Nishtha Bharti
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Nishtha is a Research Fellow with the CELS-Oxford group on the EPPiGen project, a Wellcome Trust funded study exploring ethical preparedness in genomic medicine.
Nishtha’s research is situated within the inter-disciplinary terrain of Science and Technology Studies (STS) and she combines it with her previous training and teaching experience in Political Science. Prior to joining CELS, she has engaged with techno-scientific trajectories in healthcare (particularly digital, data-driven technologies and Artificial Intelligence) and their unfolding across diverse socio-political contexts and transcontinental sites. Through her collaborations she has also looked at the politicisation of specific COVID drugs to understand the peculiarities of crisis governance and to analyse how knowledge claims are legitimised.
Her doctoral research focussed on the tensions inherent in the ideation, development and deployment of AI applications in the realm of healthcare in India and investigated the viability of AI-mediated and precision medicine-led visualisations in India’s healthcare provisioning.
In her broader research pursuits, her enquiries span the shifting socio-political logics, contested values and competing epistemic frames in healthcare reforms through emerging technologies.