Prof. (Dr.) Sneha Krishnan

Dr. Sneha Krishnan works at the interstices between environment, humanitarian and public health domains. She has over 12 years of practical experience in designing, implementing, and undertaking policy research and impact evaluations related to leadership (e.g. local, faith-based, etc.), public health, health systems strengthening, capacity building, inclusion, and women empowerment. Her teaching portfolio includes Health Systems and Policy Strengthening, Humanitarian Health Assessment, Conflict and Health, Environmental Health, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, and Health Technologies.

Primarily, her work has focused on countries in the Global South. She researches far-flung areas that face regular impacts of climate change and disasters in the Global South and makes empirical and theoretical contributions to the field with her incisive analysis and writing portfolio.

She has a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from University College London that focused on the resilience of communities recovering from floods, cyclones, and earthquakes in South Asia. Most of her collaborative work has been supported by donors such as Disaster Emergency Committee (DEC), Medical Research Council-UK, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), Water for Women, UK Aid, and European Commission. She worked as a Trial Manager/Research Fellow with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) on a cluster, randomized controlled trial on agriculture and nutrition in Odisha, funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. She was Co-Investigator on a primary research project in Bangladesh on Forcibly Displaced Myanmar Nationals and Health Systems Resilience funded by Medical Research Council UK. She was the Principal Investigator on a Water for Women-funded trial on child nutrition and environmental health in the Solomon Islands. She has supported several humanitarian actors such as Oxfam, Christian Aid, Norwegian Refugee Council, and Action Contre la Faim (ACF) in climate-and conflict-affected regions such as South Sudan, Nepal, and Bangladesh. She has experience working in conflict settings with displaced and/or refugee populations, and international outbreak response operations such as the COVID-19 pandemic.

Her work centers on high levels of gender sensitivity, engagement, and inclusion of women in issues related to different types of displacement. She has a proven academic record through her publications in various peer-reviewed high-impact factor journals, including Lancet Planetary Health, Climate and Development, Maternal Child Nutrition, Trials, and Environmental Hazards.