Biography
Dr. Madhurima Shukla is currently an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Health and Social Sciences, School of Health Systems Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India. Her research interest is broadly in the areas of public health and sociology and her research work focuses on inter-disciplinary studies of social, economic and health inequalities, social determinants of health, health policy analysis, health systems research and political economy of health. She completed her doctoral studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India. Her doctoral research was titled – “ An Analytical Study Of The Polio Eradication Experience In India, With Special Focus On Uttar Pradesh”. Her doctoral work documented the struggles of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) and its repeated failures with a context-rich case study of India. The research work provides an insight into why the global drive to extinct poliovirus faced setbacks for over two decades in the WHO South-East Asia Region (SEARO). She has presented and published her research work at international and national conferences on issues of unmet need for access to safe abortion services to women in India, global threat of vaccine hesitancy, the relevance of social determinants in health to address tuberculosis infectious disease and Covid 19 pandemic. She was Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) exchange fellow for – “A New Passage to India Program” at Universitat Bielefeld, Germany in 2015 and predoctoral Fox International Fellow at Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International & Area Studies, Yale University, USA in 2018-2019. She is was awarded best masters student in social work, health & development specialization at Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India. She was also awarded doctoral government of India research fellowship.