Since 2018, Saxena has been a visiting professor at the University of Geneva and a Senior Bioethics adviser at the INCLEN Trust International.

Saxena completed her undergraduate degree, MBBS, and MD from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, where she trained as an anesthesiologist.

[1] Saxena was a member of the faculty of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi from 1986 to 1999, during which time she taught and conducted research in anesthesiology and palliative care.

[1] For twenty years she practiced medicine actively in hospital and community-based research in India.

[3] In May 2018, Saxena left the World Health Organization and is now a visiting professor at the University of Geneva and a Senior Bioethics adviser at the INCLEN Trust International.