Research Areas

Women's health

Health and health care have strong sociocultural dimensions. Gender is one of the most important among them. This programme not only undertakes research on women’s health, but it also informs all other programmes with the gender dimension.

Ongoing Projects

• Eliminating Gender insensitive Medical Practices
• Engaging Medical Education Departments in 7 states so as to Influence Research in the Area of Gender and Health at UG and PG levels

Completed Projects

• Integrating Gender in Medical Education
• Policy Research on Maternal Health
• Advocacy on Abortion and sex-selection
• Exploring Religious Discrimination Against Muslim Women at Health Facilities
• Status of Women Prisoners in Maharashtra
• Campaign against Forced and Coerced Sterilization - IFHHRO
• Increasing Access to Comprehensive Abortion Care Services in India
• Advocacy on Key Issues for Better Reproductive Health in Maharashtra
• National Abortion Assessment Project
• Abortion Rate, Care and Cost: A Community Based Study
• Women's Health Project
• Reproductive Health Services Research in 1990s – An Annotated Bibliography
• Aarogyacha Margavar: Violence and Women's Health
• Women, Work Environment and Health
• Research and Advocacy for Improving Quality of Abortion Care
• Women and Health Care
• Illness and Childbearing Among Women
• AIDS Awareness
• Profile of Women's Health in India
• Women's Abortion Needs and Practices in Rural Maharashtra