Mounika Bhukya

Mounika Bhukya is currently pursuing her PhD education in Global Health Policy at the University of Edinburgh.  Her research focusses on the commercial determinants of health in the pesticide industry in India.  Mounika is a GRACT (Global Research Academy for Clinical Toxicology) Scholar and her PhD is partly funded by NIHR and University of Edinburgh.  She has been working as a Project and Policy Officer with CPSP since 2022 on various research projects in India. 

She also has experience in government partnerships and project implementation and has worked on various macro level policies in health, agriculture and education sectors with the state and central government of India. She has previously worked with global organisations like UN Habitat, JPAL, IIHS and Indo-German Centre for Sustainability.

Mounika is passionate about cross-cultural problem solving, grassroots solutions, and is attempting to bridge policy gaps one intervention at a time.