Bio

I am a PhD student at IIIT Delhi, India, working under the guidance of Dr. Pushpendra Singh. My research interest lies in addressing the real problems of marginalized communities of developing countries through technology. I use Human Computer interaction research for designing and evaluating the proposed solutions. My current work which belongs to Education in Healthcare, focuses on building low-cost and contextualized learning platforms for Community Health Workers of rural India.

Research Projects

The project Sangoshthi is targeted towards building a low cost technology enabled solution for empowering a key functionary of the Health system of India known as ASHA (Accredit social Health Activists) with knowledge. ASHA is a trained village women accredited with the responsibility of community mobilization towards local health planning and access of health services focusing particularly on the women and children health. ASHA programme is now a cornerstone strategy of National Rural Health mission by reaching a scale of 9 lakhs. However, sub-optimal knowledge and skills of ASHA is one of the most important factors impeding the realization of the true potential of this programme. Sanghosti addresses the challenge by providing a mobile based training and learning platform to host distance learning environment for the ASHAs