Shibaji Bose

I work at the intersection of climate change and health systems on migration, pastoralism, agriculture, extreme weather events, water and sanitation. My approach draws on long-term visual ethnography in complex, remote and challenging geographies to facilitate research co-creation, participation, voice and agency. I work with diverse stakeholders to create democratic and equitable spaces that encourage plural knowledge frames and bridge the gap between the dominant and implicit knowledge systems. A former journalist, I have extensively worked for more than two decades in climatically fragile zones in South Asia with the Institute of Development Studies at Sussex, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, STEPS Centre, Johns Hopkins led research consortiums and has advised visual research initiatives in Italy, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tunisia, Tibet-China, Bangladesh and India. I have contributed to articles on health systems and climate change in The Lancet, Indian Anthropologist, BMC Health Services Research, BMJ Global Health, International Journal for Population, Development and Reproductive Health, Regional Environmental Change and IDS-STEPS Centre Working Paper. I have written extensively in The Statesman, The Economic Times, Hindustan Times, Geography and You, and SouthAsiaDisasters.Net. Alongside my interests in mediating between dominant and implicit narrative spaces, I have co-curated photo voice exhibitions and directed films, and my documentaries have featured in Welcome Trust, Cannes Film Festival and Health Systems Global symposiums in Cape Town, Vancouver and Liverpool. I was a global trainer on media and policy for UKAID-funded projects. I am also the Vice Chair of the Climate Resilient and Sustainable Health Systems Thematic Group of Health Systems Global.

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