Priya Nanda Email & Phone Number

I am a feminist researcher, strategist with gender and SRHR expertise as well skills in evaluation, research and program implementation. I have over two decades of research and philanthropic experience in analyzing and designing policies and programs that solve complex gender norms and health systems problems from a gender lens. Till recently from 2017 to April 2023, I was a Senior Program Officer with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation at the India Country office in the Measurement Learning and Evaluation team, where I led a portfolio of research on health systems strengthening and family planning with a focus on gender, social norms and equity. Prior to joining the Foundation, I was the Director of the Social and Economic Development group for the International Center for Research on Women's (ICRW) Asia Regional Office in New Delhi, India from 2006 to 2016. In my role at ICRW, I led research, policy and programmatic work on issues related to gender equality and poverty reduction, with a focus on the intersections between economic and health issues. My skills include research, designing indicators for measurement and evaluation of women’s economic empowerment and access to health services, including reproductive and sexual health. I have had a decade of experience on conceptualizing, designing and evaluating programs for adolescent girls’ empowerment and was also the Co-Director of the ODI led research consortium on Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence from 2014 to 2016. I am also an adjunct faculty at the University of North Carolina, Department of Maternal and Child Health. I am also a recent alumnus of the Women Lift Health Leadership program, and its first India Alumni lead.I have a PhD in health economics from the Johns Hopkins University, a MIA from Columbia University and a MA and BA in economics from the University of Delhi/Delhi School of Economics. I like to explore art, quaint places, music from distant and remote lands, read and write short stories and poems. If I wasn't a researcher in the area of public health, I may have travelled to document how music and art traverse spaces and cultures remaining unique and yet blending in the other.