Dr. Aravinda Guntupalli

Dr. Aravinda Guntupalli's academic journey started in Hyderabad, India with a BSc in Genetics, Chemistry and Zoology. Due to her interest in health inequalities, she changed her track to a Masters in Anthropology (Hyderabad Central University) to gain an in-depth understanding of the impact of socio-economic and demographic factors on health inequalities including access to care. To improve her skills further in quantitative methods, she has done another Masters in Demography at the International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai. While carrying out a PhD in Demography on the health status of the slum-dwelling migrant population in Hyderabad in Demography, she was offered a research and teaching position at the University of Tuebingen at the Department of Economics, which resulted in her PhD thesis on Anthropometric Evidence of Indian Welfare and Inequality in the 20th Century. Her postdoctoral journey took her to the University of Southampton in 2007 where she worked as a research fellow in the Social Policy Department and at the MRC Life Course Epidemiology Unit followed by a Lectureship in Social Sciences. In 2015, Dr. Aravinda moved to the Open University as a Senior Lecturer in Public Health where she was also the Academic Lead for the Race Equality Charter. In December 2019, she joined the IAHS, University of Aberdeen, as Senior Lecturer in Global Health. Her research takes her to various countries including India, UK, Kenya and Zimbabwe.