About
I am a Public Health Researcher working at the intersection of gender-based violence, migration-related precarity, and mental health in urban contexts. I currently serve as a Quantitative Researcher & Country Coordinator for GEMMS India (Gendered Violence and Poor Mental Health among Migrants in Precarious Situations) and am a member of the project’s global Governance Group.
In this role, I support quantitative research, field operations, and data management. As Co-Lead for GEMMS Data Management, I contributed to the development of the project’s data protection and management strategy and supported compliance processes across sites.
I co-developed the GEMMS quantitative survey tool assessing gendered violence and mental health among migrants in precarious conditions and have led the training of field enumerators in trauma-informed data collection and distress management protocols. My current research examines the intersections of gender-based violence, migration-related precarity, and mental health, with a focus on community-validated research tools and ethically grounded, participatory interventions.
I hold a PhD in Health Systems from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, where my doctoral research examined care work, migration, and health systems. Prior to GEMMS, I worked as a Senior Research Fellow at The George Institute for Global Health and as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.
My work has been published in PLOS Global Public Health, BMJ Open, and BMJ Global Health. I currently serve as Assistant Editor for Health Policy at South Asia Research (SAGE Journals).
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Publications (8)
- The early advantage: How antenatal care shapes cognitive development in India: Evidence from Young Lives, India Save
- Community health workers for health systems resilience during COVID-19: protocol for qualitative evidence synthesis Save
- The Transmutation of Care and Emotional Labour: A Case of Indian Nurse Migration’ (in-press) ‘India Migration Report 2022’ (Ed. Irudaya Rajan, Routledge) Save
- ‘Beyond the Caring Obligation: Indian Nurses Negotiating Nursing Care & Emigration’ (in press) ‘India Migration Report 2022’ (Ed. Irudaya Rajan, Routledge) Save
- Does maternal willingness to get pregnant determine childhood stunting? Evidence from Young Lives India Save
- “I am tired of the disease and eating too many medicines”: seeking adolescent’s lived experiences about Chronic Renal Disease (CRD) Save
- Understanding the District Planning Process from the perception of stakeholders in the District Health System under the National Rural Health Mission Save
- Study of Rogi Kalyan Samitis in Strengthening Health Systems under National Rural Health Mission, District Pune, Maharashtra Save