Devaki Nambiar

Biography

Devaki Nambiar is a Senior Research Scientist at PHFI with an interest in research and action on the social and political determinants of health and health reform in resource-poor settings. She concurrently supports post-graduate training and capacity building in health policy and systems research at the Indian Institute of Public Health - Delhi. She is a Bernard C Lown Scholar in Cardiovascular Health at the Harvard School of Public Health and a 2017 recipient of the Wellcome Trust/Department of Biotechnology Intermediate Investigator Fellowship. With over a decade of experience in public health research in over a half a dozen countries and as many Indian states, Dr. Nambiar is a former Fulbright (2006-07), NIH (predoctoral and postdoctoral) (2006-09, 2009-10), and Fogarty scholar (2008). She was member of the core technical secretariat for India's High Level Expert Group on Universal Health Coverage (2010-11), and the drafting team of India’s National Urban Health Mission Technical Resource Group (2013-14). She is currently leading action research on urban health inequalities, community action for tribal health, implementation research seeking to expand Comprehensive Primary Health Care to include non-communicable diseases, and a demographic study to understand adverse Child Sex Ratios in NorthEast India. Dr. Nambiar serves on the National Technical Advisory Group of the Indian Government on Non-Communicable Diseases. She is a member of the American Anthropological Association, American Public Health Association, Health Systems Global (serving as Vice-Chair of the Knowledge to Action Working Group), the Society for the Social Studies of Science, Medico Friends Circle, and the People’s Health Movement. She serves on the International Editorial Advisory Board of Global Public Health, and has published in and peer reviewed several public health and social science journals. Dr. Nambiar received her doctorate in Public Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2009.

Research Interest

Health Policy/Systems Research, Health for All, Social Determinants of Health, Mixed Methods Research, Knowledge Translation