Anushree Joshi

Assistant Professor

Biography

Working at the intersection of entrepreneurship, healthcare innovation, public health and management, Dr. Anushree Joshi holds a Ph.D. in Public Health from the Indian Institute of Public Health Gandhinagar and has research experience with the Health Research Institute, University of Canberra, Australia. With a background in Psychology, she specialises in Human Resource Management, Organisational Behaviour, Research Methodology and Behavioural Statistics. A UGC-NET JRF-qualified scholar and recipient of the SHODH fellowship from the Education Department, Government of Gujarat, she has added five gold medals to her credits for academic excellence. Her research has been published in international peer-reviewed journals, including PLOS ONE and JMIR Research Protocols. Her current work focuses on healthcare entrepreneurship, innovation and leadership.

Academic/Professional Qualification

  • Ph.D. in Public Health
  • M.A. in Psychology
  • B.A. (Hons.) in Psychology

Areas of Specialization

  • Public Health; Psychology; Human Resource Management; Human Resources for Health; Organizational Behaviour and Health Management

Projects

  • Research methodology, Behavioural statistics, Industrial psychology, Organizational behaviour and Human Resource Management to the UG and PG students. 
  • Managing High Performance Teams; Design Thinking and Innovation Management; Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice; Manpower Planning, Recruitment and Selection to the PGDM-IEV and PGDM-Online students.
  • Joshi A, Panchamia J, Mavalankar D, Sharma B. The Struggle of Preserving Self-esteem and Professional identity: A Grounded Theory Study of Specialists’ Experiences serving in the Public Health System in Rajasthan, India (2025). PLoS ONE. 20(6): e0325820. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0325820.
  • Joshi A, Panchamia J, Pandya A. Incentivizing Rural Work Preferences Among Specialist Physicians: Protocol for a Discrete Choice Experiment (2024). JMIR Research Protocols; 13: e59621. doi: 10.2196/59621
  • Joshi A, Panchamia J, Mavalankar D. Developing a Discrete Choice Experiment Questionnaire to Design Health Policy Interventions for Rural Retention of Specialist Physicians in Rajasthan,India (2024). Cureus 16(12): e76073. doi:10.7759/cureus.76073
  • Joshi A, Panchamia J, Mavalankar D. From Shortage to Surplus: Specialist Physicians' Attraction and Retention in the Indian Rural Healthcare Context (2026). Indian Journal of Public Health 70(2): 280–282. doi: 10.4103/ijph.ijph_105_25
  • Joshi A, Panchamia J, Mohanty I, Niyonsenga T, Mavalankar D. What do motivate Specialist Doctors to work at Rural Community Health Centres? Evidence from a Discrete Choice Experiment in Rajasthan, India (2024). Human Resources for Health (Under Review).
  • Panchamia J, Golechha M, Joshi A, Bhagat B, Bharati V, Mavalankar D. (2021). Low COVID-19 mortality in old age homes in Western India: An empirical study. Asia Pacific Journal of Health Management. 16(3), 145-153. doi: 10.1101/2020.12.08.20245134.
  • Patel C, Upadhyay V, Gairola P, Panchamia J, Joshi A, Mavalankar D. Governance Signals on Health Workforce Availability: A Comparative Review of CAG Public Health Audits in India (2026). Journal of Health Management (Under Review).
  • IIM Ahmedabad Healthcare Summit 2026: Advancing AI in Healthcare (August 22, 2026) organized by IIM Ahmedabad, Gujarat.
  • Workshop on Research Ethics and Good Clinical Practice (GCP) (May 22,2024) organized by Indian Institute of Public Health Gandhinagar-Institutional Ethics Committee (IIPHG-IEC).
  • Workshop on Evidence Synthesis (April 3-4, 2024) at Indian Institute of Public Health Gandhinagar, co-hosted by Campbell South Asia.
  • Healthcare Leadership Enhancement Program (July 1, 2024 – February 6, 2025) organized by State Health System Resource Center, Gujarat & Indian Institute of Public Health Gandhinagar.
  • Participated and volunteered in the NCD Screening Camp held at Alampur Primary School in Alampur village, Gandhinagar (May 18, 2024) organized by Indian Institute of Public Health Gandhinagar.
  • Training on “Introduction to R training for the Action Against Stunting Hub Study” (August 7, 2023) organized by UKRI GCRF Action against stunting Hub, Indian Institute of Public Health Gandhinagar and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
  • HDR Candidate development programs and workshops (May-June 2023) organized by HDR (Higher Degrees by Research) team, University of Canberra.
  • Attended Pre-Con on “Grant Writing and Publication” (January 8, 2023) organized by the Indian Institute of Public Health Gandhinagar (IIPHG) in collaboration with Parul University, Baroda.
  • ACIES-2023, Conclave on Public Health and Hospital Administration (January 9-10, 2023) organized by the Indian Institute of Public Health Gandhinagar (Public Health Foundation of India), Gujarat.
  • Virtual Global Symposium on “Human Resources for Health : Optimizing the workforce in the Health Sector in India" (December 3-4, 2020) organized by NIHFW in partnership with UNICEF and WHO.
  • 1st Indian Congress of Industrial & Organizational Psychology on Changing Landscape And Future of I/O Psychology (January 30-31, 2018) organized by Department of Psychology, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur.
  • National Seminar on Climate Change and Sustainable Development (June 5, 2017) organized by Indira Gandhi Centre for Human Ecology, Environmental and Population Studies, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur.
  • 52nd National and 21st International Conference on Psychology for Building Global Community (February 23-25, 2017) organized by Department of Psychology, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur.
  • 1st Asia- Pacific Conference of Rajasthan Psychology Academy (March 1-2, 2016), organized by the Department of Psychology, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur.
  • National Conference on Environmental Impact on Health and its Management: Eco-friendly Strategies and XXVII All India Congress of Zoology (NCEHM-2016) (February 8-10, 2016) organized by Centre for Advanced Studies, Department of Zoology, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur.
  • 1st International Conference of Indian Academy of Health Psychology (ICIAHP-2015) (December 6 – 8, 2015) organized by the Department of Psychology, University of Jammu, Jammu.
  • International Capacity Building Workshop on Counseling Techniques (November 20, 2014), jointly organized by the Department of Lifelong Learning and Department of Psychology, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur.
  • Red Ribbon Club (RRC) Training Programme (2013) organized by University Maharani College, Jaipur.
  • National Conference on “Revisiting Issues of Women’s Security: From Womb to Tomb” (September 11-13, 2013) organized by PRAGYA University Maharani College, Jaipur.
  • IIM Ahmedabad Healthcare Summit 2026: Advancing AI in Healthcare (August 22, 2026) organized by IIM Ahmedabad, Gujarat.
  • Life Member of Academic Society – Indian Academy of Applied Psychology since 2017

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