Dr. Sreerupa Sengupta is an Associate Professor in the Healthcare Management at the Goa Institute of Management. She was awarded a doctoral fellowship by the Tokyo Foundation, Japan for her doctoral work on gender, health communication, and human rights. She was a Visiting Fellow at Howard University, Washington D.C., USA and the American University of Cairo, Egypt. She is also an alumnus of German Institute of Development and Sustainability, Bonn, Germany. 
Sreerupa’s research, teaching and consulting interests lie at the intersection of gender, health and public policy. She has received research grants from UNWOMEN, UNICEF, German Institute of Development and Sustainability, Ministry of Women and Child Development, National Commission of Women. Her funded projects span critical areas such as health promotion, care economy, gender, health and climate change, and gender and development. She has completed consulting assignments on HIV and climate change (supported by ICMR-NICED, UNDP and WHO) and social and behaviour change communication for tribal health (supported by Access Health International). 
Prior to joining GIM, she was associated with the Administrative Staff College of India where she designed and led numerous Executive Education programs for international and national clients [ADB, Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), DST, and several government departments] on gender budgeting, gender-based monitoring and evaluation, gender, health and climate change, and design thinking.

Experience

• Assistant Professor, Administrative Staff College of India, Hyderabad
• Guest Faculty, Department of Sociology, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
• Senior Research Fellow, School of Women’s Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
• Development Consultant, Action Aid, Kolkata
   

Sponsored Research

Consultancy (last 5 years)

• Strengthening Primary Healthcare in Northern Telangana through Participatory Action Research supported by Access Health International, Hyderabad, November 2024- August, 2025.

• Development of a Framework to Identify Research Priorities for Mitigating the Impact of Climate Change on HIV Response in India, supported by ICMR -NICED & UNDP, 2023.

   

• Chakraborty, A; Khan, F and Sengupta, S (2025). Who ‘Cares’ while Working from Home? Covid-19 Pandemic and Care Work Distribution among IT Professionals in India". In Dutta Gupta, S and Manjula, M, ed. "Rethinking Gender Mainstreaming", Emerald Publishing (forthcoming).
• Chakraborty, A and Sengupta, S. (2023). Equitable Pathways for a Sustainable Future: The Case for Mainstreaming Gender across Sustainable Development Goals. In Chakraborty, C and Pal, D (ed) Gender Inequality and its Implications of Education and Health: A Global Perspective. Emerald Publishing Limited. (Scopus Indexed)
  ISBN: 978-1-83753-181-3/ eISBN: 978-1-83753-180-6
  https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/doi/10.1108/9781837531806
• Singhal, D. and Sengupta, S. (2023) Pandemic, MOOCs and Responsible Management Education. In Christian Hauser (ed.) Responsible Management Education and the Digital Transformation Challenge. Palgrave Macmillan.
  ISBN: 978-3-031-15631-1
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-15632-8
  https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-15632-8

SPECIAL ISSUE

• Sengupta, S (2018). Accelerating Change: Strategising for Gender Equality by 2030. ASCI Journal of Management, 47 (1). ISSN: 0257-8069 (Indexed in EBSCO) https://asci.org.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Journal-471MARCHsplissue.pdf

EDITED VOLUME 

• Sengupta, S. & V Padmanabhan (Ed.). Being the Beacon of Hope: Creating New Pathways for Business and Society. ISBN: 978-93-5442-634-6 (Orient Blackswan Private Ltd, forthcoming)

• Padmanabhan, V., Khanna, K., & Sengupta, S. (2024). Interviewer Stress and Coping: Interpreting Admission Interview Experiences of Higher Education Faculty Members. Abhigyan, Sage Journals. 
  https://doi.org/10.1177/09702385241235457
• Phadnis, S., Sengupta, S., & Chakraborty, A. (2021). Work from Home, Mental Health and Employee Needs: A pilot study in selected information technology organizations in India. Asia Pacific Journal of Health Management, 16(3), 103-110. (Scopus Indexed, ABDC: C) 
  https://doi.org/10.24083/apjhm.v16i3.977
• Sengupta, S and DevRoy, S (2018). Data Equality to Gender Equality: Responding to 2030 Agenda. ASCI Journal of Management, 47, 1 (pp 111-125). ISSN: 0257-8069 (Indexed in EBSCO). 
  https://asci.org.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Journal-471MARCHsplissue.pdf
• Sengupta, S, Singh, B, and R Prasanna (2016). Breaking the cycle of malnutrition in India: Surguja Fulwari, Chhattisgarh and Aman Persera, Meghalaya. ASCI Journal of Management, Vol 45, No.2 (pp. 20-35). ISSN: 0257-8069 (Indexed in EBSCO). https://bit.ly/3ByRTjY
• Sengupta, S, Singh, B and Srivastava, K. (2016). Right to consent: Lado Campaign, Madhya Pradesh. ASCI Journal of Management, Vol 45, No.2 (pp. 42-55). ISSN: 0257-8069 (Indexed in EBSCO). https://bit.ly/38uaGAD
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• Sengupta, S, Singhal, D and Chakraborty, A (2025). Local feminist perspectives as transformative levers: women’s health and climate action in India
  Discussion Paper (8/2025)
  Bonn: German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
  ISBN: 978-3-96021-253-9
  https://www.idosresearch.de/fileadmin/user_upload/pdfs/publikationen/discussion_paper/2025/DP_8.2025.pdf
• Sengupta, S and Sinha, A (2022). Localising SDGs in India: The Role of Government and Private Training Institutes. Bonn: German Institute of Development and Sustainability.
  Discussion Paper (1/2022)
  ISBN: 978-3-96021-178-5
  https://www.die-gdi.de/en/discussion-paper/article/localising-the-sdgs-in-india-the-role-of-government-and-private-training-institutes/
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• Sengupta, S et al (2024). Mitigating the Impact of Climate Change on HIV Response in India. UNDP. https://www.undp.org/india/publications/mitigating-impact-climate-change-hiv-response-india
• Singh, P & Sengupta, S (2024). Skilling Youth of Goa: An Assessment of the Short-Term Training under PMKVY 2.0. Azim Premji University.
• Sengupta, S; Singhal, D and Sarkar, K. (2023). Livelihood Opportunities for Women SHGs in Goa: Assessing Trends and Challenges. Goa Institute of Public Administration and Rural Development.