Professional

Honors and Awards

Ø Awarded Honorary Fellowship by the School of Social and Political Sciences and Edinburgh Center for Medical Anthropology, University of Edinburgh for research, teaching, and joint supervision of PhD students. (1st April 2021 – 31st March 2022)

Ø Invited for an Academic visiting fellowship at School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Edinburgh (March-April 2020). Affiliated with EdCMA, the Global Mental Health Network and the Centre for South Asian Studies for the duration of the visit. (could not be undertaken due to COVID 19)

Ø Visiting fellowship to UC Berkeley, University of Iowa and City University of New York. (1st Sept- 15th November 2019) as a part of Centre for Environmental Health Exchange.

Ø Fellow, Public Health Research Initiative, SERB-DST & PHFI, 2015

Ø Fellow, Centre for Environmental Health, Public Health Foundation of India.2017

Ø Awarded Welcome Trust-PHFI future faculty fellowship for doctoral studies. 2010

Ø Awarded Research Council- UK bursary to attend ESRC Research Methods Festival during 5th and 8th July 2010 at St Catherine’s College, Oxford.

Ø Passed UGC National Eligibility Test in Anthropology.

Ø Passed Andhra Pradesh Public Service Commission-State Level Eligibility Test for lectureship in Anthropology.

Ø Awarded Centrally Administered Doctoral Fellowship by Indian Council of Social Science Research.

Ø Awarded research fellowship for doctoral research under the scheme “Award of Research Fellowship in various aspects of Tribal Development” for the year 2001-2002 by Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Government of India.

Professional Associations

1. Founder member of Indian National Confederation and the Academy of Anthropologists.

2. Life member of Indian Association for Social Sciences and Health.

3. Member of Clinically applied anthropology- ClinAntho a trans-disciplinary group of academics and clinicians.

4. A member of UCL Cultural Consultation Service group.

Reviews

· Anthropology and Medicine

· Medical Anthropology

· Journal of Anthropological Research

· International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care

· Journal of Anthropological Survey of India

· Journal of Indian Anthropological Society

· Human Organisation

· CASTE: A Global Journal on Social Exclusion

· BMC Public Health

· PLOS Global Public Health

· PLOS ONE

· Wellcome Open Research

Other Activies

Ø Member, Institutional Ethics Committee, IIT Hyderabad, Telangana (2021-24)

Ø Member, Andhra Pradesh State Epidemiological Committee for COVID19. (2021-22)

Ø Honorary Adjunct faculty member, School of Medical Sciences, UoH (2013-2018).

Ø Consultant, Mahatma Gandhi National Council of Rural Education, Hyderabad. (2019)

Ø Guest Faculty at ICMR School of Public Health, National Institute of Epidemiology, Chennai. (2017-2023)

Ø Guest Faculty at Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad. (2016-17)

Ø Assistant Editor, Anthropology & Medicine journal (Taylor & Francis, UK) (2015-17)

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