Kanika Sharma's research interests are in gender, social inequality, and health. She has an M.A. in Social Work from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences and an M.Phil in Social Sciences in Health from Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her M.Phil dissertation focused on the theme of gender and pain from an interdisciplinary public health perspective. Kanika has been involved with social movements and rights campaigns in India. She is interested in combining research and action in areas of health and wellbeing, and issues of social and gender justice. Her writings on activism and research have been featured in popular media, including The Hindu , Scroll.in , and Youth Ki Awaaz . As a Public Policy Scholar at the Hindu Centre, she studied women's lived experiences of physical pain, the social and health system support available to them, and the possible health policy responses to this largely neglected area.