Dr Smitha Sasidharan Nair | Tata Institute of Social Sciences

Dr Smitha Sasidharan Nair

Assistant Professor
Mumbai Campus, Centre for Health and Mental Health, School of Social Work - Mumbai Campus

Qualification

B.A. in Psychology, University of Pune (2004),
M.A. in Social Work, University of Pune (2006),
M.Phil. in Public Health, Gender, Centre for Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (2011),
Ph.D. in Public Health, Gender, Centre for Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (2016)

Contact

smitha.nair[at]tiss[dot]ac[dot]in

smitha.nair@tiss.edu

Smitha Nair is an Assistant Professor with the Centre for Health and Mental Health, School of Social Work, TISS, Mumbai. She has completed her MPhil and Ph.D. from Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her Ph.D. was entitled- Women's Health Movement, Overpopulation, Collective Action: A Study of Three Select Campaigns in Delhi. Her areas of interest are - reproductive rights and reproductive justice, health, gender, and social movements.

She is currently the Alternate social science expert at the National Institute for Research in Reproductive and Child Health.

Reproductive Rights and Reproductive Justice

Gender and Health

Social Movements

Social Work fieldwork

Social Determinants of Health

Journal Articles

Kalarivayil, R., Chattaraj, B., & Nair, S. (2024). Precarity of Place in the Global South: The Case of Tea Garden Workers in Assam. Social Inclusion, 12. doi:https://doi.org/10.17645/si.7776

Nair, S. S., Soletti, A., & Yadav, P. (2023). Pragati: Sculpting a Social Model of Health in a Resource-Poor Context. The International Journal of Community and Social Development, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/25166026231187497

Chakrapani, V., Nair, S., Subramaniam, S., Ranade, K., Mohan, B., Nelson, R., Sivaraman, S.T., Shunmugam, M., Kaur, J., Rawat, S., Ethirajan, T., Das, C., Rajan, S., Puri, A.K., Kushwaha, B.S., Rao, B., Das, U., Verma, V., Kapoor, N. (2023). Efficacy of a Multi-Level Pilot Intervention ("Harmony") to Reduce Discrimination Faced by Men Who Have Sex with Men and Transgender Women in Public Hospitals in India: Findings from a Pre- and Post-Test Quasi-Experimental Trial among Healthcare Workers. Venereology, 2 (3), 86-107. doi:10.3390/venereology2030009. https://www.mdpi.com/2674-0710/2/3/9

Nair,Smitha and Kalarivayil,Rajesh .2023. Mothering and Radical Selfcare: An Autoethnography of Participating in a Facebook Parenting Group; Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics, 7(1)

S. Birje, A.D. Patil, K.R. Munne, V. Chavan, B.N. Joshi, A. Akula, N. Salvi, S. Nair, S.P. Valawalkar, D.P. Tandon, S. Chauhan, D. Patil and B.V. Babu (2022). Enablers & challenges of tribal women & health system for implementation of screening of non-communicable diseases & common cancers: A mixed-methods study in Palghar district of Maharashtra, India. Indian Journal of Medical Research. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36629192/. 319-329.

Nair,Smitha.S and Kalarivayil ,Rajesh .2018.Has India’s Surrogacy Bill Failed Women Who Become Surrogates?’; Antyajaa: Indian Journal Of Women And Social Change,3(1),1-11

Nair, Smitha. 2017. ‘Injectable Contraceptives: Failing Indian Women’; Economic and Political Weekly,52(6), 17-19.

Nair Smitha and Rajesh Kalarivayil.2017. ‘Saved a Generation": Campaigns against Hazardous Contraceptives in India", Asian Journal of Social Science, 45, 126-148.

Nair Smitha.2015.‘The 'Emergency' Of Repoliticising Rights: Examining Emergency Contraception’; Meridian, 4 (2), 93-98

Book and Book Chapters:

Kalarivayil, Rajesh and Smitha. S. Nair. Unionisation In Post Reform India: A Review Of Trends And Trajectories in George, Sobin and Shalini Sinha (eds).2017. - Redefined Labour Spaces: Organising workers in Post Liberalised India, Routledge Publication.

Maydeo, Anjali and Smitha Nair (ed.).2016. Social Work Education in the Contemporary World: Issues and Challenges, Pune: Bhashya Prakashan

Newspaper articles:

Nair,Smitha Sasidhran, Rani Rohini Raman and Jisha C.J (2020) 'A Universal Right to Health Is the Way Forward in Post-Lockdown India' -https://thewire.in/government/a-universal-right-to-health-is-the-way-forward-in-post-lockdown-india

Other Publications

Soletti, Ashabanu, Nair, Smitha and Yadav.Pravin. 2024. Cultural Sustainability, Cultural Competency, and Sustainable Development. Social Dialogue, IASSW.

Nair, Smitha.2018. Population Policy and Population Stabilization: Where are we today?, Medico Friend Circle Bulletin (379)

Nair, Smitha.2016. Child Rights as Human Rights-Paper I, Tezpur: UNICEF and Tezpur University

Co-Investigator- Reducing discrimination faced by MSM and Transgender Women in public hospitals: A multi-level pilot intervention using a quasi-experimental design.