Faculty Publications

Sualeha Shekhani, Aamir Jafarey, “Amid Explosions in Gaza, The Silence from the Bioethics Community is Deafening,” Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11673-024-10364-w
Sualeha Shekhani, “Daughters and daughters-in-law providing elderly care: a qualitative study from Karachi, Pakistan,” BMC Geriatrics, vol. 24, 785 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-024-05295-5
Bushra Shirazi, Qamar Riaz, Aamir Mustafa Jafarey, et al., “The current status and challenges of bioethics education in undergraduate medical education in Karachi, Pakistan, BMC Medical Education, vol. 24, no. 737 (2024): 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-024-05599-5.
Sreeparna Chattopadhyay, Sualeha Siddiq Shekhani, “Race, Research, and Bioethics: The Chapatis Studies,” The Hastings Center (October 27, 2023)
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Aamir Jafarey, Sualeha Shekhani, Faiz Raza, Sumera Naz, “A pilot situation analysis of mapping research ethics governance in Pakistan” Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal, (2023)
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Sualeha Siddiq Shekhani, Farhat Moazam, Aamir Jafarey, “Fighting the COVID‐19 pandemic: A socio‐cultural insight into Pakistan,” Developing World Bioethics, (June 2023): 1–12. DOI: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/dewb.12413
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Daliya Rizvi, Sualeha Shekhani, “Bioethics and adolescents: a comparative analysis of student views and knowledge regarding biomedical ethics,” International Journal of Ethics Education, vol.8, (2022): 165-176. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40889-022-00157-3.
Bushra Shirazi, Sualeha Siddiq Shekhani,·and Farhat Moazam, ” Teaching bioethics online during Covid‑19: Reflections from Pakistan, ” International Journal of Ethics Education, vol. 8, (2022): 85–98. https://doi. 10.1007/s40889-022-00155-5
Farid Bin Masood, Asma Nasim, Shahid Saleem and Aamir Mustafa Jafarey, “COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among health service providers: A single centre experience from Karachi, Pakistan,” Journal of Pakistan Medical Association, vol. 72, no. 6, (2022): 1142-1147. DOI: https://doi.org/10.47391/JPMA.4416.
Ali Asghar Anwar Lanewala, Sualeha Siddiq Shekhani, “Indirect costs associated with “free” paediatric haemodialysis: Experience from Karachi, Pakistan,” Indian Journal of Medical Ethics (2021). https://doi:10.20529/IJME.2022.006.
Sualeha S. Shekhani, Saima P. Iqbal and Aamir M. Jafarey, “Adapting the ethical review process for COVID-19 research: reviewers’ perspectives from Pakistan,” Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal, vol. 27, no.11 (2021): 1045-1051. https://doi.org/10.26719/emhj.21.053.
Sualeha Siddiq Shekhani, Ali Asghar Lanewala, “Ethical Challenges in Dialysis and Transplantation: Perspectives from the Developing World,” Seminars in Nephrology, vol. 41, no. 3 (2021): 211-219. https://doi: 10.1016/j.semnephrol.2021.05.002.
Sualeha Siddiq Shekhani, “Intersection of mental illness, the supernatural, and gender in Pakistan,” Hektoen International Journal (January 2021).
Bushra Shirazi, Sualeha Shekhani, “Patient’s expectations of privacy and confidentiality in Pakistan: a mixed-methods study,” Journal of Pakistan Medical Association (November 2020).
Aamir Jafarey, Natasha Anwar, “A never ending vaccine story,” The News on Sunday (July 12, 2020)
Farhat Moazam and Aamir Jafarey, “Realigning Pakistan’s Bioethics Center during Covid-19,” Hastings Center Report, vol. 50, no. 3 (May-June 2020): 8-9.
Sualeha Shekhani, Natasha Anwar, Mariam Hassan,”Plasma therapy for Covid-19: The hopes and the hype,” Dawn Prism (June 25, 2020)
Aamir Jafarey, Natasha Anwar, “What are Covid-19 anti-bodies? Does it help to test for them? Here’s what is known so far,” Dawn Prism (June 25, 2020)
Aamir Jafarey, Nida Wahid Bashir, “From bouquets to brickbat: Healthcare workers in the time of Covid-19,” Dawn Prism (June 22, 2020)
Aamir Jafarey, “Ethical dilemmas in clinical care during Covid-19 pandemic,” Journal of Pakistan Medical Association, vol. 70, no. 5 (May 2020)
Ghazal Shahid, Sualeha Shekhani, “Voices of the unheard: Living through the Karachi lockdown as a daily wager,” Dawn Prism (May 12, 2020)
Farhat Moazam, “Ethics and COVID,” Dawn Op-ed (May 03, 2020)
Sanjay Nagral, Aamir Jafarey, “A task for South Asia,” The Hindu (April 29, 2020)
Aamir Jafarey, Nida Wahid Bashir, “To fight Covid-19, healthcare workers need responsible citizenry, capacity building, and reciprocity,” Dawn Prism (April 10, 2020)
Sualeha Shekhani, Natasha Anwar, Mariam Hassan, “Does plasma therapy treat COVID? Is it safe? Here’s all you need to know about the approach,” Dawn Prism (April 6, 2020)
Aamir Jafarey, Sualeha Shekhani, “With COVID-19, healthcare workers are having to choose who gets a chance to live, and who will be left to die,” Dawn Prism (March 25, 2020)
Anika Khan, “Mardangi,” Himal Southasian, January 31, 2020.
Anika Khan, Rabia Nadir, “The Trouble With Tourism,” DAWN (October 20, 2019).
Aamir M Jafarey, “The meaninglessness of doing bioethics: Reality check from a conflict zone,” Indian Journal of Medical Ethics (September 5, 2019).
Farhat Moazam, “Encounters of a Different Kind”, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, Spring 2019, vol 62, no. 2: 337-341.
Sualeha Shekhani, Asma Nasim, “Media coverage of Larkana’s HIV outbreak is a lesson in how to not report on health” Prism Dawn (May 27, 2019).
Sualeha Siddiq Shekhani, “Intersection of faith and science in Garcia-Marquez’s Of Love and Other Demons.” Hektoen International (Spring 2019)
Anika Khan, “Gilgamesh and medicine’s quest to conquer death,” Hektoen International (May 16, 2019).
Nida Wahid Bashir, Aamir Jafarey, “Nashwa’s death is tragic. What can be done to prevent such incidents?” Dawn Prism (May 01, 2019)
Anika Khan, Sualeha Shekhani, “Are doctors ready for the medical needs of the transgender community?” Dawn (March 28, 2019).
Anika Khan, “Despite the benefits that come with the ability to earn, work is a double-edged sword for some women,” Dawn (Feb 08, 2019).
Sualeha Siddiq Shekhani, Farhat Moazam, “The Myth of Doctor Brides,” DAWN (January 27, 2019).
Sualeha Siddiq Shekhani, “How to respond to Pakistan’s alarming suicide rates?” DAWN Blogs (November 29, 2018).
Anika Khan, Sualeha Siddiq Shekhani, Aamir Jafarey, “Demystifying the practice of khafd in the Dawoodi Bohra community: A commentary on the WeSpeakOut report from India,”Indian Journal of Medical Ethics, (2018).
Maliha Azmi, Sualeha Siddiq Shekhani, “HIV is not a death sentence. So why do we treat it like one?” Dawn (June 14, 2018).
Marisa De Andrade, Aamir Jafarey, Sualeha Siddiq Shekhani & Nikolina Angelova, “The Ethics of Pharma-Physician Relations in Pakistan: When in Rome,” Journal Ethics & Behavior, (June 5, 2018).
Aamir Jafarey, Sualeha Siddiq Shekhani, “Hockey hero Mansoor Ahmed would not have died had Pakistan had a deceased organ donation programme,” Dawn (May 16, 2018).
Sualeha Siddiq Shekhani, Asma Nasim, “Pakistan’s newest health challenge: The typhoid superbug,” Dawn (April 3, 2018).
Aamir Jafarey, Sualeha Siddiq Shekhani, “Why are Pakistani doctors assisting in the ‘missing women’ phenomena?” Dawn Blogs, (March 16, 2018).
Farhat Moazam, Sualeha Siddiq Shekhani, “Why women go to medical college but fail to practise medicine: perspectives from the Islamic Republic of Pakistan,” Medical Education, (March 2018).
Sualeha Siddiq Shekhani, Shagufta Perveen, Dur-e-Sameen Hashmi, et al, “Suicide and deliberate self-harm in Pakistan: a scoping review,” BMC Psychiatry, vol. 18, no. 44 (February 2018).
Sualeha Siddiq Shekhani, Aamir Jafarey, “ Pakistan’s flawed forensic investigation in rape cases is the weak link in the justice system,” Dawn (January 02, 2018).
Sualeha Siddiq Shekhani, Aamir Jafarey, “Pakistani medical codes weren’t violated in sending friend request to Sharmeen’s sister – and that’s a problem,” Dawn (October 30, 2017).
Farhat Moazam, “Reading Caplan in Karachi.” Indian Journal of Medical Ethics, October 5, 2017.
Bushra Shirazi, Sualeha Siddiq Shekhani, “Impact of the Word Cancer: a Pilot Study on Breast Cancer Patients from Pakistan,” Asian Bioethics Review, vol. 9, no. 3 (October 2017): 229–238.
Aamir M. Jafarey, Sualeha Siddiq Sheikhani, Bushra Shirazi “Bio-banking in the subcontinent: exploring concerns,” Indian Journal of Medical Ethics, vol. 11, no. 4 (October-December 2017): 248-254.
Anika Khan, “Growing up immersed in a virtual world.”The Lahore Journal of Policy Studies, December 2017, Vol.7, No. 1
Anika Khan, “A case for promulgating ethics education in Pakistani schools.” Dawn, (November 9, 2017)
Anika Khan, “Locked-in syndrome: inside the cocoon.” Hektoen International, Summer 2017 – Volume 9, Issue 3, winner of 1st prize in annual essay competition
Anika Khan, “Surrogacy in Pakistan” (letter to the editor). Dawn, (March 11, 2017)
Aamir Jafarey, Sualeha Siddiq Shekhani, el at, “Physicians in Cyberspace: Finding Boundaries,” Asian Bioethics Review, vol. 8, no. 4 (May 2016)
Farhat Moazam, “Teaching tools of medicine,” Dawn, Opinion (February 29, 2016).
Aamir M. Jafarey, Anika Khan, and Farhat Moazam, “Experience of a New Kind: External Review of a Bioethics Centre,” Asian Bioethics Review, vol. 7, no. 4 (2015): 345-358.
Dominique E. Martin, Kristof Van Assche, Beatriz Domínguez-Gil, Marta López-Fraga, Debra Budiani-Saberi, Jacob Lavee, Annika Tibell, Farhat Moazam et al. “Prevention of Transnational Transplant-Related Crimes-What More Can be Done?” Transplantation (September 26, 2015).
Dominique E. Martin, Thomas A. Nakagawa, Marion J. Siebelink, Katrina A. Bramstedt, Joe Brierley, Fabienne Dobbels, James R. Rodrigue, Minnie Sarwal, Ron Shapiro, Beatriz Dominguez-Gil, Gabriel Danovitch, Stuart C, Sweet, Richard S Trompeter, Farhat Moazam et al. “Pediatric deceased donation—a report of the Transplantation Society meeting in Geneva,” Transplantation, vol. 99, no. 7 (December 21, 2015): 1403-1409.
Muhammad Shahid Shamim, Bushra Shirazi, Aamir Omair. “Evaluation of diploma in bioethics programme, Karachi, Pakistan: An educational research,” The Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association, vol. 65, no. 4 (2015): 397-409.
Farhat Moazam, Aamir Jafarey, “Pakistan’s experience with kidney transplantation and trade: a call for international solidarity,” Indian Journal of Medical Ethics, vol. 65, no. 3 (2014): 156-162.
Aamir Jafarey, Sanjay Nagral, “Towards deceased organ donation in Asia: negotiating the challenges,” Indian Journal of Medical Ethics, vol. 11, no. 3 (2014): 137.
Aamir Jafarey, “Bioethics: Challenging the New Normal,” Paramount Textbook of Preventive Health and Community Medicine, Chp.1 (2014): 1-26.
Aamir Jafarey, “A degree in bioethics: an” introspective” analysis from Pakistan,” Indian Journal of Medical Ethics, vol. 11, no. 2 (2013): 93-99.
Farhat Moazam, “Living Organ Donation and Organ Shortages: Another Perspective,” The Future of Bioethics: International Dialogues (2014): 468.
Farhat Moazam, “Reflections: What goes around us,” Dawn, Magazine (August 18, 2013).
Farhat Moazam, Aamir M. Jafarey, Bushra Shirazi, “To Donate a kidney: public perspectives from Pakistan,” Bioethics, vol. 28, no. 2 (2014): 76-83.
Farhat Moazam, About Sherine Hamdy, “Our Bodies belong to God: Organ Transplants, Islam, and the Struggle for Human Dignity in Egypt,” book review in European Journal of Sociology, vol. 53, no.3 (2012): 385-389 DOI: 10.1017/S0003975612000306.
Aamir Mustafa Jafarey, Saima Pervaiz Iqbal, Mariam Hassan, “Ethical review in Pakistan: the credibility gap.” The Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association, vol. 62, no. 12 (2012): 1354-1357.
Farhat Moazam, “Pakistan and kidney trade: battles won, battles to come,” Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, vol. 16, no. 4 (2013): 925-928.
Farhat Moazam, “Kidney Trade, the Hydra of Pakistan,” Dawn, Magazine (August 5, 2012).
Farhat Moazam, “More than meets the eye,” Dawn, Opinion (June 17, 2012).
Farhat Moazam, “Doing Bioethics in Pakistan,” Bioethics Forum of The Hastings Center, New York (May 18, 2012).
Farhat Moazam, “Sharia law and organ transplantation: through the lens of Muslim jurists,” Asian Bioethics Review, vol. 3, no. 4 (2011): 316-332.
Farhat Moazam, “Pitch it right,” Dawn, Images (December 11, 2011).
Farhat Moazam, “Kidney Trade: A Social Issue,” Dawn (July 16, 2011).
Anika Khan, “Beyond Paternalism: The Physician’s Identity in the Relational Web,” Asian Bioethics Review, vol. 3, no. 2 (2011): 137-141.
Athula Sumathipala, Aamir Jafarey, “Ethics of disaster management, clinical care and research,” Asian Bioethics Review, vol. 2, no. 2 (2010): 105-107.
Athula Sumathipala, Aamir Jafarey et al. “Ethical issues in post-disaster clinical interventions and research: A developing world perspective. Key findings from a drafting and consensus generation meeting of the Working Group on Disaster Research and Ethics (WGDRE) 2007,”Asian Bioethics Review, vol. 2, no. 2 (2010): 124-142.
Aamir M. Jafarey, Farhat Moazam, ““Indigenizing” Bioethics: The First Center for Bioethics in Pakistan,” Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, vol. 19, no. 03 (2010): 353-362.
Bushra Shirazi, Aamir M. Jafarey, Farhat Moazam, “Plagiarism and the medical fraternity: a study of knowledge and attitudes,” The Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association, vol. 60, no. 4 (2010): 269.
Aamir Jafarey, Farhat Moazam, “Informed consent is a moral imperative,” Indian Journal of Medical Ethics, vol. 7, no. 2 (2010).
Aamir Jafarey, Farhat Moazam, “Presumed consent: a problematic concept,” Indian Journal of Medical Ethics, vol. 6, no. 3 (2009).
Farhat Moazam, Riffat Moazam Zaman, Aamir M. Jafarey, “Conversations with kidney vendors in Pakistan,” Hastings Center Report, vol. 39, no. 3 (2009): 29-44.
Aamir Jafarey, “Ethics and Money Talk,” Asian Bioethics Review, vol. 1, no. 1 (2008): 62-63.
Aamir Jafarey, G Thomas, Aasim Ahmed, S Srinivasan, “Medical professionals and the organ trade: an unholy alliance,” Indian Journal of Medical Ethics, vol. 4, no. 2 (2007).
N. Sofaer, Aamir Jafarey, R. P. Lei, X. Zhang, D. Wikler, “Unconditional compensation: reducing the costs of disagreement about compensation for research subjects,” Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal, vol. 13, no.1 (2006): 6-16.
Aamir Jafarey, “Informed consent: views from Karachi,” Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal, vol. 12, (2006): 50-5.
Farhat Moazam, “Ethical and Social Dimensions of Brain Death,” Pakistan Journal of Neurological Science, vol. 1, no.1 (2006): 39–41.
Farhat Moazam, “Research and developing countries: hopes and hypes,” East Mediterranean Health Journal, vol. 12 (2006): 30-6.
Aamir Jafarey, A. Farooqui, “Informed consent in the Pakistani milieu: the physician’s perspective,” Journal of Medical Ethics, vol. 31, no. 2 (2005): 93-96.
Farhat Moazam, Aamir M. Jafarey, “Pakistan and biomedical ethics: Report from a Muslim country,” Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, vol. 14, no. 03 (2005): 249-255.
Bushra Shirazi, M. Shahzad Shamim, M. Shahid Shamim, Asif Ahmed, “Medical ethics in surgical wards: knowledge, attitude and practice of surgical team members in Karachi,” Indian Journal of Medical Ethics, vol. 2, no. 3 (2005): 94.
Farhat Moazam, “The Hudud Ordinances of Pakistan,” Journal of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies (Fall 2004): 33–52.
Farhat Moazam, Riffat Moazam Zaman, “At the interface of cultures,” The Journal of Clinical Ethics, vol. 14, no. 4 (2003): 246–258.
Aamir M. Jafarey, “Bioethics and Medical Education,” Editorial, Journal of Pakistan Medical Association, vol. 53, no. 6 (2003): 209-10.
Aamir Jafarey, A. Farooqui, “Ethical dilemmas and the moral reasoning of medical students,” Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association, vol. 53, no. 6 (2003): 209-10.
Aamir Jafarey, “Informed consent in research and clinical situations,” Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association, vol. 53, no. 5 (2003): 171-172.
Aamir Jafarey, “Conflict of interest issues in informed consent for research on human subjects: A South Asian perspective,” Science and Engineering Ethics, vol. 8, no. 3 (2002): 353-362.
Aamir M. Jafarey, “The bioethics group of the Aga Khan University,” Indian Journal of Medical Ethics, vol. 10, no. 1 (2002): 163-64.