Kritika Dixit

Kritika Dixit is the Research Manager at BNMT, with over nine years of experience in infectious diseases, mental health, and reproductive and sexual health. Her main areas of interest include the social and structural determinants of health and the design and evaluation of socioeconomic interventions to address these factors.

Ms. Dixit has led research projects exploring barriers to healthcare access, particularly in rural areas, and providing evidence to inform patient-centric healthcare models that promote equity in communities. More recently, she led research implementation for projects supported by the European Union, the Wellcome Trust (UK), and the Stop TB Partnership, aiming to increase tuberculosis case detection in Nepal and develop a locally appropriate socioeconomic support package for TB-affected households.

She holds a master’s degree in Global Health from Thammasat University, Thailand, and recently completed her PhD at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden. Ms. Dixit is a Farrar Foundation Fellow and a recipient of early-career research grants from the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (RSTMH) and the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). She has also received travel scholarships from the RSTMH and the TB Modelling and Analysis Consortium, UK.