Arima Mishra

Arima Mishra

Professor of Medical Anthropology and Public Health, School of Development, Azim Premji University, Bangalore, India, arima.mishra@apu.edu.in, Tel: 91 9740380808

Educational Qualifications

Ph. D (2000) in Sociology, from the Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, India

Employment History

2017 onwards – Professor, Azim Premji University, Bangalore, India

2013 -2017 Associate Professor, Azim Premji University, Bangalore, India

2011-2013 – Faculty, Institute of Public Health, Bangalore India

2010-2011 – Senior Researcher (HELVAC), SUM, University of Oslo, Norway

2004-2010 – Faculty, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, India

2000-2004- Social Scientist, IC-Health, New Delhi

Research projects

-Being at the frontline of COVID 19: Stories of grassroots health care workers in India

- Equitable access to health care in urban India

Recently concluded

Examining the role of professional medical associations in health policy making: A cross country comparison in India and USA, (a collaborative project with University of Chicago, USA), 2018-2019

Exploring health vulnerability among women garment workers in Bangalore, India (Azim Premji University with Department of Social Welfare, Government of Karnataka) 2018-2019

Exploring factors affecting maternal health in Assam: An ethnographic study (Azim Premji University) 2016-2017

Policy lessons of and for revitalization of local health traditions: A health systems ethnography in three states in India (Azim Premji University) 2015-2017

Select Publications

Books

Arima Mishra ed. Local health traditions: Plurality and marginality in South Asia. Delhi: Orient BlackSwan 2019

Ethics in public health practice in India (co-ed with K. Subbiah), Springer Nature, 2018

Arima Mishra and Suhita C Chatterjee [eds] Multiple voices and stories: Narratives of health and illness, Delhi: Orient BlackSwan 2013

Arima Mishra ed. Health, illness, and medicine: Ethnographic readings, Delhi: Orient BlackSwan 2010

Journal articles

Arima Mishra, Maya Elias and Veena Sriram (2021) ‘A draconian law’: Navigation of coalition politics and policy reform by health provider associations in Karnataka, India, Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 46 (4): 703–730.

Adithya Pradyumna, Arima Mishra et al (2021) Health in Food Systems Policies in India: A Document Review, International Journal of Health Policy Management, x(x), 1–14

Adithya Pradyumna, Arima Mishra et al (2020) Perceived health impacts of watershed development projects in Southern India: A qualitative study, Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 17(10), 3448; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17103448

Arima Mishra, Bandewar Sunita, Gautham Sandhya Being at the frontline of COVID 19: Conversations with grassroots health care workers, Indian Journal of Medical Ethics, Blog 13, July 16, 2020

Devaki Nambiar and Arima Mishra (2020) ‘A light inside a pot’: Sites and sources of power emerging from an ethnography of traditional healing in South India, Global Public Health, 2019

Arima Mishra and Devaki Nambiar ‘On the unravelling of revitalization of local health traditions: an ethnographic inquiry, International Journal for Equity in Health, 2018, 17:175 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-018-0890-1

Arima Mishra, Devaki Nambiar and H. Madhavan, The making of local health traditions in India: Revitalization or marginalization? Economic and Political Weekly, 2018, Vol LIII (30)

Veena Sriram, S.Topp, Martha Scarf, Arima Mishra et al 10 best resources on power in health policy and systems research in low- and middle-income countries, Health policy and planning, 2018 1(11)

Sreeparna Chattopadhyay, Arima Mishra and Suraj Jacob Safe yet violent? Women’s experiences with obstetric violence during hospital births in north-east India, Culture, health, and sexuality, 2017 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2017.1384572

Arima Mishra and Shreelata Seshadri ‘Unpacking the discourse on universal health coverage in India, Social Medicine, 2015 9 (2)

Katerini Storeng and Arima Mishra Politics and practice of global health: Critical ethnographies of health systems Global Public Health Vol. 9 (8), 2014 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2014.941901

Trust and teamwork matter: Community health workers’ experiences in integrated service delivery, Global Public Health, Vol. 9 (8) DOI: 10.1080/17441692.2014.934877 2014

Upendra Bhojani, N. Devadasan, Arima Mishra et al Health system challenges in organizing quality diabetes care for urban poor in South India, PLOS One, 9(9): e106522. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0106522, 2014

Upendra Bhojani, Arima Mishra, S. Amrutha et al. Constraints faced by urban poor in managing diabetes care: perspectives from South India, Global Health Action, 6: 22258 http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/gha.v6i0.22258, 2013

Book chapters

2020 Listening to accounts of health and illness: What do narratives tell us? In S. Choudhury Lahiri ed. Doing Social Research: Qualitative methods in Sociology. Delhi: Orient Blackswan

2019 Katerini Storeng, Ruth Prince and Arima Mishra, The politics of health system strengthening In Routledge Handbook on the Politics of Global Health eds. Richard Parker and Jonathan Garcia New York: Routledge

2018 “Now we feel ethics is everywhere”: Reflections on teaching a course on ethics in public health practice in India, In A. Mishra and K. Subbiah eds Ethics in public health practice in India. Singapore: Springer

Bringing the ‘social’ back in: Social Determinants of health as a methodological lens, In D. Nambiar and A. Muralidharan eds. Social determinants of health: Concepts, theories and practice. Singapore: Springer Nature 2018

Arima Mishra and Sidsel Roalkvam The reproductive body and the state: Engaging with the National Rural Health Mission in tribal Odisha In Kenneth Bielsen and Anne Waldrop eds. Women, gender, and everyday social transformation in India. London: Anthem Press, 2014

Arima Mishra, Rune Flikke, Cecilia Nordfeldt and Lot Nyirenda ‘Immunization is good for your children: Local immunization practices in India and Malawi’ In Sidsel Roalkvam Suart Blume and Desmond McNeill (eds) Protecting the World’s Children: Immunization policies and practices. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2013