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Sanghamitra Sheel Acharya

Sanghamitra Sheel Acharya

Sanghamitra Sheel Acharya
Sanghamitra Sheel Acharya
Professor
Centre/School/Special Centre
Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health,
School of Social Sciences
Room No
225
Off. Phone
011-26704433 / 20
Residence
011-26742411,09810547096
Email
sanghamitra@mail.jnu.ac.in ; sanghmitra.acharya@gmail.com
Personal Webpage
http://www.jnu.ac.in/Faculty/sanghamitra/cv.pdf
Qualifications

MA, MPhil, Ph D (JNU); PG Diploma in Population and Sustainable Development (University of Botswana, Gabarone, Botswana (Southern Africa)

Areas of Interest/Specialization

Environment and resource utilization; Urbanization and urban health; Gender and morbidity; Youth and elderly; discrimination and exclusion in health care  

Experience

Teaching-
* Lecturer (1990-1996). Department of Development Studies, International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai.
* Assistant Professor, (1999-2001) Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
* Associate Professor, (2001- 2008)
* Professor, (2009-till date)
* Visiting Fellow, ( April-Dec 2005) University of the Philippines Population Institute Population Institute (UPPI), University of the Philippines, Quezon City Manila, The Philippines.
* Adjunct Associate Professor, (2008- 09) Department of Sociology, College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Ball State University, Muncie, INDIANA US

Research-
* Maternal and child health issues in Nirpura village of Meerut District in Uttar Pradesh.
* Gender issues in a Development Block of Indore District in Madhya Pradesh.
* Environment and development issues in Okavango Delta region in Northern Botswana (Southern Africa).
* Issues related to health care delivery system and conventional contraceptive in rural areas of Dehradun and Jaunpur districts of Uttar Pradesh.
* Issues related to reproductive morbidity and adolescent health in rural areas of Uttaranchal and Uttar Pradesh.
* Social Assessment of Reproductive and Child Health (RCH) in Kalsi Block of Dehradun District, Uttraranchal. 
* Health and Sexuality among youth in the Philippines; Indiana, US
* Public health issues and concerns in selected districts of India (Sonipat, Mathura, Udaipur, Meerut, Ahmedabad and Dehradun); Botswana (Gabarone); The Philippines (Central Luzon); the US (Muncie, Indiana) and Beijing (China).

Summary Report of UGC Project

Awards & Honours

1. Indo-China Cultural Exchange Fellow, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, 2012
2. Adjunct Faculty, Ball State University, Muncie, INDIANA during 2008-09
3. Asian Scholarship Foundation (ASF) Fellowship 2005.
4. Summer Seminar Workshop on Communicating Health and Population Research to Policymakers at the East West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, May-June 2003
5. UNFPA Fellowship for Global Training Programme on Population and Sustainable Development, University of Botswana, Gaborone, BOTSWANA, (Southern Africa), 1995-96.
6. Junior/Senior Research Fellowship, National Educational Test (NET), University Grants Commission, 1985.

International Collaboration/Consultancy

NONE

Best Peer Reviewed Publications

1. ‘Urban Environment: Growing Ecological Concern’ in KB Pathak, UP Sinha and Arvind Pandey (eds.) Dynamics of Population and Family Welfare, 1993. Himalaya Publishing House Bombay 1994.pp 187-202
2. ‘Caste and patterns of Discrimination in Rural Public Health Care Services’ in Blocked by Caste- Economic Discrimination and Social Exclusion in Modern India (eds) Sukhdeo Thorat and Katherine S Newman. Delhi Oxford University press. 2010 pp 208-229
3. Inequities in Access to Health Services in India: Caste, Class and Region (co-authored with Rama Baru , Arnab Acharya , A K Shiva Kumar , K Nagaraj Economic and Political Weekly Issue : VOL 45 No. 38 September 18 - September 24, 2010
4. Financing Health-Some Issues and Concerns for Mother and Child in Satyajeet Nanda (Ed) Health Care Communication and Services for Mother and Child, Konark Publishers, New Delhi, 2011.
5. ‘Social Discrimination and Access to Health Care- A Study of Dalit Children in Western India’ in Chaudhury, Sukant K (Ed.) Ambedkar and Future of Dalits. Serial Publications. New Delhi 2013 

Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books

1. Conceptualizing Social Discrimination in Access to Health Services towards Measurement- Illustrating Evidences from Villages in Western India. Indian Emergency Journal Vol VI (II). September, 2011, pp 14-27
2. Solid Waste Management Initiatives and Public Health – Exploring the Issues in Solan, Himachal Pradesh, India (co-authored with Jagdev C Sharma) Annals of Rajasthan Geographical Association. Vol XXIX 2012 pp 72-87
3. Public Health in North-East India- Regional Development and Socio Demographic Dimensions, Academic Publications, New Delhi 2013

A warm welcome to the modified and updated website of the Centre for East Asian Studies. The East Asian region has been at the forefront of several path-breaking changes since 1970s beginning with the redefining the development architecture with its State-led development model besides emerging as a major region in the global politics and a key hub of the sophisticated technologies. The Centre is one of the thirteen Centres of the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi that provides a holistic understanding of the region.

Initially, established as a Centre for Chinese and Japanese Studies, it subsequently grew to include Korean Studies as well. At present there are eight faculty members in the Centre. Several distinguished faculty who have now retired include the late Prof. Gargi Dutt, Prof. P.A.N. Murthy, Prof. G.P. Deshpande, Dr. Nranarayan Das, Prof. R.R. Krishnan and Prof. K.V. Kesavan. Besides, Dr. Madhu Bhalla served at the Centre in Chinese Studies Programme during 1994-2006. In addition, Ms. Kamlesh Jain and Dr. M. M. Kunju served the Centre as the Documentation Officers in Chinese and Japanese Studies respectively.

The academic curriculum covers both modern and contemporary facets of East Asia as each scholar specializes in an area of his/her interest in the region. The integrated course involves two semesters of classes at the M. Phil programme and a dissertation for the M. Phil and a thesis for Ph. D programme respectively. The central objective is to impart an interdisciplinary knowledge and understanding of history, foreign policy, government and politics, society and culture and political economy of the respective areas. Students can explore new and emerging themes such as East Asian regionalism, the evolving East Asian Community, the rise of China, resurgence of Japan and the prospects for reunification of the Korean peninsula. Additionally, the Centre lays great emphasis on the building of language skills. The background of scholars includes mostly from the social science disciplines; History, Political Science, Economics, Sociology, International Relations and language.

Several students of the centre have been recipients of prestigious research fellowships awarded by Japan Foundation, Mombusho (Ministry of Education, Government of Japan), Saburo Okita Memorial Fellowship, Nippon Foundation, Korea Foundation, Nehru Memorial Fellowship, and Fellowship from the Chinese and Taiwanese Governments. Besides, students from Japan receive fellowship from the Indian Council of Cultural Relations.