tribal health

Despite having the highest positivity rate in Maharashtra, Palghar’s Adivasi communities are sceptical about testing and vaccinations. Given existing challenges like poverty and malnourishment, the virus is not worth additional attention.

A look into how uranium mining impacts the lands, livelihoods, and health of Adivasi communities in Jharkhand.

A physician and public health specialist, Dr John Oommen shares insights from more than three decades of working on community health among Adivasi peoples, and reflects on why we need to rethink the dominant development paradigm.

India will struggle to achieve its Sustainable Development Goals without a focused, multi-stakeholder effort to improve the lives of tribal populations.

A thirty-year struggle against alcohol and tobacco—the ‘cholera and plague' of our times—demonstrates the destruction that addiction creates, and how this is no longer just a health issue, but a developmental issue.

The oppression of Adivasi peoples in their own lands, at the hands of outsiders, led a young student activist from Bombay to spend the next four decades of his life fighting for land and labour rights.

The report is the culmination of years of study by an expert committee, which examined how tribal communities in India suffer from inequity in healthcare, and how this gap can be bridged.