Role: Fulbright Scholar, Emory University; PhD Candidate, Tata Institute of Social Sciences
Mumbai, India

  Contact: amitapitre@gmail.com

  Research Interests:
Public Health | Development | Gender | Class Studies

Amita has a Master's in Public Health and is currently working towards her PhD in Women's Studies at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai, India. She has worked for nearly 15 years in the development sector, mostly on issues of gender and health. Her research looks at how systemic gender, class, and caste discrimination operate within society, and is directed at making recommendations for policy change. Working with leading human rights organizations such as UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund) and Oxfam India (an Oxfam International confederate) has helped Amita develop a gender-informed framework. Her current project will look at judgements and trial court data in rape cases in order to understand how medical evidence is used in the adjudication of cases. She is also interested in looking at how women's bodies are constructed in the process of the trial and how meaning is made of medical evidence.