Samayita Ghosh

Samayita Ghosh is a Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Environmental Health, Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI). She has worked on assessing and evaluating programmes on WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene), education, youth and governance, and child labour across multiple states in India. Some of her engagements include rapid assessment of water and sanitation facilities, and evaluation of the best performing five states with respect to overall achievement of the Swachh Bharat goals for Water Aid, India; an RCT (randomised controlled trial) study focusing on closing the child labour and forced labour evidence gaps, funded by the US Department of Labour; uptake of digital adherence technologies in tuberculosis programme for Government of India and USAID, campaign evaluation at the Kumbh Mela (Nashik) for Wash United, Berlin; formative and needs assessment research on children for Sesame Street Initiative; baseline assessment for Save the Children’s programme on empowerment of girl child; mapping youth perceptions on politics, education, and internationalism with the British Council; among others. At PHFI, her work is primarily focussed on the intersections of social and behavioural determinants of environmental exposures and associated health risks. She was a recipient of the Krishna Raj Fellowship in 2012 at the Centre for Development Economics and has been a short-term scholar at Harvard TH Chan School (under the GeoHealth Hub). She completed her Master’s in sociology from Delhi School of Economics (DSE).