Health Inequities in Conflict-affected Areas

Dr. Samrat Sinha is a Professor at the Jindal School of International Affairs (JSIA), O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU), India. He is the Executive Director of the Centre for Border Studies- a research centre within JSIA. He has earlier taught at the Jamsteji Tata Centre for Disaster Management (JTCDM), Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai. He has been collaborating with civil society organizations in the Bodoland Territorial Region (BTR), Assam since 2012. He has been involved in conducting humanitarian assessments, applied research and peace-building projects in the region. At JSIA, he teaches courses on Peacebuilding, Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief. He, in collaboration with the ant and NERSWN, also teaches an immersive field-based course on community development in the Indo-Bhutan borderland regions. His publications include books and research papers in the fields of peacebuilding, conflict and health. He holds a Ph.D. and a Masters Degree inPolitical Science and International Relations from the University of Delaware, USA. He also has a Masters in Politics (International Studies) from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi and an undergraduate degree in History from the University of Delhi. Jennifer Liang completed her Masters in Social Work from Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, and has since been working in the area of health, organisational development and women’s issues. She is Program Lead and Trainer at IDeA—the Institute of Development Action—and Consultant to the Paul Hamlyn Foundation (UK). She is a co-founder of the Action Northeast Trust (the ant), a non-profit working on rural development in Bodoland Territorial Region (BTR), Assam, since the year 2000. She has also served on the boards of various development organisations in the Northeast region of India. She was awarded the United Kingdom’s Chevening Gurukul Scholarship in 2013. She was also selected as one of 50 emerging women leaders in 2014 by the Women in Public Service Project, an initiative of the U.S. State Department. She directs her academic and social change activities in the following themes: gender equality, the development and rights of children, peacebuilding and organization development.

1. Health Services in Conflict and Fragile Contexts: Implications for South Asia.- 2. Health Inequity, Conflict and Peace in the Northeast India.- 3. The Struggle for Identity, Onset of Violence in (for) Bodoland and Meanings of Autonomy.- 4. Violent Borderlands and Health Systems Collapse: Narratives from Deosri.- 5. Filling the Void? New Humanitarian Actors, Conflict Response and the Perils of Humanitarian Exit.- 6. Pathways to Peace and Biographies of Reconstruction.