I am a global health nutritionist specializing in equity-focused research on nutrition-sensitive interventions in South Asia. I apply an intersectional lens to my research, analysing how multiple social characteristics intersect to create complex systems of privilege and marginalization in the context of nutrition inequalities and intervention research.
My current work focuses on using intersectionality to investigate differences in the reach and benefits of existing nutrition-sensitive agriculture interventions in five states of rural India and designing and testing climate- and gender-sensitive and socially equitable market interventions that improve diets in rural, marginalised communities in Bihar, India.
My current work focuses on using intersectionality to investigate differences in the reach and benefits of existing nutrition-sensitive agriculture interventions in five states of rural India and designing and testing climate- and gender-sensitive and socially equitable market interventions that improve diets in rural, marginalised communities in Bihar, India.
Affiliations
Department of Population Health
Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health
Teaching
MSc in Nutrition for Global Health
Provided teaching support on the following modules: Fundamentals in Public Health Nutrition, Nutrition in Emergencies and Maternal and Child Nutrition
Supervised 3 summer projects
Tutor to 2 students on average each each
Member of the MSc in Nutrition for Global Health Course Committee
Provided teaching support on the following modules: Fundamentals in Public Health Nutrition, Nutrition in Emergencies and Maternal and Child Nutrition
Supervised 3 summer projects
Tutor to 2 students on average each each
Member of the MSc in Nutrition for Global Health Course Committee
Research
Research Area
Agriculture
Impact evaluation
Economic evaluation
Equity
Food
Gender
Epidemiology
Nutrition
Implementation science
Randomised controlled trials
Disease and Health Conditions
Malnutrition
Country
India
Region
South Asia
Selected Publications
The extent, range and nature of quantitative nutrition research engaging with intersectional inequalities: A systematic scoping review.
2024
Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.)
Mobile Interventions for Upscaling Participatory Action and Videos for Agriculture and Nutrition (m-UPAVAN): Qualitative Interview Data
2024
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Upscaling Participatory Action and Videos for Agriculture and Nutrition (UPAVAN) study data
2024
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Data for: Mobile Interventions for Upscaling Participatory Action and Videos for Agriculture and Nutrition (m-UPAVAN)
2023
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Assessing needs for interdisciplinarity in agriculture, nutrition, and health education
2023
Global Food Security