Jyothi Thrivikraman is an Assistant Professor of Global Public Health. She completed her PhD in Social Policy at the Heller School of Social Policy and Management (Brandeis University) in Waltham, Massachusetts (USA). For her PhD, Jyothi focused on the extent of and impacts of medical debt for those seeking credit counseling in the United States. She completed her PhD in 2012. She also has a Master’s in Public Health from the Rollins School of Public Health (Emory University) in Atlanta, GA (USA).

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Jyothi Thrivikraman is an Assistant Professor of Global Public Health.   She completed her PhD in Social Policy at the Heller School of Social Policy and Management (Brandeis University) in Waltham, Massachusetts (USA).  For her PhD, Jyothi focused on the extent of and impacts of medical debt for those seeking credit counseling in the United States.  She completed her PhD in 2012.  She also has a Master’s in Public Health from the Rollins School of Public Health (Emory University) in Atlanta, GA (USA).

Jyothi has had a varied career.  She taught briefly at the University of Michigan Flint in the College of Health Sciences.  Upon moving to Singapore, Jyothi worked at the Health Promotion Board and then the Genomic Institute of Singapore. 

Jyothi has been at Leiden University College since 2017.  The core of her research since joining LUC has focused on food waste and food insecurity.  She was part of a knowledge partnership with a group of colleagues at LUC, supported by an award from the Central Innovation District in The Hague municipality, working on food waste as an expression of identities, prosperity, social and ecological rights, and responsibilities.  From this experience, her interests in participatory action research and community engagement developed.  Many of her current projects sit at this intersection of participatory action research and food insecurity/waste.  Jyothi has been awarded a Global Transformations and Governance Challenges (GTGC) grant for an inter-faculty project titled 'The many faces of food markets during COVID-19: Stories of solidarity and change through and with food'.  She also worked with Institute of Security Studies on food markets during Covid. 

Future research plans include collaborations with Humanities across Borders on “Storytelling as Pedagogy”, interfaculty KIEM grant on food poverty and stigma as well as collaborations with University of Birmingham (UK) on food insecurity in the United Kingdom and Netherlands.  Lastly, Jyothi was part of a successful starter grant titled “Refloc: Resilient Ecosystems and Flourishing Communities”. 

Academic Expertise

• Health Policy and Development
• Participatory Action Research
• Waste
• Food Insecurity
• Health Promotion and Behavioral Change

Courses

• Global Health Policy
• Social Determinants of Health
• Global Challenges: Prosperity
• Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
• Qualitative Methods