Anindita Dasgupta

Residency: Columbia Global Center Amman

Research: Women ASPIRE for Mental Health: Exploring Opportunities to Build Programs, Policies, and Practice in Jordan

Dr. Anindita Dasgupta is a social and behavioral scientist whose research examines the intersection of gendered health inequities and sexual and reproductive health among women in the Middle East, New York City, and South Asia. She leads ASPIRE (Advancing Solutions in Policy, Implementation, Research, and Engagement for Refugees), a multi-country research initiative that produced landmark studies on the gendered health and mental health concerns of Syrian refugee women in Jordan and Turkey. Her work has identified mental health as a critical barrier to overall health among women affected by forced displacement, leading to her current effort to develop evidence-based, and cost-effective interventions to improve mental health among refugee women. 

Named a “2024 Changemaker in Family Planning” by the Society of Family Planning, Dr. Dasgupta currently leads multiple studies focused on improving women’s health, including an NIH-funded intervention study to reduce intimate partner violence, hazardous alcohol use, and HIV risk among women impacted by the criminal legal system. She is also PI on studies examining misinformation and disinformation in family planning and a study addressing reproductive justice needs among women in Nepal. Her expertise in leading intervention-focused research spans across diverse populations and settings, from Syrian refugees in MENA to vulnerable women in the United States.