Dr. Madhulika Sahoo





Name: Dr. Madhulika Sahoo
Qualification: PhD
Designation : Assistant Professor
Department: School of Business
institute name : Vellore Institute of Technology University
College address : Vellore Institute of Technology University, Amaravati, Andhra Pradesh, Vijayawada, India-522237
Award for : Young Achiever Award
Publication title: Journal
Paper Title : Using three delay model to understand the social factors responsible for neonatal deaths among displaced tribal communities in India
Journal Name : Journal of immigrant and minority health
Volume : in print
Issue No. : in print
month of publication : April
Year : 2020
page no. : 1-13
ISSN : 1557-1920


About Dr. Madhulika Sahoo

Dr. Madhulika Sahoo is an Anthropologist by training, currently working as Assistant Professor in the School of Business, Vellore Institute of Technology University, Andhra Pradesh. Where she teach Anthropology, Qualitative Research Method, Anthropology of Technology and Gender studies.

She has over 8 years of experience working with forced migrants in India and the United Kingdom. She has worked with different Government and non-government organizations such as Anthropological Survey of India Government of India, UNICEF, UNDP, independent asylum commission, refugee council in various capacities.

Her work mostly focusses on communities displaced by disasters and development. She holds a MA Anthropology from Sabitribaiphule Pune University, MA in Refugee Studies from the University of East London and PhD from National Institute of Technology Rourkela. Her PhD research was on the reproductive healthcare practices and challenges among the displaced indigenous communities in India. Her research interest includes climate change adaptation, forced migration, ethnography, tribal development, and gender studies. She is also a regional coordinator to the Avoidable Death Network. Working with a team of international experts on disaster and health on unavoidable death due to COVID-19.

Dr. Sahoo has published more than 10 research papers in peer reviewed international and national journals. She has also co-authored a book titled ‘Bishipada Changing Milieu: Biocultural Diversity, Environment and Sustainable Development’ Anthropological Survey of India.

Recently she published paper titled Reproductive health care status of the displaced tribal women in India: An analysis using Nussbaum Central human capabilities, published in Health Care for Women International, pp.1-30. Taylor and Francis publisher https://doi.org/10.1080/07399332.2020.1743994 

Using Three Delay Model to Understand the Social Factors Responsible for Neonatal Deaths Among Displaced Tribal Communities in India, published in Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, pp.1-13, Springer, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10903-020-00990-y. 

She was invited speaker and panelist in many forums recently such as the international workshop on Qualitative research methods, approaches and techniques in migration research”, organized by the Central University of Gujarat in collaboration with the University of East London held on 31 st June to 2 nd July 2020, 

International webinar on ‘Exploring COVID-19 from an Indigenous People perspective’ organized by Human Development Capability Association, UK held on 26 th June 2020

National webinar on “Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights: Responses from women and adolescents during COVID -19, and Practices of tribals” organized by Restless development, India held on 18 th May 2020. She is also reviewer to various Scopus journals: Journal for Equity in Healt-, Springer publication, Qualitative Health Research- Sage publication and Journal Migration letters-Transnational press London publication.