Membership & Honours

Membership 

• Founder Member, Indian National Confederation and Academy of Anthropologists (INCAA)

• Life Member, Andhra Pradesh Tuberculosis Association

• Life Member, Society of Indian Medical Anthropologists (SIMA)

Honours

• Chairman of Sikkim State High-Level Committee(SSHLC) will work on the modalities for the inclusion of 12 left out communities of Sikkim in the List of Scheduled Tribes in the Constitution of India.

• Chief Editor, Journal of Anthropological Survey of India (Since 2023)

• Member, State Biodiversity Board, Telangana (since Dec. 2022)

• Associate Editor, Journal of Indian Anthropological Society (Since 2022)

• Vice-Chairman, Indian National Confederation and Academy of Anthropologists (since Feb. 2020)

• Honorary Advisor (Social and Behavioural Research), Lepra India, (February 20, 2020 - Feb. 2021)

• Member, State Research Advisory Committee (SRAC), Department of School Education, Government of Telangana, (2016-17)

• Member, Research Advisory Committee, Sarva Siksha Abhiyan, Telangana. (2014-15)

• Member, Research Advisory Committee, Sarva Siksha Abhiyan, Andhra Pradesh. (2013-14)

• Adjunct Faculty of IHMR, Bangalore (2011)

• Member of the Advisory Committee for the South Asian Centre for Research on Disabled at IIPH, Hyderabad.

• Social Development Consultant to A.P T.B Society, Andhra Pradesh. (Jan. - Dec. 2000)

• Honorary Consultant (Health Projects) to Lepra India, Hyderabad. (Jan.- Dec. 2000)

• Member, Sub-committee for Operational Research (Scrutiny & Funding), A.P TB Society, Andhra Pradesh (1999)