डॉ. बी. आर. अम्बेडकर विश्‍वविद्यालय दिल्ली
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University Delhi
Established by The Government of NCT of Delhi

• Ph.D - Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
• M. Phil: Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
• MA: Anthropology, University of Madras, India

• Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University Delhi: Professor (Nov 2015 – till date)
• Indian Institute of Public Health Gandhinagar-University (PHFI): Additional Professor (Aug 2008 – Nov 2015)
• UNICEF Mumbai: Full time Consultant (Jan 2007 – Aug 2008)
• Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai: Assistant Professor (Sep 1998 – Jan 2007)

• Public Health, Health Social Sciences, Health Equity, Child Health & Nutrition, Health System, Ethnography, Qualitative Research

• ICSSR research methodology grant
• 4^th Global symposium on Health Systems Research Fellowship for presentation in Vancouver, Canada
• 3^rd Global Symposium on Health Systems Research Fellowship for presentation in Cape Town, South Africa
• PHFI-Wellcome Trust Research fellowship (PI)
• Faculty Exchange Visit Grants on strengthening higher education - LSHTM 2013; Univ Leeds & LSHTM - May, 2014 (PHFI-UK consortium); Boston Univ Sch PH May-June 2009.
• ICMR Research Grants (PI)
• DST Research Grant (Co-PI)
• ICMR Symposium Grants
• TISS - Board of Research Studies Grant (PI)
• TISS - Centre for Health Studies Grant (PI)
• UGC-JRF Fellowship
• Gold medalist in University of Madras in MA (Anthropology)

Published books / chapters / teaching modules

• N. Nakkeeran, “Approaches to Study Health”, Module as a part of MOOC on Health and Wellbeing, 2024
• N. Nakkeeran, “Multiple Personas of Social Scientists in Public Health: Challenges in interdisciplinarity”, in Babu. P. Remesh and  Ratheesh Kumar (eds.) Practicing Interdisciplinarity: Convergences and Contestations, Routledge, New York, 2024, 262-268
• N. Nakkeeran, Computerised Analysis of Ethnographic Data: Process, Strengths and Challenges” in Urfat Anjem, PC Joshi and Oinam Hemlata (eds.) Ethnography and Field work: Foundations of Qualitative Research, The Readers Paradise: New Delhi  2024, 89-110
• N. Nakkeeran, “Exploring the Field – Research Cycles in Qualitative Approach”, E-Pathshala, Methodology of Research in Sociology / Sociology (RMS-24)  https://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/Home/ViewSubject?catid=33 (2015)
• N. Nakkeeran, “Integration of Ayush Systems of Medicine with Modern Health System in Primary Health Centres: Efforts, Problems and Prospects”, in Siva Raju et al (eds.) Primary Health Centres in Rural Health Vol.2¸ B.R. Publications, Delhi,2013, p.334-369 ISBN: 9789350500736
• N. Nakkeeran, “Pesticide Use and Female Agricultural Labourers: A Review”. In Indu Grover and Pushpita Das (eds.) Gender Analysis in Agriculture, Grass root realities, Supriya Books: New Delhi, 2011, p.213-33 ISBN : 9788190914314
• N. Nakkeeran & CAK Yesudian, Transfer of Home-based Newborn Care From SEARCH to Other Organisations: Process Documentation of the ANKUR Project, Society for Education, Action and Research in Community Health, Gadchiroli, India, 2007 (Co-authored with C.A.K Yesudian)

Select Papers in Academic Journals

• N. Nakkeeran, Emma Sacks, Prashanth N Srinivas, Anika Juneja, Rakhal Gaitonde, Surekha Garimella, Stephanie M Topp “Beyond behaviour as individual choice: A call to expand understandings around social science in health research”, Wellcome Open Research 2021.
• N. Nakkeeran, Jadhav S., Bhattacharya A., Gamit S., Mehta C., Purohit P., Patel R., and Doshi M., “Recasting Food: An Ethnographic Study on How Caste and Resource Inequality Perpetuate Social Disadvantage in India” Caste: A global Journal on Social Exclusion, 2020, 1 (1) pp. 1-16.
• N. Nakkeeran, and Nakkeeran, B., Disability, mental health, sexual orientation and gender identity: understanding health inequity through experience and difference. BMC Proceedings – Special issue Health Research Policy and Systems 2018, 16 (Suppl 1):97 (pp. 9-19) https://doi.org/10.1186/s12961-018-0366-1.
• S. Solanki-Parmar, N. Nakkeeran, R. Patel, P.S. Ganguly, V. Sodagar, and M. Doshi., Gender differences in post-stroke care giving: Findings from a study conducted in Gandhinagar district of Gujarat. eSocial Sciences and Humanities (eSSH) Special Issue: Health Inequities in India, 1(2) Summer 2018:17-32.
• Chaturvedi A., Nakkeeran N., Doshi M., Patel, R., Bhagwat S., Determinants of micronutrient fortified blended food (balbhog) consumption among children 6–35 months of age provided through the integrated child development services program in Gujarat, India, Indian Journal of Community Medicine, 43(2):97-101, 2018
• Biswamitra Sahu, Patricia Jeffery & N. Nakkeeran (2017) Barriers to higher education: commonalities and contrasts in the experiences of Hindu and Muslim young women in urban Bengaluru, Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 47:2, 177-191, DOI: 10.1080/03057925.2016.1220825 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03057925.2016.1220825 (1469-3623)
• Biswamitra Sahu, Patricia Jeffery, N. Nakkeeran “Contextualising women’s agency in marital negotiations: Muslim and Hindu women in Karnataka, India”, SAGE Open July-September 2016: 1–13, DOI: 10.1177/2158244016667450, http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/2158244016667450 (2158-2440)
• N. Nakkeeran, “Is sampling a misnomer in qualitative research” Sociological Bulletin, 65 (1), January - April 2016, pp. 40-49. (0038-0229)
• N. Nakkeeran, “Economic impact of HIV/AIDS on households – Book Review”, Sociological Bulletin, 64/1, 2015, pp.127-29 (0038-0229)
• N. Nakkeeran, A. Chaturvedi, S.Bhagwat, R. Sankar and R. Patel “Community perception and acceptance of micronutrient fortified complementary food in Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS), Gujarat, India” Indian Journal of Nutrition, 2/1, 2015.( 2395-2326)
• N. Nakkeeran, K.Sharma and Sanjay P. Zodpey, “Social and behavioural science teaching in medical and public health in India” South East Asian Journal of Medical Education, 7/2:6-10, 2013 (ISSN: 1905-7415)
• A. Chaturvedi, N. Nakkeeran, M Doshi, R. Patel and S.Bhagwat, “Capacity of frontline ICDS functionaries to support caregivers on infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices in Gujarat, India” Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition 2013;23(Suppl)S29-S37(0964-7058)
• N. Nakkeeran, “Poor Methodology” September 15, 2012 Vol. XLVII no37 PP.4 Economic & Political Weekly (ISSN 0012-9976)
• N. Nakkeeran, “Unregulated Private Health Care in India: The Case of Kolkata Hospital Fire”,  Indian Journal of Public Health, 56/2:246-7, 2012 (ISSN: 0019-557X)
• N. Nakkeeran, Zodpey, SP “Qualitative research in applied situations: Strategies to ensure rigor and validity”. Indian Journal of Public Health 2012;56:4-11 (ISSN: 0019-557X) (Fulltext)
• N. Nakkeeran, “Knowledge, Truth and Social Reality: An Introductory Note on Qualitative Research”, Indian Journal of Community Medicine 35/3: 379-81 July 2010 (ISSN: 0970-0218) (Fulltext)
• N. Nakkeeran, “Qualitative Research Methodology: Epistemological Foundation and Research Procedures”, Indian Journal of Social Work 67/1&2:104-118, January-April 2006 (ISSN: 0019-5634)
• N. Nakkeeran, “Conditions of Women's Work, Status and Fertility: Land, Caste and Gender in a South Indian Village”, Economic and Political Weekly, 38 /37: 3931-39, 13th Sep 2003.(ISSN: 0012-9976)
• N. Nakkeeran, “Fractured Civilization: Caste Society in the Throes of Change – Book Review”, Indian Journal of Social Work 2002, 63(1): 129-33 (ISSN: 0019-5634)
• N. Nakkeeran, “The Living Graves of Dhanbad Mines, Labour File: Labour 2000, 7(2-5): 42-45. (ISSN: 0972-673X)
• N. Nakkeeran, “Widows in India: Social Neglect and Public Action – Book Review”, Indian Journal of Social Work, 2000, 61(1): pp. 121-23 (ISSN: 0019-5634)

• N. Nakkeeran, “Anonymization across research contexts”, as a part of a Panel Discussion on What is Ethical Research, Organised by CRM & Research and Consultancy Division, AUD, 12 Dec 2020.
• N. Nakkeeran, Nutrition, Nation and Democracy. Presented in International conference on “Critical Public Health Consequences of Double Burden of Malnutrition and the Changing Food Environment in South and South-East Asia”, New Delhi 28^th - 30^th March 2018
• P. S. Ganguly, N. Nakkeeran, Heena Patel, Khushi Kansara, Minal Doshi, Corporal violence or liberated bodies: Reimagining body after hysterectomy, in Fourth Global Symposium on Health Systems Research Vancouver, BC, Canada, 14-18 Nov 2016
• N. Nakkeeran, “Social Determinants and Social Determination” National Symposium on Social Determinants of Health’ organised under ARCADE-RSDH project, Indian Institute of Public Health Gandhinagar, Ahmedabad, 4-6 Nov 2015.
• Minal Doshi, N Nakkeeran, Sushrut Jadhav, Aruna Bhattacharya, “Exclusion from the Supplementary Nutrition Programme and village life: Lived experience of Dalit Women in a Gujarat village” in Third Global Symposium on Health Systems Research, Science and Practice of People-Centred Health Systems, Cape Town SA, 30^rd Sep – 3^rd Oct 2014
• N. Nakkeeran, Rajesh Khanna, Rajiv Tandon, Dileep Mavalankar, Ruchi Patel “Enablers and barriers in scaling up of the Home Based Newborn Care programme in a Southern state of India” in Third Global Symposium on Health Systems Research, Science and Practice of People-centred Health Systems, Cape Town SA, 30^rd Sep – 3^rd Oct 2014 (poster)
• N. Nakkeeran, A. Chaturvedi, S. Bhagwat, R. Sankar, R. Patel “Community perception and acceptance of micronutrient fortified complementary food in integrated child Development services, Gujarat, India” in South Asia Conference on Policies and Practices to Improve Nutrition Security 30-31 July 2014, New Delhi (poster)
• N. Nakkeeran, Ganguly, PS., Solanki, S., Patel, R.,"Indignity and illness: A study on coping with post-stroke disability among geriatric population of Gandhinagar district, Gujarat" in the International Symposium: Evidence in Global Disability and Health on 22nd - 23rd February, 2014 at Hyderabad. (poster)
• M. Doshi, N. Nakkeeran, S., Jadhav, A., Bhattacharya, Exclusion from the supplementary nutrition programme (SNP) and village life: Experiences of ‘Dalit’ women in a village of Gujarat, The XIV National conference (IAWS) on Equality, Pluralism and the State: Perspectives from the Women’s Movement from 4-7 February, 2014 at Guwahati, Assam
• KR Kansara, PS Ganguly, N Nakkeeran, Inequity in reproductive health and contraceptive behaviour among women in Gujarat- A Cross Sectional Study, presented in International Conference on Inequity and Maternal and Child Health: Situations and Solutions, 30 Nov – 1^st Dec 2013, Ahmedabad (poster).
• N. Nakkeeran, Jadhav, S., Bhattacharya, A., Doshi, M., Gamit, S., Mehta, C., Purohit, P & Patel, R “Exclusion and self-exclusion from supplementary nutrition program: short ethnographies from Gujarat state” Presentation made at WTP Annual Meeting, New Delhi, 17 Jan 2013
• N. Nakkeeran, Jadav S, Bhattacharya A. Exclusion and self-exclusion for supplementary Nutrition Program: Short ethnographies of selected villages in Gujarat: poster presented at the PHFI-UKC Wellcome Trust Capacity Building Programme (WTP) Annual Meeting, New Delhi, March 2012
• N. Nakkeeran, Jadhav, S., Bhattacharya, A., Doshi, M., Gamit, S., Purohit, P & Patel, R." Exclusion and self-exclusion from Supplementary Nutrition Programme: Brief focused ethnographies from selected villages of Gujarat", poster presented at Symposium on Lessons for Global Health from India at University College London  organized by UCL Interdisciplinary Society for International Development, the UCL Grand Challenge of Global Health and UCL Public Policy, 20 June 2012,  London, United Kingdom.
• N.Nakkeeran, Health Status of Dalits in the country: An Analysis of NSS and NFHS data, National Seminar Organised by Institute of Human Development, 8-9 December 2006
• N.Nakkeeran, “Treating Caste as a Quantitative Variable in Health Studies”, Second National Conference on Globalization and Health Equity” Organized by Indian Association of Social Sciences and Health, 04-05 Feb 2005.
• N.Nakkeeran, “Health Status of Dalits – Review of existing data” in Workshop on Preparation of Dalit Development Report, Institute for Human Development jointly with National Conference of Dalits and Heinrich Bol Foundation, 20 Nov 2004
• N.Nakkeeran, Inequity in Health: An Analysis of Health Policy Documents and the State of Public Health in India, First Conference of Indian Association of Social Sciences in Health, Tirupathi. 14-15, Nov 2003
• N.Nakkeeran, Representing the Unseen: Symbolism in South Indian Folk Healing", in Seminar on Health and Society, Organised by Department of Sociology, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, 5-6^th March 2003.
• N.Nakkeeran, Impact of Globalisation on Medical Education, in Seminar on Privatisation of Education: Prospects and Challenges, Organised by The Department of Social Dynamics, St. Joseph’s College, Tiruchirappalli, 13^th March 2002
• N.Nakkeeran, Integration of Traditional Systems of Medicine with Modern Health Care Services", at the National Workshop on Primary Health Care in India: Status, Challenges and Prospects, organised by Working Group on Primary Health Care, Centre for Health Studies, TISS, Mumbai, 15-16^th Oct, 2001

Funded Research

• Need Assessment on Demand for Tertiary Education in National Capital Territory Area of Delhi (PI)
• African/Asian Regional Capacity Development - Research on Social Determinants of Health, with Karolinska University, EU (Co-I)
• Indignity and illness: A study on coping with post-stroke disabilities among geriatric population of Gandhinagar district, Gujarat. ICMR (PI)
• Contraceptive use and occurrence of hysterectomy: A Case-control study”, DST(Co-I)
• Exclusion and Self-Exclusion from Supplementary Nutrition Program: Short Ethnographies from Selected Villages of Gujarat”. Funded under PHFI-UKC Wellcome Trust Capacity Building Programme Research Grants; PI (2011)
• Supportive supervising for rollout of state level anganwadi workers training in Gujarat, Dept. of Women and Child Development, Government of Gujarat. (PI)
• Scaling up efforts of SEARCH’s Home Based Newborn Care activities in Karnataka & Andhra Pradesh (Two Case Studies). Funded by Save the Children India (Report submitted) (PI)
• Evaluation of Nutrition Mission Project in Bavla and Barvala blocks of Ahmedabad district established by Zilla Panchayat. Funded by ZP Ahmedabad (Report submitted) (PI)
• Positive enquiry of ICDS initiatives in Gujarat, Funded by Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, Co-I (2011)
• Adolescent Girls in Maharashtra - Situation and Needs: A KAP survey under Barclays funded Adolescent Girls Programme. Funded by UNICEF Maharashtra, PI. (2009-10)
• Study of sustainability and costing of Link Anti-Retroviral Treatment Centres in Gujarat. Funded by Gujarat AIDS Control Society, Co-I (2008)
• KCCI International Summer Internship Programme for UNICEF Gujarat. (2009)(PI)
• Process Documentation of Community Change Surrounding Home-Based Neonatal Care (Funded by SNL-Save the Children through SEARCH). Duration – 2 years (Co-I)
• Evaluation of NGOs under World Bank assisted cataract blindness control project in the states of Tamilnadu, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra (Funded by MOHFW, Government of India) Co-I
• Conditions of women's work, reproductive wastage and birth: a study of south Indian village (Funded by Tata Institute of Social Sciences) (PI)