Blue Peter Public Health & Research Centre (BPHRC)

 


Institutional Review Boards

Research Advisory Committee (RAC)
 
Meets annually with the following objectives:
Guiding the overall direction of research
Identifying priority areas for research
Approval for specific proposals
 
Chairman
1.
Lt. Gen. V.D. Tiwari, Dean, Chattisgarsh Institute of Medical Sciences, Bilaspur
Members
2.
Dr. J. Gowrishankar, CDFD, Hyderabad
3.
Prof. D. Balasubramanian, LV Prasad Eye Inst., Hyderabad
4.
Dr. VM Katoch, ICMR, New Delhi
5. Prof. John Porter, LSHTM, UK
6. Prof. Diana Lockwood, LSHTM,UK
7. Dr. Anton Pozniak, Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, London
8. Dr. Douglas Young, NIMH, London
9. Dr. Neil French, Karonga Prevention Study, Malawi
10 Prof. R.K. Mutatkar, Maharashtra Assoc. of Anthropological Sciences, Pune
11 Dr. S.V. Prasad, AP Chestt Hospital, Hyderabad, India
12 Dr. PV Ranganadha Rao, Chief Executive, LEPRA India
 
Institutional Ethical Committee (IEC):
 
To review biomedical research projects to safeguard the dignity, rights, safety and well being of the volunteers- patients and healthy subjects.
IEC was formed 2001 and meets as need based.

The members of the Institutional Ethical Committee are as follows:
Chairman
1.
Justice S. Dasaratharama Reddi, Retd. Judge, AP High Court, Hyderabad
Members
2.
Prof. G Sham Sundar, Former Vice Chancellor, NTR University of Health Sciences, Vijayawada
3.
Prof. Dr.K.K Raja Babu, Former Head, Dept. of Dermatology, Gandhi Hospital, Secunderabad
4.
Dr.(Mrs) Hannah Anandaraj, Faculty - Social Work, RM College of Social Work & Research Centre, Hyderabad
5.

Dr. KSR Siva Sai, Professor & Head – Dept. of Biotechnology, Srinidhi Inst. Of Science & Technology, Hyderabad.

6. Dr. PV Ranganadha Rao, Chief Executive, LEPRA India
7. Dr J Subbanna, Convener – Director, BPHRC

Institutional BioSafety Committee (IBSC)

To review Standard Operating procedures for infective material, biosecurity of equipment, DNA banks, biowaste disposal management
Chairman
1.
Dr. J. Subbanna, Director, BPHRC
Members
2.
Prof. Seyed E Hasnain, DBT Nominee, Vice-Chancellor, Hyderabad Central University, Hyderabad
3 Prof. D Balasubramanian, Member, Director – Research, LVPEI, Hyderabad
4 Dr. Ranjan Sen, Member, Staff Scientist, CDFD, Hyderabad
5 Dr. V Vijayalakshmi, Member, BPHRC
6
Dr. S Aparna, Member/Biosafety Officer, BPHRC