Alacrity Muksor

About

Alacrity Muksor is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Centre for Public Policy, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, Karnataka, India. She hails from Ummulong, a village in the West Jaintia Hills District of Meghalaya, and belongs to the Pnar tribe, which practices a matrilineal social system.

She holds a Ph.D. in Development Studies from the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. She earned a Master’s in Public Health from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, and a Bachelor’s degree in Nursing from the North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences (NEIGRIHMS), Shillong.

Prior to her doctoral studies, Alacrity worked with the National Health Systems Resource Centre (NHSRC), New Delhi, which provides technical support to the National Health Mission under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India. She also served as a Registered Nurse in Primary and Community Health Centres in Meghalaya.

Her research interests include health systems and policy, non-communicable diseases, tribal health, and women’s health.

Employment

• Indian Institute of Management Bangalore Post-Doctoral Fellow
  2025 - Present
• Health Systems Transformation Platform, New Delhi Senior Researcher-State Program Manager
  2023 - 2025
• National Health Systems Resource Centre
  2017 - 2018
• District Medical and Health Officer's Office Registered Nurse
  2015 - 2015
• District Medical and Health Officer's Office Registered Nurse
  2014 - 2015

Education

• Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati PhD Development Studies (Public Health)
  2019 - 2024
• Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai India Master of Public Health (Social Epidemiology)
  2015 - 2017
• North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences Bachelor of Science in Nursing
  2010 - 2014

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (8)

• Impediments to diabetes management among older women: A qualitative study from rural Meghalaya, India
  Journal of Health Services Research & Policy 2026 DOI: 10.1177/13558196261437023
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• Implementation of the National Program for Prevention and Control of Cancer, Diabetes, Cardiovascular Diseases and Stroke (NPCDCS) in Meghalaya
  Policies for Research and Innovation 2024 DOI: 10.1007/978-981-97-5681-0_6
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• Cultural Beliefs and Practices in Self-Management of Diabetes Among Pnar Women in Meghalaya, India
  The Science of Diabetes Self-Management and Care 2023 DOI: 10.1177/26350106231208155
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• Integrated Risk of Virus Outbreaks
  Integrated Risk of Pandemic: Covid-19 Impacts, Resilience and Recommendations 2020
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• Rural–Urban Differential in NCD Multi-Morbidity in Adult Population in India: Finding from IHDS-II
  Journal of Tropical Medicine and Health 2018
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• Morbidity Pattern, Health Seeking Behaviour And Cost Of Care For Adult Population In India: A Secondary Data Analysis Using IHDS-I And IHDS-II
  2017
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• COVID-19 in Rural India-XXXVII: How Ummulong Village in Meghalaya is Struggling to Cope with the Lockdown
  News Click
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• The Archetype of Public District Hospital- A Case study of Ganesh Hospital, Meghalaya
  Health, Gender and Development: Emerging Issues and Challenges
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