Krishna Soman, Associate Professor of Public Health
A public health scientist, Dr. Soman received formal training in both the sciences of human biology and social change. She has adopted the approach of political economy in order to understand the social dynamics of people's health or ill health. She has widened her theoretical perspectives and strengthened her ties with the immediate social environment by conducting fieldwork and implementing work programmes. She obtained M.Phil and Ph.D from the Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
While engaged in research she attempts to take a periphery-centre and bottom-up view and tries to link 'people' with 'policy-planning' in health and development. She has been working for a long time as a researcher and teacher in the areas of women's health, health services development, environmental health and nutrition. She has cooperated with governmental and other organisations at the state and national levels and worked as consultant to bilateral and multilateral agencies like DFID,WWF and UNICEF engaged in the promotion of health and social development. She was a Fellow of the World Health Organisation.
She has published articles in volumes edited by UNEP-TERI (Domestic Environment and Health of Women and Children) and Manohar (Planning for Women's Health: The Indian Experience). Her papers have also appeared in Economic and Political Weekly, Social Action, Indian Journal of Gender Studies and other publications. Besides, she is associated with organisational attempts whose aim is to demystify health research for the marginalized and bring their issues/concerns to the fore.
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