Assistant Professor

Dr Sapna Mishra

Department of Liberal Arts

Interests

  1. Work and Health
  2. Health systems and Policy
  3. Politics of knowledge and Research Methodology

Faculty Details

Education

2014

Government Physiotherapy College, Pandit, Deendayal Upadhyay Memorial Health Science and Ayush University, Raipur, Chhattisgarh
Bachelor of Physiotherapy (BPT)

2016

University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, Telangana
Master of Public Health (MPH)

2021

Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum, Kerala
PhD

Experience

  • March 07, 2022 – September 14, 2023 – Assistant Professor at the School of Development, Azim Premji University, Bangalore, Karnataka

Research Interest

  • Exploring health system as a complex system; frameworks, and theories to study health systems (WHO building block, health system dynamic framework, control and Knobbs framework etc), frameworks and theories to analyse policies (Multiple streams theory, advocacy coalition framework, street level bureaucracy etc.).
  • Understanding work and health using both biomedical and sociological lens
  • Exploring the domain of knowledge production such as who produces knowledge, whose voice are taken into consideration.

Awards & Fellowships

  • UGC-JRF Fellowship (2015) in Social Medicine and Community Health

Publications

  • Mini GK, Mishra S, Lordson J, Mohan M. Exploring problematizationsunderlying Tuberculosis control strategies: A cross-country analysis of India and Kenya In Tuberculosis - Integrated studies for a complex disease Springer Nature publication. Springer (2023)
  • Mishra S, Gaitonde R. Health problems and healthcare-seeking practices of workers processing e-waste in the unorganized sector in the slums of a south Indian city: An exploratory study- Indian journal of occupational and environmental medicine. 26(4):255-260 (2022). doi:10.4103/ijoem.ijoem_65_22
  • Jose SD, Mishra S, Mini G. K. Health-Related Quality of Life and Associated Factors Among Adults with Type-2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Community-Based Cross-Sectional Study in Rural Kerala, India - Indian Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism. 26(6):530-536 (2022). doi:10.4103/ijem.ijem_271_22
  • Mishra S, Maringanti A, Gaitonde R. Coping with precarious work: A case of rampant use of Tetanus Toxoid (TT) injection by the workers in unorganized e- waste sector in the slums of a South Indian city. Journal of Indian Anthropological Society, 56(3):309-325 (2021).
  • Mishra S, Mohan M, Gaitonde R. Covid-19 pandemic and interstate migrants: documenting the response of health system and civil society - In: India Migration Report. First. Routledge (2022)
  • Mishra S, Gaitonde R. Challenges of informed consent during a political crisis: A case study of research with a marginalised group - Indian Journal of Medical Ethics, VI(3):1-5 (2021). doi: 10.20529/IJME. 2020.130
  • Mohan M, Mishra S. India’s Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Frontal Assault on the “Historically Dispossessed.” - International Journal of Health Services, 51(1):107-114 (2021). doi:10.1177/0020731420968438
  • Mishra S. Perceived and Manifested Health Problems among Informal E-waste Handlers: A Scoping Review - Indian journal of occupational and environmental medicine, 23(1), 7–14 (2019). https://doi.org/10.4103/ijoem.IJOEM_231_18
  • Mishra S, Shamanna BR, Kannan S. Exploring the Awareness Regarding E-waste and its Health Hazards among the Informal Handlers in Musheerabad Area of Hyderabad - Indian journal of occupational and environmental medicine, 21(3), 143–148 (2017). https://doi.org/10.4103/ijoem.IJOEM_116_17

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