Dr Hemalata Pisal

Sr Researcher

Dr Hemalata Pisal is PhD in Physical Anthropology from Pune University and Master in International Health from Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel, Switzerland. She has also done Diploma in LGBT and Human Rights from RFSU & RFSL, Sweden. She is honored with scholarships from Tribal Research and Training Institute (Pune), Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (Switzerland) & Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sweden). She has been honored PhD for her work on “Inheritance of Thenar/Ist Interdigital Patterns on Palm”. In her initial career she has worked among various tribal communities from Amravati, Gadchiroli, Nandurbar, Junnar, Thane, and Nashik. Having qualitative research expertise, she has worked in the area of stigmatized issues of women’s health (Abortion, HIV/AIDs, Domestic Violence etc.), and with stigmatized sexual minority communities such as female sex-workers and transgender. She has written several popular articles on above-mentioned issues in Marathi magazines and popular edited books and also written a book named “HIV/AIDS – Majhya Janiva, Maajhi Jababdari (My awareness-my responsibility)” for community health workers published by Masum. She has conducted several trainings on Adolescent Health, Women’s Health, Gender, HIV/AIDS, Sexuality and Health Rights of Sexual minorities.