I am working as a freelance International consultant on program management issues:
Specialties: Monitoring and Evaluation of programmes and policies, Policy Briefing, Advanced multivariate and multilevel analysis, Designing Sample Surveys, Sampling, Research Design, Statistical and Demographic Analysis, Operations Research, MIS dashboard development and visualizations.
Dr. Vishal D. Shastri,
MPS, Ph.D.
Phone: +91-9999464379 (India)/+91-8178796675(India)/+1-(414) 909-9007 (Global)
Key Skills
- Gender, Public Health & Nutritional Professional, Demographer and Global development MLE professional with 20+ years’ experience.
- I am a Demographer/Bio-Statistician with a doctoral degree (Ph.D.) in Population Studies from International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai, India (2002). My doctoral dissertation/area of specialization was about Reproductive Health/Morbidities among young women in rural areas. Received UGC and Ford foundation fellowships for the doctoral work.
- Prior to my doctoral degree in Population Studies, I have completed Master’s Degree in Population Studies (Demography) from IIPS Mumbai, India (1995).
- Completed advance certificate courses in Bio-Statistics (“Advance Statistics for Life Sciences” and “Statistics and R for the Life Sciences”) from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health;
- Completed “Advance Specialization in Data Sciences” from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
- Successfully completed certificate courses in Global Health topics (1- M&E Fundamentals; 2 - Gender M&E and 3- Knowledge Management (KM) in Global Health Programs) from Global Health e-Learning Center, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
- Have worked with various International development agencies for over 20+ years on gender and woman's related issues viz. Women's health, Maternal & Child Nutrition, Tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, Girls education, Domestic violence. Have expertise in program management, monitoring & evaluating donor funded programs on Maternal & Child Health and Nutrition, Gender issues including women’s health & education, domestic violence; Strategic Communication including ICT, Rural Development, Education, & Climate Change domains in India, Tanzania & other South Asian & East African countries.
- Have worked in the pharmaceutical space and efficiently managed large private sector project on Diarrhoea & Pneumonia related essential medicines, its Sales & Marketing operations, MIS, Management/Strategy, Supply Chain Planning, Sourcing & Procurement, conducting retail audits for market share, conducting mystery client/standardized patient interviews, evaluation research etc.
- Served as an expert committee member (constituted by Statistics Division, MoHFW) for family planning ELA estimations for India and States,
- Have authored several journal articles, book chapters and scientific reports; and serves as reviewer of several international journals.
Specialties: Monitoring and Evaluation of programmes and policies, Policy Briefing, Advanced multivariate and multilevel analysis, Designing Sample Surveys, Sampling, Research Design, Statistical and Demographic Analysis, Operations Research, MIS dashboard development and visualizations.
