Amrita Daftary

Amrita Daftary, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor 
School of Health Policy & Management
Faculty of Health
York University
Toronto, Canada
 

 Research


Focus

Dr. Daftary is a social and behavioural global health researcher. She has expertise in qualitative research methods, implementation science and evaluation, and health services research. Dr. Daftary examines health care seeking and caregiving practices for tuberculosis (TB) and HIV. She is well cited for her work on stigma associated with TB, including drug-resistant TB and TB-HIV coinfection. Her projects are based in a number of global settings, particularly South Africa, India, and Canada. Dr. Daftary is Director and Founder of SSHIFTB, a global virtual centre on Social Science & Health Innovations For Tuberculosis, at York University's Dahdaleh Institute of Global Health Research. She also holds adjunct appointments at the University of Toronto's Dalla Lana School of Public Health and University of KwaZulu-Natal's Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA). She is a Section Editor (social and behavioural research) at PLoS Global Public Health, and serves on the academic editorial boards for PLoS One and Scientific Reports. Dr. Daftary was nominated to the inaugural list of Canadian Women Leaders in Global Health.