DR. VIMLA V. NADKARNI
Professor and Dean

SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK

E-mail: vimla@tiss.edu

Qualifications

• B.A. (Hons.) (Psychology), University of Mumbai
• Bachelor of General Law, University of Mumbai
• M.A. (Social Work), TISS
• Ph.D. (Social Work), TISS

Areas of Interest

• Community Health
• HIV/AIDS Policy and Interventions
• Reproductive Health
• Integrated Social Work Practice
• Health Ethics and Human Rights
• Ecology and Health
• Field Instruction and Social Work Education
• Health Management
• Monitoring and Evaluation of Programmes
• Programme Development
• Health Research

Teaching

• Health and Development
• Seminar on Health Issues
• Health Management
• Health Communication
• Social Casework
• Field Instruction in Social Work Education

Research

• Review of HIV/AIDS Research in the Social Sciences, sponsored by Centre for Health Studies, TISS (February 2000-December 2001).
• Needs Assessment for Capacity-Building in HIV/AIDS Counselling in Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka, sponsored by Family Health International, Bangkok, 2000-2001.
• A Situational and Needs Assessment of Child-Headed Households and Community Foster Care in the Context of HIV/AIDS, sponsored by India AIDS Alliance, 2005 (ongoing)

Field Action Projects

• Integrated Health and Development Project in Shahpur Taluka, Thane District (1986).
• Action Group on Drug Abuse (1986‑1991).
• Development of Integrated Community‑Based Approach to Drug Abuse Demand Reduction with focus on the Community‑Level Worker (1992‑1995).
• Cell for AIDS Research Action and Training sponsored by the Ford Foundation (April 1993-2001).
• Chairperson, Technical Resource Group for HIV/AIDS Counseling, sponsored by NACO and UNAIDS (1999-2001).

Books/Monographs

• Intervention in Issues of Pollution Utilising Integrated Social Work Practice, Mumbai: TISS, 1997.
• (Co-author) HIV/AIDS in India: An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Studies (1990-2000), New Delhi: Creating Resources for Empowerment in Action (CREA), 2003 (Monograph and CD).
• (Co-author). HIV/AIDS in India, Critical Review Papers, The Gender and Reproductive Health Research Initiative Mapping a Decade of Reproductive Health Research in India (1990-2000), New Delhi: CREA, 2003 (Monograph and CD).

Articles

Been publishing articles since 1986 on a range of subjects including community health, mental health, ecology and health, etc. Some illustrations are:

• Ecosystems Perspective of Mental Health. In P. Mane and K. Gandevia (Eds.), Mental Health in India: Issue and Concerns, Bombay: Tata Institute of Social Sciences, 1993, pp. 246‑258.
• Dynamics of Families Facing Environmental Disasters and Interventions. In M. Desai (Ed.), Family and Interventions: A Course Compendium, Bombay: Tata Institute of Social Sciences, 1994.
• Ecological Policy and the Family. In Enhancing the Role of the Family as an Agency for Social and Economic Development, Bombay: TISS, in collaboration with Ministry of Welfare, Government of India and UNICEF, 1994.
• Co-author. India. In T. Brown and others (Eds.), Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Asia and the Pacific, Venereology Publishing Inc., 1998, pp. 114-137.
• Integration of STI/HIV/AIDS in Family Planning Services: The FPAI Experience, Journal of Family Welfare, 48(1&2), 2002.

Additional Relevant Information

Previous Positions Held

• Secretary-General, Family Planning Association of India (2001-2002 on lien)
• Lecturer (1976-1984), College of Social Work, Nirmala Niketan (affiliated to University of Bombay).
• Medico-Social Worker (attached to the Orthopedic Centre and Department of Plastic Surgery) (1973-1976), King Edward Memorial Hospital, Bombay.
• Medico-Social Worker (attached to the Department of Neurology) (1971-1973), King Edward Memorial Hospital, Bombay.

Executive Position In Other Organisations

• Member, Joint Working Group, Indo-US Collaboration on Contraception and Reproductive Health Research (2001 till date)
• Member, Board of Directors, Niramaya Health Foundation (March 2004 onwards)
• Member, CONRAD/ICMR Steering Group on Microbicides Development (2004)
• Member, Steering Group, Global Campaign on Microbicides, USA (December 2004-2006)
• Member, Academic Council, International Institute of Population Sciences (Jan 2005-2006)
• Member, Board of Studies and Research, International Institute of Population Sciences (2005-2007)
• Member, 33rd Scientific Advisory Committee, Tuberculosis Research Centre, Indian Council of Medical Research (2005)

Fellowships Received

• Kellogg Foundation Fellow 1994: to participate in the programme on ‘Health in the Community’, at Salzburg in May 1994.
• Fulbright Fellow 1995: to participate in the East‑West Centre Population Seminar on Strengthening Multi‑Sectoral Responses to HIV/AIDS.
• 21st Century Fellowship to participate in the 21st Century Trust and Cumberland Lodge sponsored conference on ‘The Battle against HIV/AIDS: Thinking Further Ahead’, UK.

Coordination of International Events

Co-Coordinated the Indo-US Workshop on Reproductive Health Research, sponsored by the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, U.S.A., under the Indo-US Contraceptive and Reproductive Health Research Initiative (the JWG), October 25-29, 2004, at TISS