Dr Amiya Bhatia
Dr Amiya Bhatia is a Research Fellow, Green Templeton College and an Associate Professor at the Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford.
Amiya is a social epidemiologist and mixed methods researcher. Her research is on the epidemiology of violence against children, birth registration, child labour, and child marriage.
She uses quantitative, qualitative, and mixed method approaches and has a particular interest in designing research processes that challenge existing power hierarchies and are youth centred. Her work centres a commitment to studying health inequalities and to exploring how structures and contexts shape health outcomes and inequalities for children and young people.
Amiya has over a decade of experience working on issues of child health and child protection with a range of non-profit, philanthropic, academic, and UN organisations. Amiya has an MPH and doctoral degree from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a BA in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge.
