Vandana Kumar Email & Phone Number

New Delhi Area, India

List of projects• Strengthening comprehensive primary healthcare in Maharashtra - Creating a model district (PATH India)• Evaluation of all centrally sponsored schemes in health sector (EY/NITI Aayog)• Project ‘Tej’ - Taking innovative health technologies to the last mile through strengthening of Indian MedTech ecosystem (Xynteo/Government of Telangana)• 2010 – 2018: G2P health payments project (IFC, World Bank Group) - implementing an innovative solution for streamlining… Show more List of projects• Strengthening comprehensive primary healthcare in Maharashtra - Creating a model district (PATH India)• Evaluation of all centrally sponsored schemes in health sector (EY/NITI Aayog)• Project ‘Tej’ - Taking innovative health technologies to the last mile through strengthening of Indian MedTech ecosystem (Xynteo/Government of Telangana)• 2010 – 2018: G2P health payments project (IFC, World Bank Group) - implementing an innovative solution for streamlining health payments under NHM.• Evaluation of ‘Free Diagnostics Service Initiative’ & ‘Free Drugs Service Initiative’ in Assam & Chhattisgarh (WHO)• Formulation of national guidelines for strengthening Free Diagnostics Service Initiative of Government of India (WHO)• Formulation of National Essential Diagnostics List (WHO)• Evaluation of a PPP scheme - Free Diagnostics Service Initiative in Andhra Pradesh (WHO)• Leading strategy and designing of health IT solutions (Triotree Technologies)• Process documentation for interventions under Madhya Pradesh Health Sector Reforms Programme (NRMC/FHI 360)• Impact assessment of the Integrated Child Development Services in Madhya Pradesh (Sambodhi/DFID)• Evaluation of ‘Global Poverty Action Fund' project on improving maternal health’ in 6 states (NRMC /Oxfam India)• G2P payments Diagnostic Study: Health Payments in Bihar (IFC)• Situation Analysis of School Health & Nutrition in India in 4 states (PCD, Imperial College London)• Where There is No Doctor project - formative research in 4 states in India (Sambodhi/Johns Hopkins University)• Assessing prevalence & intensity of STHs among school-age children in Bihar (Deworm the World and Govt of Bihar)• Role of UID in strengthening public health system in India (Dell International Services)• Developing frameworks for private sector participation to operate Emergency Medical Transport Services (EY & NHM, Uttar Pradesh)• Community-based Deworming in Andhra Pradesh (Deworm the World/SKS Microfinance) Show less

New Delhi Area, India

New Delhi

Designed and raised funds for a ‘Contraceptive helpline’ project in Uttar Pradesh (funded by USAID)

• Worked on a ‘Global Health Project’ which involved impact evaluation of 22 innovative health and health-related projects in 20 countries across various regions (funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation)• Worked on designing and piloting of an innovative IT-based solution - ‘Health Smart Card’ (funded by GFATM under Round 4 of funding)• Worked on a project on Tuberculosis - Project ‘ACTION- Advocacy to Control Tuberculosis Internationally’ (funded by the RESULTS Educational… Show more • Worked on a ‘Global Health Project’ which involved impact evaluation of 22 innovative health and health-related projects in 20 countries across various regions (funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation)• Worked on designing and piloting of an innovative IT-based solution - ‘Health Smart Card’ (funded by GFATM under Round 4 of funding)• Worked on a project on Tuberculosis - Project ‘ACTION- Advocacy to Control Tuberculosis Internationally’ (funded by the RESULTS Educational Fund)• Provided key technical inputs and analysed data for various research activities in the organisation like annual budget exercise, tracking Indian economy, policy and planning etc. Show less

• Led the ‘Advocacy and Infrastructure component’ of the Project ‘Access to Care and Treatment’ (funded by GFATM under Round 4 of funding) • Prepared several proposals for organisations funding work in the area of public health• Supervised workshops on ‘Training of nurses and laboratory technicians in HIV/AIDS’

Evaluated and managed critically ill patients, performed and assisted several emergency procedures, and trained nurses on delivering quality health care.

Evaluated and managed patients admitted in the wards, emergency and ICU, organised and attended several health camps in the hospital and in the communities

Mba, Health Care Administration

M.B.B.S, Medicine