Kuhika Seth

Social Scientist

Delhi

India, South Asia

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Cohort Year:

2023

Bio

Researching on health systems for a decade, Kuhika Seth is a social scientist who has worked on sexual and reproductive health of young girls and women. She is currently working at International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), India. In this role, Kuhika works closely with diverse stakeholders from Asia and Africa to build a comprehensive plan using experiential learning and gamification to shift biomedical HIV research trial norms in the favor and for the benefit of the end-users. Prior to this, she worked on family planning in South Asia, to build engagement strategies to address social norms that compromise the health of women and girls. During her journey, she has extensively engaged with issues of power imbalances and inequities that lie at the core of interpersonal relationships with its smallest unit in an individual and its largest in the community and health system. Through her work, she hopes to address these challenges through behavior change interventions at all levels.

Professional Interests & Expertise

Gender Equity,Health Systems,Journalism and Storytelling,Mental and Behavioral Health,Policy/Advocacy,Research,Research, Measurement, and Evaluation

Organization

International AIDS Vaccine Initiative

Learn more about Kuhika's work:

Journal Article

Vulnerability to Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) / Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) among adolescent girls and young women in India: A rapid review

Journal Article

Social and Behavior Change Communication (SBCC) interventions for strengthening HIV prevention and research among adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs)

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