Dr Mala Ramanathan (she/her) is a Professor at the Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies (AMCHSS), SCTIMST, Thiruvananthapuram. She has completed her Master’s in Statistics (MSc) from the University of Madras, Chennai and has another Masters in Medical Anthropology (MA) from the University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam. She is a trained demographer with an MPhil and PhD in Population Studies from the International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai. She has also completed her Fellowship in Research Ethics from the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston as part of an NIH initiative. She has been faculty at the AMCHSS for 26 years where she has been teaching Gender issues in Health, Qualitative Research Methods, Anthropological Perspectives in Health and Ethics in Health Research. She is also currently one of the Working Editors of the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics, a leading Bioethics journal that is published quarterly in India by the Forum for Medical Ethics Society, Mumbai. She is also visiting faculty for Research and Public Health Ethics across several transnational NIH-supported training programmes in Bioethics. Dr Mala has more than 50 publications in national and international journals in her area of interest and brings to the training, her rich experience of research, teaching and mentoring students in health research.

Dr Ajay Bailey is a Professor of Transnational Mobilities at the Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Utrecht University in the Netherlands. He leads the research line Global Migration, Culture and Place working at the interface of anthropology, geography, demography and public health. He holds the prestigious Dr T.M.A. Pai Endowed Chair in Qualitative Methods at Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India, named after Dr Tonse Madhav Ananth, the founder of the university. With his Chair, he coordinates the Transdisciplinary Center for Qualitative Methods – a joint initiative with Manipal Academy of Higher Education. To develop this research line he has been awarded more than €1.5 million in grant funding by a number of organizations such as NWO/Dutch Organization for Scientific Research, Ubbo Emmius Foundation, Gratama Foundation, amongst others. As an anthropologist and a cultural demographer, he has produced more than 30 top peer-reviewed international publications; one highly cited monograph; and has supervised nine PhD researchers. He is passionate about qualitative research, teaching, and capacity building of young researchers. His work significantly contributes to expanding the field of transnational mobilities, ageing, inter-generational relations, health systems research, health services, reducing barriers to care, while establishing meaningful North–South and South–South collaborations.

Dr. H. Arokkiaraj holds a PhD in Social Work from the University of Delhi. Prior to joining RGNIYD, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Leibniz Science Campus, Germany. He also worked as a research affiliate at the School of Social Sciences at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. During different periods he worked at the Centre for Development Studies, Kerala. Further, he also worked as a research intern at the India Centre for Migration (ICM) at the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), India. At present, he is jointly coordinating India’s country case inventory on mobility and COVID-19 for the Mobility, Livelihood, and Wellbeing Lab (MoLab) at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany. He has also widely published on international labour migration from India to Gulf countries. His research interests include international labour migration, student mobility, and human trafficking, particularly in Gulf countries and intra-Asia.

Dr Nikhil P N holds a master’s degree in Social Work from the Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady, Kerala and Population Studies from the International Institute for Populations Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai, India. For this doctoral pursuit, he has received Ubbo Emmius scholarship from the University of Groningen, The Netherlands and Prof. VKRV Rao fellowship from Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC) Bangalore, India. Based on this book, he holds a PhD in demography from the The University of Groningen, The Netherlands. In the last few years, he is involved in teaching and training students/researchers in qualitative research methods. He coordinated various qualitative research programs such as Certificate Course in Qualitative research methods, summer school/winter school/ workshop on Advanced qualitative methods for Transdisciplinary Centre for Qualitative Methods (TCQM), Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India.

Dr. Ambuja Kowlgi leads qualitative research at KHPT. She is an anthropologist by training. She has worked with national and international researchers, NGOs, and institutes for more than a decade, and has extensive experience in qualitative research. She is currently working in the areas of gender-based violence, preconception nutrition, comprehensive primary health care assessment, and early childhood care and development.

Dr. Sharada Srinivasan is Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Gender, Justice and Development, Department of Sociology & Anthropology at the University of Guelph. Her research is located within the broad field of gender and development and has a strong focus on social justice. She has explored gender discrimination, violence, generational dynamics, well-being and empowerment through research on sex ratio imbalance, daughter discrimination, and related gendered practices, domestic violence, and youth and farming. She is interested in exploring masculinities among young men in India and the Indian and South Asian diaspora in Canada. She is currently the Director of the Canada India Research Centre for Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE) and also co-facilitate the People’s Archive of Rural Ontario (PARO).