DR SYLVIA KARPAGAM BOOKS

Dr. Sylvia Karpagam is an Indian public health doctor, general practitioner, researcher and author known for her work on healthcare access, nutrition, social justice and human rights. Based in Bengaluru, she has extensive experience examining how social inequalities, caste, gender and economic conditions influence people's access to healthcare and nutritious food. She has collaborated with several organisations, including Amnesty International, the World Health Organization and various human rights groups, focusing particularly on the needs of marginalised and indigenous communities. She is actively associated with the Right to Health and Right to Nutrition campaigns in Karnataka and has contributed numerous articles to mainstream media and peer-reviewed journals. Her research highlights inequalities within India's healthcare system and challenges conventional perspectives on food and nutrition. She is the author of The Meat of the Matter: How the Politics of Food Shapes Our Health, published by HarperCollins India