Welcome!

I am a demographer and economist whose research lies in the fields of global health, development, and gender, with a focus on South Asia. My overarching research agenda is concerned with studying how gender norms affect health outcomes — especially for women and children residing in countries of the global South. I use both large-scale secondary micro-level survey data and collect primary data for my research.

I am a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Göttingen in the Centre for Modern Indian Studies (CeMIS) and Chair of Development Economics. I received my PhD in Health Economics from the Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University in May 2023.

In my current research, I use time use data from South Asian countries to study gendered division of unpaid care work within the household. And examine how does access to alternative care arrangements — including those within the household such as grandparents, and those outside such as free community daycares— affect gender differences between parents in how they spend time.

Prior to my PhD at Hopkins I completed a Masters in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics. I have formerly consulted with Asian Development Bank, and World Bank and held research positions at the International Centre for Research on Women, and Oxford Policy Management in New Delhi. I have considerable fieldwork experience carrying out surveys at the household, health facility, and health worker levels which I carried out as part of impact evaluation studies (including randomized control trials) to improve health and sanitation outcomes in India.