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Dr Chattopadhyay’s research, teaching, and advocacy in the last 17 years can be broadly divided into three interlinked themes: 1) Gendered violence such as domestic and sexual violence in India. 2) Unmasking intersectional inequities including those emanating from health systems that tend to disproportionately affect religious minorities and indigenous populations. 3)Analyses of reproduction using a political ecology and a biocultural approach that disentangles the contributions of global health initiatives, local-level technocratic interventions, environmental degradation leading to increasing food insecurity, and the social determinants of health. She has received several international grants such as awards from the National Science Foundation, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, and the Population Reference Bureau to support her work. She has published in multiple international peer-reviewed journals. Her book The Gravity of Hope, which examines the interlinkages between domestic and structural violence, was published in 2024. Her research has also been covered by the national press in India, as well as internationally by the BBC. She has worked for the government, academia, and non-profits in India, the US, and the UK. She is deeply invested in translational research so that research insights can be disseminated to the public and policymakers for greater impact, and writes extensively for independent digital platforms and the popular press. Her current research has three interconnected strands that foregrounds reproductive justice: discourses of respectful maternity care in the context of institutional births in India, reasons for non-reproduction in urban India and feminist epistemology in bioethics.