B Nalinihas a Ph.D. in Psychology from Andhra University. Her research interests include Health Psychology, Forced Migration and Climate Change. She has been awarded a ICSSR Doctoral Fellowship, a Fulbright Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowship, a College of Arts & Letters Visiting Fellowship, James Madison University, a Fellowship of the Royal Society of Arts, London, and a Fulbright Alumni Award. She is the Visakhapatnam Region Chapter Lead for Alumni of the US government sponsored programs.