I am currently a PhD candidate within the Collaborative Research Center (SFB 1199 Project A05) on “Digital Governance and Re-spatialization of the Indian Nation-State”, which I joined in January 2021. I am an associated PhD candidate at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle
I am interested in the sub-discipline of medical anthropology, and my PhD project focuses on health governance in India, particularly nation-wide projects that fall under the ambit of Universal Health Coverage initiatives that mediate new health and well-being and technological futures. I am currently tracking digital health initiatives for hospital management, insurance management and disease surveillance in Puducherry and Tamil Nadu, India.
My recent work on Covid-19 databases and data trouble was published in the Medical Anthropology Theory Special Issue on Medical Diagnosis, Testing and Value: http://www.medanthrotheory.org/article/view/5105
