Nishpriha Thakur
Nishpriha Thakur is a cultural anthropologist who works at the intersection of markets and medical anthropology. She has worked as a research fellow on the Wellcome Trust funded project, ‘What’s at stake in the fake: Indian pharmaceuticals, African Markets and global health’ led by PIs Sarah Hodges and Julia Hornberger. Largely, her work has been in the areas of informal markets, urban development, pharmaceuticals and healthcare markets. Nishpriha is the recipient of a Wellcome Trust Early Career Award for her project ‘Middlemen in Global Health: Markets, Hospitals and Consultancies in North India’ which started in April 2026 at King’s College London.
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In many parts of the world, there is an increasing discomfort with middlemen in the healthcare industry (Pearl, 2024). They are characterized as greedy, profit seekers and vilified characters that put money before health and proliferate the markets with fake medicines, putting public health in danger (Kaprove R and M.D 2014, Rowland D 2021, Edema […]
Why should the figure of the middleman matter for scholars of global health? The short answer is: they are impossible to avoid. The long answer is as follows: Throughout the twenty-first century, claims have circulated that the global pharmaceutical supply chain is awash with fakes, and these claims sparked our curiosity. For nearly a decade, […]
