Rakhi Ghoshal ([email protected])

Rakhi Ghoshal (PhD, Cultural Studies; PG Diploma, Bioethics and Medical Ethics) works at the intersections of gender, health, violence, ethics and social inequities. Trained as a qualitative researcher, she has spent the past decade in the development sector, leading programmes on gender, violence and health, undertaking evaluations, and developing evidence and knowledge products across development and fragile settings. Following eight years with an international NGO, where she most recently led its global portfolio on gender-based violence, Rakhi returned to field-based health research and practice: she currently works closely with a health-focused NGO serving rural and tribal communities in eastern India, contributing to research on palliative and primary healthcare and strengthening capacities of frontline and primary healthcare providers.

Rakhi remains engaged with research and academia as a doctoral co-supervisor at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, and through her publications. Across these roles, she is particularly interested in bringing social science perspectives to health and healthcare, and in understanding how gender, power and structural inequities shape people’s experiences of health systems. Rakhi has been associated with the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics since 2012 and values the journal as a space for critical, interdisciplinary conversations on medicine, public health, ethics and social justice.