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]edu

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 PhD 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.

Reproductive Rights and Reproductive Justice, Gender, Health, Social Movements, Social Work fieldwork

Nair,Smitha and Kalarivayil,Rajesh .2022. 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)

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

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 Scienc, 45, 126-148.

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.

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

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

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

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