How Rajasthan Can Make Right to Health a Reality

Aditya is Lead, Vidhi Bengal. He was formerly a Senior Resident Fellow with the Research Director’s Office at Vidhi, where he advised Ministries of the Government of India in drafting legislation across various sectors such as tribunal reforms, cinematography, regulation of nuclear energy, MSMEs, and the repeal of obsolete legislation. He contributes regularly to national dailies such as the Times of India and Hindustan Times on issues of public law and policy. Aditya is also a part-time PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge, where he is a Wright Rogers scholar and Lucy Cavendish Law Enrichment scholar, studying universal adult franchise in India. He holds a BA LLB (Hons.) from the National Law School of India University, Bengaluru, and an LLM (First Class) from the University of Cambridge, where he was awarded two Faculty Prizes for Advanced Public Law and Comparative Legal History and the Emmeline Pankhurst Prize for his contributions to Lucy Cavendish College.

Shreyashi was a Senior Resident Fellow at Vidhi, and works in the area of public health. Her interests include public health, gender & sexuality, mental health, labour, and migration. She completed her B.A., LL.B. (Hons.) from the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata in 2016. Prior to joining Vidhi, she was engaged as a consultant to the District Administration, Ranchi. She worked on public health, nutrition, and education in mining-affected and other under-served areas of the district. As part of this engagement, she drafted the Guidelines on COVID-19 Preparedness and Control in Ranchi - and coordinated planning and implementation of health and social support mechanisms (domestic violence, mental health, migrant workers’ rights) during the pandemic. Apart from this, she has close to three years' experience as a researcher on open science and knowledge sharing with the Centre for Innovation, Intellectual Property and Competition at National Law University, Delhi. She co-authored the Open Science India Report, which seeks to guide government/ institutional policies for implementation of open science practices and inclusive research & knowledge ecosystems, especially in the Indian context.