Anuradha has a master's in psychology. She has worked with vulnerable populations and provided psycho-social counselling and support for people living with HIV/AIDS and high-risk populations, including intravenous drug users, transgenders, migrants, truckers, female sex workers, link workers and men having sex with men. She also has experience working with the scavenging community.
Key Skills: Situational analysis, Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) for adolescents and adults.
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.
Nimisha is a Public Health professional with a background in research, planning, and evaluation of community-based health programs. She has served as a District Vector-Borne Disease Specialist, supporting project implementation and healthcare staff and ensuring effective program execution. She has also been an RA at the Indian Institute of Public Health, Shillong, contributing to optimising supplementary nutrition provisions for ICDS.
Key Skills: Data analysis, public health research, program management
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Juhi Singh is a trained Rehabilitation and Public Health Professional with a Master’s in Public Health (MPH), specializing in Epidemiology. She brings over five years of dynamic experience working at district-level positions in Aspirational Districts across Bihar, Assam, and Chhattisgarh with leading organizations such as Care India, UNICEF, and JHPIEGO. Her programmatic expertise spans Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child, and Adolescent Health and Nutrition (RMNCAH+N) and strongly emphasizes quality improvement and stakeholder engagement.
Key Skills: Program Management, Stakeholder Management, Epidemiology, Immunization, Training, and Capacity Building.
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.
