Thalari Pavan Kumar is a doctoral candidate in Anthropology at the University of Hyderabad, working on the anthropology of human organ transplantation in Telangana. He has worked on multiple research projects for government and non-governmental agencies, focusing on occupational health innovations among farmers and on documenting the socio-cultural histories of various caste and tribal communities in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. His research interests include medical anthropology and material culture.