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Dr Akanksha Marphatia

Research Fellow - Gender & Sanitation

United Kingdom

I am an interdisciplinary global health researcher, with a central focus on gender. I completed my PhD in human geography and an MPhil in International Education at the University of Cambridge with ESRC funding. I hold an EdM in International and Comparative Education (Harvard Graduate School of Education).

My research examines the life course emergence of educational and economic inequalities, and the impact of early women鈥檚 marriage (<18 years) on gender inequality.

I currently work on a project linking gender, sanitation and quality of life.

Before joining LSHTM, I worked on a joint University of Cambridge-UCL project investigating maternal and child health and human capital outcomes associated with women鈥檚 early marriage in lowland rural Nepal and rural India.

Prior to my PhD, I worked in international gender and education policy for 18 years, with the International Centre for Research on Women, UNESCO, the World Bank and Save the Children, finishing as Acting Director of ActionAid鈥檚 International Education Team. During secondments to Ministries of Education across Sub-Saharan Africa, I integrated gender into national policy, programmes and budgets.

Affiliations

Department of Disease Control
Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases

Teaching

I have lectured on introductory statistics (geography), and given interdisciplinary seminars linking global health with women's early marriage, education, nutrition, mental health, and gender inequality.

I have also been an advisor on MSc theses, and a secondary PhD Supervisor.

Research

My research uses a bio-social framework to examine gender inequality across the life course and at different spatial and temporal scales.

My work aims to connect different aspects of women's lives, including the age at which they marry, their educational and nutritional status, and how differential access to water, sanitation and economic resources constrains women time-use, life opportunities and mental health.

My research uses a range of methods, from survey and time-use data to qualitative and participatory approaches.
Research Area
Gender
Sanitation
Water
Global Health
Adolescent health
Statistical methods
Research : policy relationship
Social and structural determinants of health
Disease and Health Conditions
Mental health
Malnutrition
Country
India
Kenya
Nepal
Region
South Asia
Sub-Saharan Africa (developing only)

Selected Publications

Ali, R; Zinab, B; Megersa, BS; Yilma, D; Girma, T; Abdissa, A; Berhane, M; Admasu, B; Filteau, S; NITSCH, D; Friis, H; Wells, JC K; Andersen, GS; Abera, M; Olsen, MF; Wibaek, R; MARPHATIA, AA;
2024
BMC public health
Ali, R; Zinab, B; Megersa, BS; Yilma, D; Girma, T; Admassu, B; FILTEAU, S; Friis, H; Wells, JC K; MARPHATIA, AA; Olsen, MF; Wibaek, R; Abera, M;
2024
The British journal of nutrition
MARPHATIA, AA; Saville, NM; Manandhar, DS; Cortina-Borja, M; Wells, JC K;
2024
PeerJ
Delight, EA; De Carvalho Santiago, DC; Palma, FA G; De Oliveira, D; Souza, FN; Santana, JO; HIDANO, A; L贸pez, YA A; Reis, MG G; Ko, AI; MARPHATIA, AA; Cremonense, C; Costa, F; EYRE, MT;
2024
medRxiv
MARPHATIA, A; Busert-Sebela, L; Manandhar, DS; Reid, A; Cortina-Borja, M; Saville, N; Dahal, M; Puri, M; Wells, JC K;
2024
American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council
GRIJALVA-ETERNOD, CS; Sedzro, KM; Adjaye-Gbewonyo, K; Kushitor, SB; Lule, SA; Kushitor, MK; MARPHATIA, AA; Gray, E; Amon, S; Sanuade, OA; Awuah, RB; Baatiema, L; Kretchy, IA; Arhinful, D; Koram, KA; Fottrell, E;
2024
medRxiv
Women in Global Mental Health Research Group, coor,; Rose-Clarke, K;
2023
Transcultural psychiatry
MARPHATIA, AA; Busert-Sebela, LK; Gram, L; Cortina-Borja, M; Reid, AM; Manandhar, DS; Wells, JC K; Saville, NM;
2023
Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health
Why can't we keep our children healthy?
MARPHATIA, A;
2022
Wells, JC K; Cole, TJ; Cortina-Borja, M; SEAR, R; LEON, DA; MARPHATIA, AA; Murray, J; Wehrmeister, FC; Oliveira, PD; Gon莽alves, H; Oliveira, IO; Menezes, AM B;
2022
Frontiers in public health