Asifa is a dedicated public health professional with a specialisation in RMNCH+A. She has a strong track record of counselling, managing, and enhancing adolescent health, child health, and women's programs in rural pockets of Bihar.
Key Skills: Project management and Capacity Building
Kaushik has been associated with the WASH department of the Government of Jharkhand for 8 years. At PHIA Foundation he has led state teams for over five years having developed intervention strategies and water security plans for the districts of West Singhbhum and Khunti.
Key Skills: Programme implementation, time-bound outcome-based delivery, advocacy, capacity building and IEC/BCC
Mallikarjuna is a postgraduate in Business Management (MBA) in Finance from the University of Mysore. With 12 years of diverse experience across various organisations and projects. He has successfully led training programs, organised impactful public awareness campaigns, and mobilized resources for initiatives such as the "Smoke-Free Bengaluru Initiative".
Key Skills: Coordination in government and private entities, working closely with government officials, fostering collaboration and facilitating constructive discussions.
Debarghya Chakraborty is a public health professional with over 3.5 of experience. His work spans public health, migration, RMNCH+A, and climate change across various states in India. He is UGC-NET qualified, a GoI fellowship recipient, and a winner of the IITB-ISRO-AICTE Mapathon. Throughout his career, he has worked closely with state governments, central ministries, NHM, NHSRC, and various development partners.
Dhanlaxmi Suresh Gowda is a passionate public health professional with diverse experience across various sectors, including NCDs, HIV, and HCV. Her work has involved engagement at different levels of health care delivery, especially in tribal and rural areas. She has worked with AddressHealth and SELCO Foundation on project management and health technology assessment initiatives under the Energy for Health project. During her time in the Public Health Administration division at NHSRC, she has contributed to developing guidelines and framework documents, strengthening health care facilities’ climate resiliency, and analysing data to aid policy decisions.
Apart from being a IHCRF fellow, she aslo possesess Youth for Governance Fellow from GRAAM, Mysuru, an experience that deepened her understanding of participatory policy processes. She has also represented India at the UNESCO Youth Boot Camp in Italy.
Kanishtha Kujur blends research, strategy, and creativity to build sustainable, community-driven solutions. Her experience spans qualitative research and service design in public health and social behaviour change programmes as well as organisational and digital transformation projects.
She holds a Bachelor’s in Textile Design from the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, and a Master’s in Strategic Design from Politecnico di Milano, Italy. With expertise in human-centred design and systems thinking, she focuses on making innovation accessible and impactful.
Sumit Khalkho is passionate about working in close engagement with the community to address public health challenges. He has been working in the field of community health for more than 10 years, both as a grassroots worker and in leadership roles, leading projects on MCH/RCH, SHGs, Climate Change, Disaster Preparedness & Relief Operations, HIV/AIDS, Mental Health, etc. in Bihar.
Prior to the IHCRF Fellowship, Sumit worked with Duncan Hospital, Raxaul (a Unit of Emmanuel Hospital Association) in the capacity of Manager for Research & Epidemiology, facilitating clinical studies, community-based studies, disease surveillance, reporting, and auditing facility-based maternal deaths.
Sumit is a postgraduate in Public Health.
