Namita Ghimire

Namita Ghimire serves as the lead of the Ethical Review Monitoring and Evaluation Section at the Nepal Health Research Council (NHRC), overseeing the ethical integrity of health research conducted in Nepal. Her responsibilities include the ethical review of research proposals to ensure full compliance with national standards, as well as the post-approval monitoring of research projects to maintain ethical conduct. Additionally, she manages the ethical compliance of over 60 ethics committees nationwide. Beyond her regulatory role, Namita leads ethics-related research and conducts workshops on ethical aspects and regulatory frameworks.She has authored multiple ethics-related publications and is currently involved in a pandemic ethics project initiated by the University of Oslo, Norway.