Kiran Kumbhar

Kiran Kumbhar is a historian, writer, and former physician, working primarily on the history of medicine and public health in modern India. His Ph.D. dissertation explored the problem of "declining" public trust in biomedical doctors and highlighted the major role that caste-based privilege has played in the history of the Indian medical profession. He is currently working on a book manuscript based on the dissertation. He has taught courses in the history of science, history of medicine and public health, and South Asian history at Harvard, Yale, and Johns Hopkins. Kiran also works to bring academic scholarship into the larger public discourse through writing and podcasting. In 2022-23 he worked with the Suno India platform on a podcast series: "Becoming Modern: Healthcare and History in India." His writings have been published in The Wire, Scroll, The Hindu, The Times of India, fiftytwo, The Swaddle, and Quartz.