Rakhi Ghoshal ([email protected])

Rakhi is trained in the social sciences; she did her doctoral dissertation in Cultural Studies (Bangalore) and completed a postgraduate diploma course in bioethics and medical ethics (Yenepoya deemed-to-be University). She received the post-doctoral award from the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla, India.

She started her professional career as a researcher and undertook a qualitative study to understand perceptions and practices of ‘ethics’ among obstetric care providers in India. On a later project, she worked with King’s College London to study how legislations and market forces combine with social norms and individual level choices in the commercial surrogacy industry in India — this was prior to commercial surrogacy being legally banned in 2015.

After a not-so-happy stint at teaching at a private university, Rakhi took up a job with an international NGO, CARE (India) to lead a project aimed at strengthening the health systems response to violence against women (VAW) in a state in India with one of the highest burdens of VAW. Upon completion of this project, she led CARE India’s portfolio of Gender Transformative Programming, and currently heads the gender-based violence (GBV) global portfolio at CARE (USA). She is very glad to be able to work remotely, from home, since she is a single parent to a young daughter.

Rakhi has been associated with the IJME — in different capacities — since 2012, and continues to learn from some of the amazing submissions the journal gets.