Nilanjana Ganguli

Nilanjana (Nell) Ganguli is a Doctoral candidate at York University’s Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change and a Graduate Scholar at the Dahdaleh Institute of Global Health Research. Her research employs participatory and systems-thinking methods to examine how climate-related shocks and stressors influence transactional sex dynamics in rural fishing communities in Malawi. Nell holds a master’s in environmental studies, a bachelor’s in biotechnology from York University, and eight years of corporate experience in mining and executive search. Beyond her doctoral studies, Nell contributes as a project manager, graduate research assistant, and grant writer with multiple Dahdaleh Institute teams focused on the intersection of climate change and health research.