Devika Mehra Email & Phone Number

Sweden

Malmö, Skane County, Sweden

• Lead quantitative researcher responsible for tool development, monitoring and evaluation, program management and evidence generation for a project on preventing sexual violence against youth in India funded by.
• Lead quantitative researcher for improving mental wellbeing and resilience of young mothers and adolescents through a community led approach within Government of India’s RMNCHA (Reproductive, maternal, new born, child.
• Researcher in a project on understanding the impact of Corona virus pandemic on women: An intervention on women frontline health workers (FHW) in Delhi with Price water house coopers (PWC) funded by Japan International.
• Conducted a Desk review and prioritization of issues for WHO (Geneva) with Mamta-himc and CARE Afghanistan to provide technical assistance on the adolescent youth health situation in Afghanistan, with particular.
• Contributed to the Global action for Measurement of Adolescent Health (GAMA) group on reviewing the global indicators on adolescent health for WHO Geneva
• Contributed to the National document on strengthening midwifery services in India with Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in India.

Sweden

• Co-Principal investigator for prevention of sexual and gender based violence and Mental health prevention project in Nepal, funded by the Swedish Research Council (VR) in partnership with Karolinska Institute, Stockholm.
• Contributed in suggesting new measures for the ‘World Value Survey’ Wave 7 2020 for India on social norms related to Women’s Economic Empowerment with University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and Karolinska Intitute.
• Consultant to WHO (Geneva) for conducting a systematic review on the health and social needs of child brides and the approacheto respond to their needs in low and middle income countries (LMIC)
• Consultant for Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) to conduct a systematic review of interventions in LMICs to increase young people’s access to services, for reducing their risk to HIV and for.
• Systematic review of the interventions in adolescent key populations and its linkage with sexual and reproductive health and HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa and South East Asia for Mamta-Himc (India)
• Prepared a business and operational plan for Eastern and Southern Africa for understanding the situation of key populations and adolescents living with HIV on Sexual Reproductive Health and HIV related issues.

Malmo, Sweden

• Evaluation of a project on addressing child marriage and delay of early pregnancy through a district level convergence approach in two high prevalence districts of India which funded by the European Union (EU)
• Participated in planning, execution, documentation for an International conference on Health literary and communication for newly arrived migrants in Sweden with Länsstyrelsen
• Associate course leader in the Global Public Health course for Masters of Public Health students
• Conducted research activities in the National Training Programme (NTP) on Youth friendly health services which was a collaboration between Lund University, Mamta-himc and NIHFW (National Health Institute for Health and.
• Collected qualitative data from Medical officers and health workers for the project on Adolescent friendly health services and Non- communicable conditions (ARSH-NCC) in India (Himachal Pradesh) funded by SIDA.

Malmö

• Lectured the Medical students on family planning, gender-based violence and abortions, within the Global Health course.
• Lectured in the course on Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights, on my experiences from South Africa on youth friendly health services within the Master’s Programme on Public Health.

New Delhi Area, India

• Created an MIS (Management Information System) framework for quantitative and qualitative reporting.
• Developed training modules for a project on adolescent-friendly health services with Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR), Finland.
• Monitored the operation of the Youth Information Centre’s under the SIDA (Swedish International Development cooperation agency)-sponsored project at our intervention areas in India.

New Delhi Area, India

• Provided assistance in research and project monitoring with partners in Gender and HIV/AIDS programme.
• Contributed to concept notes and project reports.
• Represented the organization by giving presentations and participating in panel discussions at NGOs and colleges for sensitizing and creating awareness on gender and HIV issues.
• Participated as a moderator in the working group sessions of the Biennial conference on ‘Governance and Eradication on Violence against women’ held in Delhi in 2008.

New Delhi Area, India

• Coordinating and organizing a National convention on HIV/AIDS and XVI International HIV/AIDS conference held in Toronto, Canada in 2006.

New Delhi Area, India

• Contributed in preparing a manual in collaboration with NACO (National AIDS control Organization) on ‘SAMVAD for Young people on HIV/AIDS’.
• Assisting the strategy in carrying out advocacy efforts in reaching out to the key stakeholders for integrating young people’s reproductive and sexual health issues into programmes.
• Conceptualizing of various innovative concepts for setting up Adolescent health clinics.

New Delhi Area, India

• Summarized and edited international news for UNICEF on health issues like polio, female feticide, HIV/AIDS, safe motherhood, child abuse, sex education as portrayed in the print media.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Public Health

•PhD research focused on ‘Sexual behavior among Ugandan University students: A gender perspective’. List of Publications: •Mehra D, Agardh.

Msc. International Health Management And Development

•Master’s research was on ‘An assessment of young people’s experience of ‘Chill Room’ in the South African NAFCI (National Adolescent.

Bachelor'S Degree, English (Hons)