When you need medicine but can’t ask for it

Shreyashi is 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.

Rituparna is a Research Fellow at Vidhi and works in the area of health. Her interests include public health, data protection and privacy, and mental health. Prior to joining Vidhi, she was engaged as a Policy Research Associate under Mr. Kashish Aneja, a practicing advocate & consultant with the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Washington D.C., where she worked extensively on topics including One Health, global regulation of e-cigarettes, and misleading advertisements related to high fat, sugar and sodium (HFSS) foods and beverages. Rituparna graduated from the National Law University Odisha (NLUO) in 2022 with a B.A., LL.B. (Hons.), and received a Merit Gold Medal in the subject of Personal Law.