Shabana Khan

About

Dr. Shabana Khan is the Director of Indian Research Academy, New Delhi, India. She is a scientific committee member of Scientific Committee Member: Climate and Health Working Group, The Association of Academies and Societies of Sciences in Asia (AASSA). She is an alumina of the Global Young Academy and a World Social Science Fellow on Risk Interpretation and Action with the International Social Science Council. Her current research is focusing on climate change, risk communication and disaster response from an interdisciplinary perspective. In her nearly 20 years of research journey, She has published more than 34 international publications in peer-reviewed journals, reports and books. Her current research is focused on the risk communication across global agreements, climate and health in India and resolving disaster dilemmas at the local level. Previously, Dr Khan has also worked on water-related hazards and governance in Dwarka as part of the EU project Chance2Sustain with the University of Amsterdam, and accreditation of disaster management training, education and research in India with SEEDS Technical Consultancy Services. She has also taught as an assistant professor at the Department of Geography, at the University of Delhi, as research fellow at the School of Planning and Architecture, as researcher at the New Zealand Climate Change Research Institute and as a visiting scholar at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Sciences in New Zealand.

Employment

• Indian Research Academy Director
  2016 - Present

Education

• Victoria University of Wellington PhD
  2006 - 2010

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (19)

• A review of regional variations in vulnerability to infectious diseases and policy implications for climate change and health
  Natural Hazards Research 2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.nhres.2023.09.004
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• Exploring the Sensitivity of Risk Communication for the Climate Crisis, Cultural Loss and Legal Implications
  Special issue: Climate Crisis and Cultural Loss. Hors Serie 2024
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• Roles of Technology for Risk Communication and Community Engagement in Bangladesh during COVID-19 Pandemic
  ACM Journal on Computing and Sustainable Societies 2024 DOI: 10.1145/3648433
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• Risk communication and community engagement during COVID-19
  International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 2022 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2022.102903
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• Critical gaps and implications of risk communication in the global agreements—SFDRR, SDGs, and UNFCCC: 3 select case studies from urban areas of tropics in South Asia
  Natural Hazards 2022 DOI: 10.1007/s11069-021-05148-z
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• Roles of Technology for Risk Communication and Community Engagement in Bangladesh during COVID-19 Pandemic
  2022 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4071728
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• The dynamism of post disaster risk communication: A cross-country synthesis
  International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 2020 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2020.101556
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• Rethinking communication in risk interpretation and action
  Natural Hazards 2017 DOI: 10.1007/s11069-017-2942-z
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• Viewpoint paper. Islander mobilities: Any change from climate change?
  International Journal of Global Warming 2015 DOI: 10.1504/IJGW.2015.073056
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• Scenario building as a process and tool in urban governance
  Geographies of Urban Governance: Advanced Theories, Methods and Practices 2015 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-21272-2_10
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