Shweta Dabholkar

Shweta Dabholkar is currently pursuing her PhD education in Health Economics at the University of Bristol. Her research focusses on estimating the cost of suicides in India. Shweta’s PhD is partly funded by University of Edinburgh. She has been working as a Project and Policy Officer with CPSP since 2019 on various research projects and international policy advocacy work. She has also worked as a Research Assistant at JPAL South Asia on a large scale non-communicable diseases randomized control trial [RCT] that assessed the impact of messaging services, tone of messaging and financial incentives on the adherence to diabetes treatment amongst the elderly population living in the slums of Mumbai. Shweta has completed her M.Sc in Anthropology and Development Studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2016.