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Health

School of Social and
Behavioural Sciences

ViSION

Our vision is to reduce physical and mental health issues in the community especially among children, adolescents, aged and other vulnerable populations.

MISSION

Our mission is to design interventions for the preventive and promotive aspects of health in the community.

Thematic Areas

Human Health & Well-Being: Medicine, Engineering, Computing, Management, Social and Behaviorial

Integrated Health & Well-Being: Predictive, Personalised, and Preventive

Public Health Interventions for Community Well-Being: Proactive Management Perspectives

TEAM Members

Dr. Priya V. 
TAG Lead
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Child And Adolescent Mental Health, Workplace Mental Health, Health and Livelihood of Tribes, Resilience and Stress Management, Special Children and Mental Health of Parents, Health of Fishing Community
v_priya@cb.amrita.edu

Dr. Rangasami P.
Vice-Principal and HOS, Department of Social Work, Coimbatore
Research Interests: Child Protection Child Rights, Disaster Management, HIV/AIDS, Migration, NGO Management
p_rangasami@cb.amrita.edu

⁠Dr. S. Kalyani
Vice-Principal and HOS
Faculty of Arts, Humanities, and Commerce
Coimbatore
Research Interests: Sustainability, Technology, and Health
s_kalyani@cb.amrita.edu

Dr. Sowndaram C. S .
Counsellor; Student Welfare
Research Interests: Counselling, Physical Exercise for Relaxation and Menstrual Health, Mindfulness, Stress Reduction
cs_sowndaram@cb.amrita.edu

Dr. S. Kanagaraj
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Disability Issues, Disaster Management, GIS & Rural Development, Social Welfare Policy, Sustainable Rural Development, Women Empowerment, Youth Development
s_kangaraj@cb.amrita.edu

T. Sathishkumar
Lecturer at the Department of Social Work
Coimbatore
Research Interests: Climate Change, Community Development, Corporate Social Responsibility, NGO Management, Rural and Urban Programmers, Social Welfare
t_sathishkumar@cb.amrita.edu

Dr. Parvathy V.
Head of Department, Department of Social Sciences
Research Interests: Mental Health and Well-Being, Psycho-Social Approaches and Interventions in Health Settings, Application of Strengths Perspective, Resilience & Alcohol Misuse, Spirituality in Social Work and Self-Development, Social Work Methods, Social Work Research
parvathyn@am.amrita.edu

Dr. Priyesh Kumar Singh
Assistant Professor, Department of Cognitive Sciences and Psychology
Research Interests: Specifically: Management and treatment of pathologies especially psychogenic non-epileptic seizure patients from a cognitive paradigm. Broadly: Health Psychology; Evolutionary Psychology; Neuropsychology and counseling psychology ( science of happiness).
priyeshks@am.amrita.edu

Publications 2022 – 2025

  • Karthikeyan, A., & Priya, V. (2025, January 16–19). Exploring the role of technology, gender, and their relationship between self-efficacy & academic performance [Conference presentation]. International Conference on Gender and Technology, Amritapuri, India. 
  • Ramakrishnan, R., Anirudhan, D., & Rangasami, P. (2025, January 16–19). Gendered tech fears, AI anxiety among adolescent students in Kerala, India [Conference presentation]. International Conference on Gender and Technology, Amritapuri, India. 
  • Saminathan, K., & Rosily, S. (2025, January 16–19). Gendered impacts of internet addiction on self-esteem and social anxiety: Exploring cultural shifts in education through technology [Conference presentation]. International Conference on Gender and Technology, Amritapuri, India. 
  • Saminathan, K., & Sandra, K. J. (2025, January 16–19). A comparative study on gender influence on frustration levels of secondary school students in a technologically evolving educational landscape [Conference presentation]. International Conference on Gender and Technology, Amritapuri, India. 
  • Nayana, N., Valsala, P., & Nair, V. (2025, January 16–19). Bridging the gap: Exploring gender differences in eSanjeevani adoption in Kerala [Conference presentation]. International Conference on Gender and Technology, Amritapuri, India. 
  • Lakshmi, G., Valsala, P., & Unnikrishnan, R. (2025, January 16–19). Understanding vulnerabilities in women’s health: Towards gender-inclusive digital innovations in health [Conference presentation]. International Conference on Gender and Technology, Amritapuri, India. 
  • Kapoor, S. L., Valsala, P., & Sen, A. J. (2025, January 16–19). Enhancing the scope of social work interventions for women substance users through technology and digital innovations [Conference presentation]. International Conference on Gender and Technology, Amritapuri, India.
  • Bavani, M., Von Lieres, J. S., Sowndaram, C. S., & Prasad, R. (2024, October). Online guided Integrated Amrita Meditation (IAM®) to Improve mental well-being and reduce perceived stress during COVID-19 in India. In 2024 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC) (pp. 446-453). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/GHTC62424.2024.10771539  
  • Raj, A., Valsala, P., & Unnikrishanan, R. (2024, March). Technological and sociocultural barriers to e-sanjeevani as a parallel means of health care: A narrative review. In 2024 5th International Conference on Innovative Trends in Information Technology (ICITIIT) (pp. 1-4). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICITIIT61487.2024.10580209 
  • Kanagaraj, S. (2022). Concurrent fieldwork in macro practice: Cases from the South Indian context. In R. Baikady, S. M. Sajid, V. Nadesan, & M. R. Islam (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of social work field education in the Global South (1st ed., pp. 65-75). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003270119-7 
  • Singh, P. K. (2025). Perceptual sensitivity of psychogenic nonepileptic seizure (PNES) patients. International Journal of Epilepsy. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0045-1802599  
  • Singh, P. K., Verma, K., Singh, A. R., & Gupta, S. (2024). Deciphering the puzzle: Exploring the etiology of psychogenic non-epileptic seizures. Health Sciences Review, 11, 100171. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hsr.2024.100171 
  • Aathira, T., Rangasami, P., & Narassima, M. S. (2023). Situational analysis and conceptual model development of crimes against women and children. International Journal of Sustainable Society, 15(1), 75-95. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJSSOC.2023.128361 
  • Singh, P. K., Chaurasia, R. N., Pratap, S., Tiwari, T., Mishra, V. N., & Singh, T. (2022). Effect of emotional valence on working memory of psychogenic non-epileptic seizure patients. Journal of Neurosciences in Rural Practice, 13(3), 521–524. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0042-1744557  
  • Rajalakshmi, S. A., Sowndaram, C. S., Ganesh, P., & Vasu, H. V. (2022). Job search during COVID-19: How online mindfulness intervention helped to reduce stress and enhance the self-esteem of the job seeker. F1000Research, 11, 955. https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.109523.2 
  • Valsala, P. & Devanathan, S. (2023). Mental resilience in the context of alcohol use—a qualitative study in a tribal community in South India, Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse, 22(1), 213-237. https://doi.org/10.1080/15332640.2021.1925195 
  • Valsala, P., & Menon, P. (2023). Psychospiritual basis of altruism: A review. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 63(3), 344-363. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022167819830517 
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