Asha Hegde Email and Phone Number

Talented, visionary doctor with 25+ years of high-impact experience of working in hospitals, clinics, and treatment centres across India. Expert in HIV pathology, treatment, and prevention. Rose from facility to national level after 9 years following innovative and successful leadership of Elimination of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV program. Highly-skilled national public policy director who designed community-based HIV testing policy. Has proven record in maternal and paediatric healthcare. Strong education and professional experience and management skills in HIV epidemiology, health care, and family medicine. Excellent academic and practical record; passed fellowship in HIV with distinction and recognized for most distinguished project. Notable publication history with background writing of conference abstracts and presentations. Fluent in English, Hindi, and Marathi and familiar with spoken Tulu and Kannada.Coordinated as Team leader for the development of the National Strategic Plan for HIV/AIDS for 2017-24.Participated as a member of Indian Team (5- member team) visiting Thailand for EMTCT (Elimination of Mother to Child Transmission) learning workshop in June 2018.Member of WHO HQ Technical Working Group for HIV Self Testing, Geneva, since June 2018. Was a participatory speaker on HIV Self Testing in a web seminar slotted for July 3rd, 2018, hosted by Geneva HQ.Member of WHO HQ Guideline Development Group for HIV Testing Services Guidelines 2019, Geneva, since September 2018. Will be participating in IAS 2019 Conference during July 2019, in New Mexico.