Aruna Bhattacharya

Biography

Dr. Aruna is an Associate Professor at Indian Institute of Public Health- Delhi. She is the lead faculty for “Behavioural and Social Sciences” at the Institute. In her academic role, she developed curriculum for ‘Qualitative Research Methods’ in Research Methods course for Distance Learning courses on Public Health Nutrition and Management of Reproductive and Child Health Programmes. She also developed course materials for distance learning course at PHFI on ‘Intensive Professional Program in Sexually Transmitted Infections and HIV’. In addition, she has been mentoring students in their thesis projects and in meeting their academic goals. She has developed and delivered training programs in the areas of Qualitative Research Methods in Public Health as well as Ethics in Public Health. She has developed successful research/grant proposals and participated in research projects on Child Protection, Harm Reduction for injecting drug users, Nutrition programme in tribal areas in India with National and International collaborators. She co-authored a book on Family Planning and published number of articles in national and international journals.

Research Interest

public health