Epidemiology & Public Health

Ankita Shah is a doctoral research scholar at Indian Institute of Technology- Gandhinagar, India. Her doctoral research work is centered around evaluation of health literacy interventions in resource poor settings. She has Masters in Public Health (MPH) degree with majors in Social Epidemiology from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai.She has experience of designing and carrying out public health research in community settings in resource poor urban and rural areas in India. Her previous researchincludes health behavior research as well as assessment of prevalence and social determinants of child health and nutiriton.

She has presented her research work at various  conferences. She has 4 years of experience working with the government and non-governmental organztion on planning, implementation and monitoring of public health programs in urban and rural areas. She has developed grant proposals and has co-taught public health nutrition course to post-graduate students.