Dipa Sinha teaches Economics at the School of Liberal Studies, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University Delhi (AUD). 

Her areas of research include public policy, food and nutrition rights, public health, and gender. She has been involved in academic as well as policy research on these topics for the last twenty years, in different capacities. She has worked as an independent researcher and has led a number of primary studies evaluating programs such as the Public Distribution System, child-related nutrition programs, and maternity entitlement schemes. She worked with the Office of Commissioners to the Supreme Court (on the Right to Food). She also has been part of large multi-country research teams including the study on Food Riots and Food Rights (hosted at the Institute for Development Studies, Sussex). She was a member of the project team of the High-Level Panel of Experts (HLPE) of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS), FAO for the report on Nutrition and Food Systems. 

Dipa also contributes regularly to academic as well as popular publications.