Deepa L. Persad

Deepa L. Persad is the Research Coordinator for McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health, Program on Ethics and Commercialization (MRC-PEC). Deepa is a graduate from the University of Toronto specializing in Bioethics and has been working for MRC-PEC for over six years on various projects including the Nanotechnology Developing Countries Top Ten study and the Grand Challenges in Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases initiative, recently published in Nature. Previously, Deepa coordinated the Executive Course on Genomics and Public Health Policy which took place in Hong Kong, China in October 2004, the 2005 Global Bargain for Biosecurity conference which took place at the New York Academy of Sciences, and the Regenerative Medicine Ethics Network (RMEthnet) for 2006. She also manages the MRC-PLEP Summer Student program and the MRC-PEC website. Deepa has written several government grant reports and is a member of the Genomics and Nanotechnology Working Group of the UN Millennium Project Task Force on Science, Technology and Innovation. Currently, Deepa is also coordinating the Ethical, Social and Cultural Advisory Service of the Bill and Melinda Gates’ Foundation's Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative.