Nanda Kishore Kannuri is an Associate Professor at the Department of Anthropology, University of Hyderabad. He has about 25 years of work experience in the social development sector and academia. Before joining the University of Hyderabad, he was a Professor of Social and Behavioural Sciences at the Indian Institute of Public Health, Hyderabad. The areas of his interest include Medical Anthropology, Mental health and well-being, Marginality, Multispecies ethnography, One Health and Sustainability.