Sanghmitra S. Acharya is currently the Chairperson and Professor at the Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She taught at the International Institute for Population Sciences from 1990 to 1999 and served as the Director of the Indian Institute of Dalit Studies from 2015 to 2018. She has been a Visiting Fellow at CASS, Beijing; Ball State University, USA; UPPI, Manila; East-West Center, Honolulu; and the University of Botswana. She was awarded the Asian Scholarship Foundation Fellowship in 2005 and the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute Grant in 2019. For academic purposes, she has traveled to Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Germany, the Netherlands, the UK, the USA, Canada, Thailand, Belgium, and Finland. She has participated in national and international conferences, presented papers, and published extensively in peer-reviewed journals on issues related to health and discrimination, youth, gender, and sanitation in urban spaces. Her published works include Social Discrimination in Health Care Access among Dalit Children: Exploring Inclusive Environments (2008/2012), Youth in Development Discourse (2012), and Inclusive Measures and Regional Development in North-Eastern States of India: Some Dimensions of Public Health (2013). Her edited volumes include Marginalization in Globalizing Delhi: Issues of Land, Labour, and Health (2017), Health, Safety, and Well-Being of Workers in the Informal Sector in India: Lessons for Emerging Economies (2019), Caste, COVID, and Inequalities of Care: Lessons from South Asia (2022), and Mapping Identity-Induced Marginalisation in India: Inclusion and Access in the Land of Unequal Opportunities (published by Springer in 2022). Additionally, her research on sanitation workers was published by Academic Publishers in 2023.