Qualifications

• M.A. (Psychology), University of Allahabad
• D.Phil., University of Allahabad

Areas of Interest

• HIV and AIDS
• Social psychology of people living with HIV/AIDS
• Individual, family and community responses to HIV/AIDS
• The Gender dimension of HIV/AIDS
• AIDS Intervention and policy planning, HIV and the care economy
• AIDS related discrimination and stigmatisation
• Human rights and HIV/AIDS
• Gender, Health and Sexuality
• Social and gender dimensions of sexuality and sexual health
• Reproductive health
• Family context of health, sexual health and sexuality, care and support
• Family socialisation for sexual and gender roles
• Child Adoption
• Social psychology of child adoption: early development patterns, socio-psychological and intellectual development, adolescent adoptees.
• Adoptive family life: Patterns of adjustment, early parent-child relationship, child socialisation patterns, and issues in sharing the fact of adoption.
• Adoption as a child welfare service
• Coordination and networking in adoption work
• Women, Work and Family
• Gender role perceptions and attitudes
• Family dynamics and decision making
• Distribution of household labour and resources

Research

• AIDS Stigma, Gender and Health in Urban India. Sponsored by NIH, Washington, USA (In collaboration with UCSF, US and NIMHANS, India- August, 2005)
• Demographic Transition among the Parsis of India: A Study of the Familial, Marital and Socio-Psychological Dimensions . Sponsored by UNESCO/PARZOR (Ongoing Project).
• The Burden of Unwanted Pregnancies: A Community-based Study . Sponsored by the Board of Research Studies, TISS (Completed in 2004).
• Social Assessment of Reproductive and Child Health Programme: A Study in 5 Indian States — Assam, Haryana, Maharashtra, Orissa and Uttaranchal (Overall Report). Sponsored by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and DFID, New Delhi (Completed in 2003).
• South Asia Political Advocacy Project: The Indian Data Base on HIV/AIDS (Behavioural Dimensions) . Sponsored by UNAIDS-South Asia Inter-Country Team, New Delhi (Completed in 2003).
• Child Adoption in Mumbai: A Study of Profiles and Trends in the 90s . Sponsored by the Board of Research Studies, TISS (Completed in 2002).
• India : HIV and AIDS-related Discrimination, Stigmatisation and Denial, UNAIDS, Geneva . Sponsored by UNAIDS Best Practice Collection/ Key Material. Completed in 2001).
• Facing the Challenge: Household and Community Response to HIV/AIDS in Mumbai, India . Sponsored by UNAIDS, Geneva (Completed in 1996).

Training

• Training workshop on Ethics in Social Science Research in Health.
• National Workshop: An Orientation to Child Adoption: Philosophy, Practice, Issues and Current Trends, sponsored by CARA, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, TISS: Mumbai.
• Annual CARA workshop for VCAs and Placement Agencies at New Delhi, organised by CARA, New Delhi.

Recent/Significant Publications

• Racism and HIV/AIDS. In K. Boyle (Ed.) Dimensions of Racism, Geneva: OHCHR. (In press)
• Capacity building for Research on Sexual Behaviour and Sexuality: The Indian Experience. In G. Herdt, di Mauro, R. Parker (Eds.), Handbook of Sexuality Research Training Initiatives, New York: Social Science Research Council, 2003.
• Community Responses to HIV/AIDS in Mumbai City. In S. Panda, A. Chatterjee, and A.S. Abdul–Quader (Eds.), Living with the AIDS Virus: The Epidemic and the Response in India, New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2002.
• Women, Work and Family in Urban India: Towards New Families? In J.W. Berry, R.C. Mishra and R.C. (Eds.), Psychology in Human and Social Development, New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2002.
• Which Way to Turn? Inadequacies in the Health Care System in India, Journal of Health Management, 3(1), 85–125, 2001. (Co-author)
• Perception of AIDS in Mumbai: A Study of Low Income Communities, Psychology and Developing Societies, 12(1), 43-65, 2001
• Beyond Joint and Nuclear: The Indian Family Revisited, Journal of Comparative Family Studies, 32(2), 167–194, 2001. (Co-author)
• Towards Methodologies Rigour in the Study of the Family: Problems and Prospects, Psychology and Developing Societies, 13(1), 71-91, 2001. (Co-author)
• On the Periphery: Psychology of Gender. In J. Pandey (Ed.), Psychology in India Revisited: Development in the Discipline, Vol. 3, (ICSSR Decade Review in Psychology), New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2000.