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I study the interface between work, health and environment. Through extensive fieldwork in India, my research conducted over the last decade, analyzes how socio-economic inequality impacts people’s pursuit of healthy life, housing and work. I adopt ethnographic, participatory research methods with working class communities and write for both academic and popular media. 

From April 2025, I am co-leading a workpackage on social science and public health reseach on health workers in India and Kenya. The workpackage includes a PhD and a Postdoctoral project in the two countries respectively, both of which I am co-supervising. The larger project titled Partnership for Education of Health Professionals  is funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation. 

Between 2022 and 2025, I was postdoctoral researcher on the Independent Research Fund project 'Disaster Risk Creation in Urban Resettlement Processes'. I conducted ethnographic fieldwork with populations displaced in the aftermath of the 2005 floods in Mumbai. My research examines the long term consequences of the slum rehabilitation housing policy, and its particular impacts on peoples' sense of home, wellbeing and work. 

Prior to my employment at the Global Health Section, I was an activist and anthropologist at a labor rights organization in India called Aajeevika Bureau (2019-2022). During this time, I conducted indepth, ethnographic research studies on work and health with colleagues in field offices across India. Some of our published work includes research on injury and finger loss, fire safety, impact of the coronavirus pandemic and legal provisions for workers' health and safety. During this time, I also regularly published in popular media and presented research in public fora. 

I did my PhD at Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen (2014 - 2019). In my doctoral project, I examine how people facing lack of stable employment over the long term encounter, resist and shape crises of work, health and wellbeing. I collected oral histories and conducted ethnographic fieldwork over fifteen months across the megalopolis of Mumbai: finding and following workers in different slum neighborhoods, collective organizations and trade unions. 

This research won the prestigious Elite Forsk PhD prize awarded by the Danish Ministry for Higher Education and Research. You can access the most recent publications from this research here and here. You can also hear me present this research on the anthropology podcast Anthropotamus

I teach on different courses of the MSc Global Health and Master in Disaster Managament programmes
SGLK20003U The Anthropology of Global Health (Course Leader)
SGLK20001U Health Research Methodology (Teach on Qualitative Research Methods)
Disaster Recovery Planning and Development (Co-course Leader)

I also teach on the Summer School Creating Health Cities (SGLK22001U) and the PhD course on Advanced Qualitative Research in Public and Global Health 

I am available for supervision of Masters theses and projects on the following broad themes
- Work and health
- Health and care workers
- Urban health and disasters
- Migration, health and environment