Research Interests: History of medicine; medical anthropology; modern Indian history; global health; health policy.

Kiran Kumbhar received his PhD in History of Science in May 2022. His dissertation, titled "Healing and Harming: The "Noble Profession" of Medicine in Post-Independence India, 1947-2015," explores the history of public trust in the biomedical profession, as well as of caste-based privilege among doctors, in post-independence India. He previously studied health policy at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (2015), and medicine at the B.J. Govt Medical College in Pune, India (2010).

He is currently the Dr. Malathy Singh Postdoctoral Associate and Lecturer at the South Asian Studies Council at Yale University. His research interests broadly include the history of healthcare and health policy in India and the Global South. At Yale, he is working on a book manuscript based on his dissertation, as well as conducting research on the history of health policy and healthcare reform in post-independence India. He will also teach undergraduate courses on the history of medicine and public health in the Global South.

Previous Degrees:
PhD, AM, Harvard University

MPH., Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

MBBS., Maharashtra University of Health Sciences, Nashik, Maharashtra, India