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Raipur, Ct, In

Delhi, Dl, In

New Delhi, Delhi, India

CBGA is an independent think tank, registered as a non-profit, working for enhancing transparency and accountability in governance through rigorous analysis of policies and budgets, and fostering people's participation in public policy and accountability processes by demystifying them.

Sanitation Learning Hub is a participatory programme aimed at facilitating timely and actionable learning and research for improved sanitation across the needy settings of the world, housed at the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex. I am supporting the hub as their focal person for India, to inform them with grounded realities of the country and to shape and guide/advise them in the participatory research as well as methods that they are initiating.

India

PHRN is an Indian network of public health professionals and Individuals who work for building capacities of public health systems across the most needy geographies and populations of India. It also works on various health determinants. I am one of the co-founders of the network and currently the National Convenor, which is a voluntary position.

New Delhi, Delhi, India

I was mentoring the project teams on policy research aspects of the REAL (Rural Evidence And Learning) WATER research project, a global project in Indian and African settings. I have been supporting research work on community institutions for water supply, a narrative review of threats to rural water supply and various policy engagements under the project.

New Delhi, Delhi, India

Advising the WaterAid India Chief Executive and the Policy team, on matters related to policy research, advocacy, campaigns and pilot programming around Water, Sanitation, Hygiene, Health, Nutrition and education. Representing WaterAid India in various government programs and initiatives; national and international platforms such as the South Asia Conference on Sanitation and National WASH Conclave; various civil society networks and alliances such as the India Sanitation Coalition, Sustainable Sanitation Alliance; Sphere India Network; National Faecal Sludge Management Alliance and so on. Providing insights to the team in specific areas such as: Access to Piped Water Supply; Water Quality and Health; Water and Climate Change; Sanitation Workforce; Manual Scavenging; Accessible and Inclusive Sanitation; Sanitation Technologies; Environmental Health; Hygiene Behaviour Change; WASH in Schools, Child Care Centres and Health Care Facilities; Financing and Systems Strengthening for WASH; WASH Inequalities; and WASH Poverty; Sustainable Development Goals

New Delhi Area, India

WaterAid is an international non-profit organisation that works for ensuring provision of safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene services for everyone every where- it has several country units and member organisations across the world. In India, Jal Seva Charitable Foundation is the associate member of WaterAid and it works as WaterAid India with a national office and 4 regional offices, covering 12 states and over 50 districts. My work with WaterAid India as its Head of Policy was to spearhead its national water, sanitation and hygiene policy portfolio, with thematic and technical experts as team members leading and supporting different verticals. This team provided policy and technical support to national, state and district level governments across India, policy / technical guidance to WaterAid India's program team. Our work also included designing and running campaigns, public engagement and dissemination initiatives, networking and alliance building, development of policy and technical documents and so on. I worked very closely with international and national think tanks, academic / teaching institutions, UN and International development partners and other domain leaders as part of this assignment too. I served various government committees and expert groups as well, during this tenure.

New Delhi Area, India

PHFI is a national level public health organisation mandated with the setting up of Indian Institutes of Public Health in different part of the country. It is also involved in health systems support, research and policy for public health amongst other areas of work. Health Governance Hub is an interdisciplinary program of PHFI for research, capacity building and knowledge translation on critical aspects of health systems, policies and governance, specific to low and middle income country contexts- of which I am a co-founder. As Adviser, my specific tasks were to provide technical and managerial guidance to the Director and Senior Manager of the Health Governance Hub, providing mentoring inputs to research team leads and members, serve as a member of Executive/ Managerial Groups, and connecting the Health Governance Hub with state and civil society organisations and actors. In addition to this, I have been teaching in the Indian Institutes of Public Health as well, as adjunct faculty.

New Delhi Area, India

PHFI is a national level public health organisation mandated with the setting up of Indian Institutes of Public Health in different part of the country. It is also involved in health systems support, research and policy for public health amongst other areas of work. Health Governance Hub is PHFI’s interdisciplinary programme of research on critical aspects of health governance in low-income contexts, linked to capacity building and advocacy, of which I am a co-founder. The hub got a a team of multidisciplinary researchers and practitioners across various organisations. As Principal Fellow, my key responsibility was to provide overall guidance to the work initiated by the Health Governance Hub, provide mentoring inputs to various projects and researchers and to establish linkages with both government and civil society organisations and actors. In addition to this, I have been teaching in the Indian Institutes of Public Health as well, as adjunct faculty.

New Delhi Area, India

High Level Expert Group was a committee constituted by Planning Commission, Government of India to recommend a package for Universal Health Coverage in India, during 2011-12. PHFI hosted the secretariat for this committee and I was hired as a technical advisor to this group. My specific areas of contributions were (a) citizens participation (b) urban health (c) social determinants of health.

Ranchi Area, India

ICCHN, the centre for child health and nutrition under the ICICI foundation, as part of their MoU with National Health System Resource Centre, Child In Need Institute and Jharkhand Government, were supporting health systems strengthening in the state- with focus to the state-supported "Sahiyya" Community Health Volunteer initiative and the Village Health Committees. As Adviser and Mentor I facilitated and guided the work under this MoU by the Jharkhand State Health Mission Society and Child In Need Institute, towards setting up a resource institution and a state wide team for supporting community initiatives. Technical support and capacity building for health system changes like district health planning and human resource development included other areas of my significant contribution. As a result of these, Jharkhand State Health Resource Centre and VHC-Sahiyya Resource Centre were established in the state of Jharkhand.

Raipur Area, India

I am one of the founding members of SHRC Chhattisgarh, a unique state-civil society joint initiative formed in 2002, which is designated as additional technical capacity to the state health department of Chhattisgarh. It has been considered as a unique experiment in health sector reforms in India, with state officials and civil society experts came together to envisage and guide the health systems strengthening in the state- later, the National Rural Health Mission has accepted this as a model technical support institution for other states of the country. Key initiatives by SHRC include the Mitanin community health volunteer program comprising selection, training and deployment of over seventy thousand volunteers, the Swasth Panchayat Yojana with a state-wide hamlet level Health and Human Development Index for all local bodies of Chhattisgarh and the Jeevan Deep Participatory Hospital Development Programme for public health facilities. As one of the founders, I was was also the first State Programme Coordinator of SHRC, for the Mitanin Programme and other innovative schemes initiated. In 2004, I was promoted as the Chief Coordinator of the Institution, with a responsibility to look after all the various initiatives of the organisation and day to day administration. In 2006, I was also given the additional responsibility of the Director-in charge of SHRC. I left the full-time involvement with SHRC in 2008, for initiating a similar institution in the state of Jharkhand. From the inception, I am serving the Governing Board of SHRC as well, in different capacities.

New Delhi And Lucknow Area, India

BGVS is a national level peoples movement formed mainly for supporting National Literacy Mission- it ran several programs on literacy, education, gender equality, scientific temperament and self reliance. I was recruited to the BGVS from Kerala, after the successful total literacy campaign in Kerala wherein I was a Key Resource Person. My key responsibilities were to lead the activities in the state of Uttar Pradesh, and to support the BGVS initiatives in other north Indian states. I was supporting several programmes related to National Literacy Mission (Gyan Vigyan Jatha, Multimedia campaign for literacy, Strengthening Zila Saksharata Samitis, Jan Vachan Andlolan), Community Health (a Multi-sectoral Approach to Health, Jan Swasthya Samvaad, Bal Swasthya Chetna Abhiyan, Literacy to Health, Health to Literacy), child-centred education initiative (Joy of Learning, Bal Shiksha Maha Abhiyan, Bal Vachan Andolan), participatory rural development (Gaon ko Jano Gaon ko Badlo), initiatives for gender equality (Samata movement) and Science Popularisation (Cosmic Voyage Campaign during total solar eclipse and other awareness campaigns) with key contributions in planning, capacity building and program management. I was editor of several publications and reading material as well, published by BGVS (Jan Vigyan fortnightly on scientific temperament, Aksharbodh monthly on literacy and awareness, Ummid annual number and Aaina quarterly journal on Women issues, Aadhar annual number on pluralistic development). I was the Founding General Convener of Peoples Health Movement too, for Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand.

Chelakkara, Kerala, India

Akshara is one of the rural parallel education initiatives in Kerala, located at Chelakkara, Thrissur. Parallel colleges in Kerala support students from rural and interior locations who could not secure full-time admission in formal colleges or universities but registered as private students for pre-graduate, under-graduate and post-graduate studies, or those could not pass the final exams- accepting a nominal fees. Since the student load in Kerala for university studies are very high and the number of formal institutions were less, there are still large number of students depending on these institutions. Well-qualified youth from around the locality work as faculty in these institutions. In Akshara, we had batches run for two streams of Two Year Pre-Degree Certificate course, and two streams of Bachelors Degree course.

Masters In Public Health, Public Health

Activities and Societies: Public Health Association of South Africa (PHASA) Thesis: WHAT INFLUENCES LOCAL MENTORSHIP ARRANGEMENTS.

Graduation, English Language And Literature

Activities and Societies: SNGS College Pattambi and Sree Kerala Varma College Thrissur. Pre-Degree Certificate, Bachelors and Masters Degree