BSc, Springer Nature, India
Ashif Mujawar, MSc, BSc, Springer Nature, India

Manuscript Editors
Akshay Ravindra Joshi, PhD, MPhil, MSc, BSc, Springer Nature, India
Gayatri Kanade, PhD, MSc, BSc, Springer Nature, India
Neha Tiwari, PhD, M.Tech, B.Tech, Springer Nature, India
Noohi Nasim, PhD, Springer Nature, India
Rajasree K P, PhD, MSc, BSc, Springer Nature, India
Pranitha Pandit, PhD, MPhil, MSc, BSc, Springer Nature, India
Pratibha Verma, PhD, MSc, BSc, Springer Nature, India
Pravin Giri, PhD, MSc, Bsc, Springer Nature, India
Priya Sharma, PhD, MSc, BSc, Springer Nature, India
Raunaq Singh Nagi, PhD, MSc, BSc, Springer Nature, India
Swayamsidha Pati, PhD, MSc, BSc, Springer Nature, India
Varsha Shetty, PhD, Springer Nature, India

Editorial Board Members
Ghiath Alahmad, MD, PhD, King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, Saudi Arabia
Gabriel Andrade, PhD, Ajman University, United Arab Emirates
Caesar Atuire, PhD, University of Oxford, UK
Marieke Bak, PhD, Institute for History and Ethics of Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Matthias Braun, PhD, University of Bonn, Germany
Claudia Bozzaro, Albert-Ludwigs-University, Germany
Luís Cordeiro-Rodrigues, PhD, Hunan University, China
Adam La Caze, PhD, The University of Queensland, Australia
Laura Leondina Campanozzi, PhD, Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome, Italy
Steven S Coughlin, PhD, Augusta University, USA
Lisa Dive, PhD, MPhil, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Janet Delgado, PhD, Yamaguchi University, Japan
Mariana Dittborn, MSc, Bioethics Centre, Universida del Desarrollo, Chile
Nathan Emmerich, BA, MA, MRes, PhD, Queen's University Belfast, UK
Nanette Elster, JD, MPH, Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics, Loyola University Chicago, Stritch School of Medicine, USA
Sophia Fantus, PhD, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Cynthia Forlini, PhD, The University of Sydney, Australia
Mohammed Ghaly, PhD, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar
Simona Giordano, Dr. phil., University of Manchester, UK
Alessandra Agnese Grossi, MSc, MAS, PhD, University of Insubria, Italy
Casey Haining, BBiomed (Hons), JD, University of Melbourne; Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Joschka Haltaufderheide, Dr. phil, University of Potsdam, Germany
Muhammad Hammami, Loma Linda University, USA
Benjamín Herreros, MD PhD, Complutense University, Spain
Ruth Horn, PhD, University of Augsburg, Germany
Marcello Ienca, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Fabrice Jotterand, PhD, MA, Medical College of Wisconsin, USA
Niklas Juth, Dr. phil., Karolinska institutet, Sweden
Genevieve Kanter, PhD, University of Southern California, USA
Brent Kious, MD, PhD, University of Utah, USA
Laura Kimberly, PhD, MSW, MBE, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, USA
Piroska Kopar, MD, MBA, Washington University in Saint Louis, USA
Kristin Kostick-Quenet, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine, USA
Zohar Lederman, MD, PhD, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Jonathan Lewis, Dublin City University, Ireland
Fernando Lolas, MD, University of Chile, Chile
Federica Lucivero, PhD, University of Oxford, UK
Yonghui Ma, PhD, Xiamen University, China
Alessia Maccaro, University of Warwick, Italy
Andrea Martani, PhD, Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel, Switzerland
Jonathan Marron, MD, MPH, Harvard Medical School, USA
Deborah Mascalzoni, PhD, Uppsala University, Sweden
Kenji Matsui, MD, PhD, National Cancer Center Japan, Japan
Signe Mežinska, PhD, University of Latvia, Latvia
Nchangwi Munung, PhD, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Adetayo Emmanuel Obasa, PhD, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Anke Oerlemans, PhD, University of Birmingham, UK
Ludovica De Panfilis, PhD, Azienda USL-IRCCS di Reggio Emilia, Italy
Michiel De Proost, Doctorate, Ghent University, Belgiu
Aasim Padela, MD, The University of Chicago, USA
Rafael Pimentel, BSN, RN, PhD, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Bridgett Pratt, PhD, University of Melbourne, Australia
Davide Piaggio, PhD, University of Warwick, UK
Nadia Primc, PhD, Institute of History and Ethics of Medicine, Germany
Robert Ranisch, Dr., University of Potsdam , Germany
Joona Räsänen, PhD, University of Turku, Finland
Pietro Refolo, PhD, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy
Giovanna Ricci, PhD, University of Camerino, Italy
Cristina Richie, PhD, TU Delft, Netherlands
Jon Rueda, PhD, University of Granada, Spain
Lars Sandman, University of Borås, Sweden
Jan Schildmann, MD, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
Bjoern Schmitz-Luhn, JD, PhD, Atty-at-Law, Bonn University, Germany
Matthé Scholten, PhD, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
Anna-Henrikje Seidlein, Dr, University Medicine Greifswald, Germany
Seppe Segers, PhD, Bioethics Institute Ghent (Ghent University), Belgium
Kadri Simm, PhD, University of Tartu, Estonia
Daniel Sperling, SJD, University of Haifa, Israel
Georg Starke, MD., PhD, Institute for History and Ethics of Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Florian Steger, Dr. med., Ulm University, Institute of the History, Philosophy and Ethics of Medicine, Germany
Xavier Symons, PhD, The Australian Catholic University, Australia
Donrich Thaldar, PhD, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Cristian Timmermann, PhD, University of Augsburg , Germany
Bev Townsend, PhD, University of York, UK
Manuel Trachsel, MD, PhD, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Luca Valera, PhD, University of Valladolid, Spain
Polychronis Voultsos, Associate Professor, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (School of Medicine), Greece
Keiichiro Yamamoto, PhD, The National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Japan
MIchael Young, MD, MPhil, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, USA
Bettina Zimmermann, Dr. phil., Technical University of Munich, Germany


Editorial Advisors
Akira Akabayashi, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Solly Benatar, University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics, Canada
Lisa A Bero, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Timothy Caulfield, University of Alberta, Canada
Bernard Dickens, University of Toronto, Canada
Annette Dula, University of Colorado, USA
Ezekiel Emanuel, National Institutes of Health, USA
Joseph Fins, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, USA
Mary Ann Lansang, The INCLEN Trust, Philippines
Andreas Lundh, Rigshospitalet, Denmark
Paul Ndebele, Medical Research Council of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe
James L Nelson, Michigan State University, USA
Ole Norheim, University of Bergen, Norway
Wendy A Rogers, Macquarie University, Australia
Godfrey GT Tangwa, University of Yaounde, Cameroon
Susan Wolf, University of Minnesota, USA


Statistical Advisors
Maia Lesosky, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Tomohiro Shinozaki, Tokyo University of Science, Japan