Sneha Krishnan

Dr. Sneha Krishnan is trained in psychology, environmental engineering and disaster management, with her multi-disciplinary interests ranging from environmental and public health, women’s empowerment, humanitarian conflicts and adaptation. She has worked on a wide range of topics in Asia-Pacific.

Her research expertise includes working in Odisha on a randomised controlled trial on agriculture and nutrition as a Research Fellow at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. She has also carried out research in Bangladesh on Forcibly Displaced Myanmar Nationals on a Medical Research Council grant. Collaborating with Ekjut, an Indian NGO she has worked using photovoice method with adolescent boys and girls in Jharkhand to understand their perceptions women’s empowerment. She was the Principal Investigator on a Water for Women funded trial on child nutrition and environmental health in Solomon Islands.

She has a PhD in Environmental Engineering from University College London, where she worked with communities across South Asia on the recovery of village water and sanitation systems after floods, cyclones and earthquakes in Assam, Odisha and Nepal respectively.

Recently, she co-founded a technological start-up in India called ETCH (Environment, Technology and Community Health) Consultancy Services which applies and advocates for inclusive technology to counter challenges in environmental and community health issues. On a personal level, she continues to explore avenues to apply lifestyle changes and strategies for minimising plastic consumption, alternate education choices, and subaltern narratives on environmental conservation through creative writing and film-making.

As an early career researcher, she has significant experience fostering collaborations between researchers and practitioners from NGOs, government and private sectors, for better use of evidence in practice demonstrated by her high impact publications in transdisciplinary journals