{"id":170,"date":"2016-09-20T07:04:44","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T07:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cwds.ac.in\/?page_id=170"},"modified":"2026-04-11T11:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T11:56:13","slug":"bijoya-roy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/backupp.com\/cwds\/faculty-and-staff\/faculty-and-researchers\/bijoya-roy\/","title":{"rendered":"Bijoya Roy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Contact:\u00a0bijoya@cwds.ac.in; bijoyaroy@gmail.com<\/p>\r\n<h4>Education<\/h4>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Ph.D., Centre for Social Medicine and Community He<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8353 size-medium alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/backupp.com\/cwds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/bijoyanew-270x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/backupp.com\/cwds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/bijoyanew-270x300.jpg 270w, https:\/\/backupp.com\/cwds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/bijoyanew-768x852.jpg 768w, https:\/\/backupp.com\/cwds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/bijoyanew-243x270.jpg 243w, https:\/\/backupp.com\/cwds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/bijoyanew.jpg 786w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">alth, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi<\/span><\/li>\r\n<li>M.Phil., Centre for Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi<\/li>\r\n<li>M.A. Social Work, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>I am an Assistant Professor at the\u00a0Centre for Women\u2019s Development Studies. My research focuses on\u00a0Commercialisation of healthcare, Birthing and midwifery practices;\u00a0Gender and healthcare workforce;\u00a0Reproductive injustice. My recent work has looked at\u00a0gendered forms of violence in healthcare settings, and digital forums and their engagement with health issues.\u00a0I welcome inquiries from colleagues interested in these areas and look forward to opportunities for scholarly exchange and collaboration.<\/p>\r\n<h4>Publications<\/h4>\r\n<p><strong>Special Issue Editor<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Duggal, Ravi, Roy, Bijoya. 2024.\u00a0Political Economy of Private Healthcare in India: An Anthology through the MFC Lens. Medico Friend Circle, 2024.<\/li>\r\n<li>Lingam, Lakshmi, Sathyamala, C. Prakash, Padma, Khanna, Renu, Roy, Bijoya, 2024. Pushing Boundaries and Rewriting Contours: An Anthology of MFC Women &amp; Health Writings.. Medico Friend Circle, 2024.<\/li>\r\n<li>Indian Journal of Gender Studies, 23 (1) 2016 Special Issue: Gender and Commercialisation of Health Care<\/li>\r\n<li>With Srinivasan, C., Dasgupta, J., Som, M., Karpagam, S., Contractor, S., &amp; Priyadarsh. Medico Friend Circle Bulletin 381 (2023) Special issue: Caste, Tribe and Religion: Institutionalized Discrimination in Health<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p><strong><br \/>Research Articles<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Roy, B. (2024) Workplace Gender-Based Violence in Healthcare Settings \u2013 Breaking the Silence and Visiblizing Evidence, COFEM Blog, COFEM Secretariat;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cofemsocialchange.org\/workplace-gender-based-violence-in-healthcare-settings-breaking-the-silence-and-visiblizing-evidence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/cofemsocialchange.org\/workplace-gender-based-violence-in-healthcare-settings-breaking-the-silence-and-visiblizing-evidence\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1733807302507000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0mtLil4dq1u1J8Kv4yl-dH\">https:\/\/<wbr \/>cofemsocialchange.org\/<wbr \/>workplace-gender-based-<wbr \/>violence-in-healthcare-<wbr \/>settings-breaking-the-silence-<wbr \/>and-visiblizing-evidence\/<\/a><\/li>\r\n<li>Bijoya Roy, Fabiana da Cunha Saddi, Stephen Peckham, Maria Pereira Barretos, Critical policy capacity factors in the implementation of the community health worker program in India,\u00a0<em>Policy and Society<\/em>, Volume 42, Issue 1, March 2023, Pages 90\u2013103,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/polsoc\/puac032\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/polsoc\/puac032<\/a><\/li>\r\n<li>Roy B. (2021) Commercialization of Healthcare in India: COVID 19 and Beyond. Indian Journal of Medical Ethics. Published online first on June 5, 2021. DOI:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.20529\/IJME.2021.044\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/doi.org\/10.20529\/IJME.2021.044&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1623131449221000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGxWc7sHNkxHP5XwtJa-HIfNsSgxQ\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.20529\/<wbr \/>IJME.2021.044<\/a><\/li>\r\n<li>Chakravarthi, I.,\u00a0<b>Roy, B.<\/b>, Mukhopadhyay, I., and Barria, S. (2017)\u00a0<em>Investing in Health \u2013 Healthcare Industry in India<\/em>. Economic &amp; Political Weekly Vol LII, No. 45<\/li>\r\n<li>Roy, B. (2017) Aspiring for Universal Health Coverage through Private Care, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 52, Issue No. 16, 22 April<\/li>\r\n<li>Roy, B. (2016) Corporate Hospitals in India and Representation of Women\u2019s Medical Care, Indian Journal of Gender Studies, Vol. 23, No. 1.<b>\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\r\n<li>Roy, B. (2016) Introduction, Indian Journal of Gender Studies, Vol. 23 No. 1,<\/li>\r\n<li>Roy, B. (2014)\u00a0Restructuring and Shifting Boundaries: What does it mean for Maternal Health care?,\u00a0Samyukta\u00a0: A Journal of Women\u2019s Studies, Vol. XIV, No. 2.<\/li>\r\n<li>Karpagam, S.,\u00a0<b>Roy<\/b>,\u00a0<b>B.,<\/b>\u00a0Seethappa, V. K., &amp; Qadeer, I. (2013) Evidence Based Planning \u2013 A Myth or Reality: Use of Evidence by the Planning Commission on Public Private Partnership, Social Change, Vol. 43, No. 2, pp 213-226<\/li>\r\n<li>Roy, B., and Siddharta, Gupta, (2011) Public-Private Partnership and User Fees in Healthcare: Evidence from West Bengal, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. XLVI, No. 38, Sept. 17-23, pp 74-78.<\/li>\r\n<li>Roy, B. (2010) Outsourcing of Service Provisioning and Changing Employment Relationship in Public Sector Hospitals of West Bengal, The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Vol. 53 No.(2), pp 409-422<\/li>\r\n<li>Roy, B. (co-authored with Husain Z and S Ghosh) (2009) \u2018Top heavy\u2019 systems and quality of health care: A survey of select departments in R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital, India\u201d, Social Medicine, Vol.4, No.2<\/li>\r\n<li>Roy, B. Restructuring Public Sector Hospital Services: Marginalising the Poor available online at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esocialsciences.com\/\">http:\/\/www.esocialsciences.com<\/a><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p><strong><br \/>Book Chapters<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Roy B, (2022) Government Hospitals in India: Changing Landscape through Public-Private Partnerships as in Saxena K B (ed.) Private Sector Participation in Public Services: Health, Aakar Publication, New Delhi<\/li>\r\n<li>Roy B, Qadeer I, Sadgopal M, Chawla J, and Gautam S. (2021)\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/350279723_Giving_Birth_at_Home_in_Resource-Scarce_Regions_of_India_An_Argument_for_Making_the_Women-Centric_Approach_of_the_Traditional_Dais_Sustainable?_sg=1ikew2YqXbAX_F9Wlqoh3iyz__yBo3KnfjBzwjCjn1FXmO1J2KSycs29MRljZVA_XYXt8Un0qzDM5UXjwfDPIGVSJch4-SroBTSuKMse.RVqX8fRfeWrvo_ETk355L31ydp0zP1H5PuupDRBaUcM_okGAY9yVERQLd8L53ZzeX2PsAYNIH0cldUBq4vzGQA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Giving Birth at Home in Resource-Scarce Regions of India: An Argument for Making the Women-Centric Approach of the Traditional Dais Sustainable<\/a><\/em>\u00a0as in Gutschow K and Davis-Floyd R. (eds.) Sustainable Birth in Disruptive Times, Springer Series:\u00a0Global Maternal and Child Health\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-030-54775-2_15#citeas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-030-54775-2_15#citeas<\/a><\/li>\r\n<li>Role of Public-Private Partnerships in Ensuring Universal Healthcare for India in Qadeer I, Saxena KB and Arathi PM (eds) Universalising Healthcare in India: From Care to Coverage, 2019, Aakar Books, New Delhi<\/li>\r\n<li>(With Karpagam S, Vasan A, Gajraj E, Qadeer I) A Critical look at Public-Private Partnership dor Health Service in Karnataka in Qadeer I, Saxena KB and Arathi PM (eds) Universalising Healthcare in India: From Care to Coverage, 2019, Aakar Books, New Delhi<\/li>\r\n<li>Roy, B. (2015<i>)\u00a0Public Private Partnership in Healthcare: Trajectories and Experiences from West Bengal\u00a0<\/i>in\u00a0I Qadeer (Ed.) INDIA: Social Development Report 2014: Challenges of Public Health, Oxford University Publication, New Delhi.<\/li>\r\n<li>Qadeer, I., Roy, B., and Gautam, S. (2015) Must History repeat itself? The Role of Dais in Maternity Care in Backward Districts of Himachal Pradesh In Qadeer I (Ed.) INDIA: Social Development Report 2014: Challenges of Public Health, Oxford University Publication, New Delhi.<\/li>\r\n<li>Roy, B. (2010) User Fee Policy in West Bengal: A Case Study in Kelley Michele and Dsouza Deepika (Eds.), The World Bank in India: Undermining Sovereignty, Distorting Development, Orient Black Swan, New Delhi.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p><strong><br \/>Project Report<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><strong>2021<\/strong>\u00a0Roy B.\u00a0Maternity Care Provision, Medical Dominance and Healthcare Market in India, Centre for Women\u2019s Development Studies, New Delhi<\/li>\r\n<li><strong>2020<\/strong>\u00a0Roy B.\u00a0Healthcare Providers and the Covid-19 Crisis: Mapping Specific Experiences and Ground Realities in India. Centre for Women\u2019s Development Studies, and RLS South Asia, New Delhi.<\/li>\r\n<li><b>2016<\/b>\u00a0Singh, A.,\u00a0<b>Roy, B<\/b>., Qadeer, I., Chawla, J., Caleb, L., Sadgopal, M., and Gautam, S.\u00a0Establishing the Scope and Pattern of Care by Dais During and After Childbirth in Four Cultural and Geographic Settings in India: The Jeeva Project Study Report, CWDS, New Delhi.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p><strong>Book Review<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><b>2017<\/b>\u00a0Roy, B. Book Review: Sarah Hodges and Mohan Rao (Eds), Public Wealth and Private Wealth: Stem Cells, Surrogates and Other Strategic Bodies. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2016,\u00a0Indian Journal of Gender Studies\u00a0February, Vol.24, No.1.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p><strong><br \/>Occasional Paper:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><b><span lang=\"EN-IN\">2020\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span lang=\"EN-IN\">Roy, B. Community Health Workers: Gender, Work and Remuneration: A Study of South Asia, Occasional Paper No. 66, Centre for Women\u2019s Development Studies, New Delhi.<\/span><\/li>\r\n<li><b>2008<\/b>\u00a0Husain, Z., Ghosh, S., and Roy, B. Socio-Economic Profile of the Users in Public and Private Sector Hospitals of Kolkata, Occasional Paper No. 14, Institute of Development Studies Kolkata<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p><strong><br \/>Others<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><strong>2023<\/strong>\u00a0Roy, B.\u00a0(forthcoming)\u00a0Metro, Mobility and the Risks of Quick Bite,\u00a0Kloud9 Magazine<\/li>\r\n<li><strong>2023<\/strong>\u00a0Roy, B.,\u00a0Sandhya Gautam and Imrana Qadeer Birth Work, Knowledge and Caste: Traditional Birth Attendants in India, Medico Friend Circle Bulletin 381, p 25-29<\/li>\r\n<li><b>2018\u00a0<\/b>Roy, B.\u00a0Public Private Partnership \/ P3s in Health Sector in India, Medico Friend Circle Bulletin 379, July.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mfcindia.org\/mfcpdfs\/MFC379.pdf\">http:\/\/www.mfcindia.org\/mfcpdfs\/MFC379.pdf<\/a>\u00a0p 29-31<\/li>\r\n<li><b>2018<\/b>\u00a0Roy, B. Growing Informalisation of Workforce and Public sector Hospitals in India, Medico Friend Circle Bulletin 377-378, February.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mfcindia.org\/mfcpdfs\/MFC377-378.pdf\">http:\/\/www.mfcindia.org\/mfcpdfs\/MFC377-378.pdf<\/a>\u00a0p 24-26<\/li>\r\n<li><b>2017\u00a0<\/b>Roy, B.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thewire.in\/117527\/ppp-healthcare-health-policy\/\"><b>Why Public-Private Collaboration is Bad News for Healthcare in India<\/b><\/a>. The Wire.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thewire.in\/health\/ppp-healthcare-health-policy\">https:\/\/thewire.in\/health\/ppp-healthcare-health-policy<\/a>\u00a0March 20.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><\/ul>\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><\/ul>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contact:\u00a0bijoya@cwds.ac.in; bijoyaroy@gmail.com Education &nbsp; Ph.D., Centre for Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi M.Phil., Centre for Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi M.A. Social Work, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai I <a href=\"https:\/\/backupp.com\/cwds\/faculty-and-staff\/faculty-and-researchers\/bijoya-roy\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":221,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-170","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/backupp.com\/cwds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/backupp.com\/cwds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/backupp.com\/cwds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backupp.com\/cwds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backupp.com\/cwds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":84,"href":"https:\/\/backupp.com\/cwds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8383,"href":"https:\/\/backupp.com\/cwds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/170\/revisions\/8383"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backupp.com\/cwds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/backupp.com\/cwds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}