Tanishqa Sheth

Tanishqa is a physician from India, with a passion for public health research, nurtured by the deep roots of her college with the impoverished and underserved communities around its vicinity. She completed her MBBS in K.J. Somaiya Medical College, Mumbai, situated in the heart of the world's largest urban slum, with Distinction in the subject of Preventive and Social Medicine. She was the first in her class to have a paper in Bioethics, focusing on the gender disparities in organ donation, published in an international journal of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics. She was also one of only two medical students from India to represent the WHO at Asia Youth International Model United Nations, winning an Honorable Mention from His Highness the Crown Prince of Selangor for her resolutions on the subject of "Ebola as a Threat to Global Health Security." During her postings in remote rural areas, she spearheaded research-cum-intervention programs to provide easy access to and understanding of knowledge among marginalised rural communities about infectious and non-infectious diseases prevalent in the area, from hand-washing practices to mealtimes in diabetes, creating easy-to-use visual aids that catered to the often illiterate communities, while duly respecting their cultural sensitivities. At present, Tanishqa is spearheading field research into habits of rural hypertensive patients, abortion rights and delivery systems, and medicosocial profiles of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis patients, among others.

Link to ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-3911-8045