DPhil Student Ashish Giri
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Ashish Giri
DPhil Student in Clinical Medicine
EDUCATION
DPhil in Clinical Medicine (in progress), University of Oxford
MSc International Health and Tropical Medicine, University of Oxford, 2023
Master of Public Health, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, [2019]
PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE
Research Manager – Indian Subcontinent, Global Health Solidarity Project, 2023–2025
Manager – Tribal Health Collaborative, Piramal Foundation, 2021–2022
Manager – Strategic Initiatives Group, Piramal Foundation, 2019–2021
RESEARCH
My doctoral research develops an approach to examining flood-related health risk in the
Indian Himalayas as an emergent phenomenon — risk that is produced, amplified,
dampened, and redistributed through interactions among the flood and the components
of the systems for health: healthcare delivery, water and sanitation, food systems,
livelihoods, transport, governance, and social networks. I treat these as a complex,
dynamic, and interconnected system, attending to the feedbacks and non-linear
dynamics through which a flood cascades across its components. The work asks where
in the system risk is produced and amplified, where it is dampened, and how it is
distributed across populations, geographies, and time, with the aim of identifying
leverage points where targeted intervention might shift system-wide outcomes rather
than only repair localised damage.