Research
Understanding how health risks take shape.Designing what comes next.
I bring medicine, epidemiology and social sciences together to study how health risks emerge, who bears these risks, and how communities and health systems can respond. My research spans infectious disease, antimicrobial resistance, vaccine research, mental health, environmental health, implementation and policy.
Three connected streams
From discovery to durable change.
My work follows a practical arc. I study the forces that shape health threats, develop and test responses in real-world settings, and examine what helps effective interventions move into durable policy and practice.
Defining the problem
How do health risks emerge, who bears these risks, and what propagates them across individuals, communities, and systems?
I use quantitative and qualitative epidemiological research methods to trace how health risks arise and move through individuals, communities, clinics, livestock, water, and food systems. I seek to establish the nature and magnitude of health risks, identify their underlying determinants, understand who is most affected and why, and uncover the structural and systemic conditions that allow these risks to persist.
Developing and testing solutions
How to ensure that vaccines, treatments, and community interventions are safe, effective and implementable in real-world settings?
I work with universities, public health agencies, clinicians, communities and civil-society partners to design, implement, and evaluate public health interventions. I view the design of a solution approach as the starting point. I evaluate what works, for whom, and under what conditions by comparing meaningful alternatives, measuring intended benefits and unintended harms, and assessing feasibility and durability beyond controlled research settings.
Monitoring, evaluation and scale-up
How can we transform evidence into policy and practice, strengthen implementation, and help effective interventions endure beyond a pilot?
I examine how interventions are adopted, implemented, evaluated and scaled. I am interested in what happens after the evidence is generated: how scientific knowledge shapes policy, where gaps emerge between policy and practice, and how monitoring, evaluation, and continuous adaptation can close these gaps and translate isolated successes into lasting improvements across health systems.
.jpg){kind=link}
“The road from policy development to implementation is usually long and rocky, one that must be trod with companions.”
Paul Farmer · “Accompaniment as Policy,” Harvard Kennedy School, 2011 ↗
How I work
Rigor, Context,
& Participation
No single method can be used to study complex health systems. I select and combine methods in response to the question, setting and people affected, bringing population-level evidence together with lived experience, implementation conditions and relationships among human, animal and environmental health.
Research in service of action
I believe evidence is strongest when it remains accountable to the people it is meant to serve.
I see research as a bridge between evidence and empathy. I translate research insight into community-driven action in India and beyond, connecting scientists, health workers, and citizens around grounded responses to health threats, including emerging and epidemic-prone infectious diseases, novel infectious agents, and antimicrobial resistance. More broadly, I aim to strengthen communities and health systems so they can anticipate, adapt and respond to changing public-health needs.