Global Public Health & Nutrition Researcher and Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Consultant
Key Skills
- Gender, Public Health & Nutritional Professional, Demographer and Global development MLE professional.
- Nearly 20+ years of experience in health and development, specializing in nutrition, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health (RMNCH+A), gender, and reproductive health and rights.
- Experience in strategic planning and program implementation, development of policy and advocacy strategies and activities, strengthening of community development approaches, and designing and facilitation of capacity building and training programs for both government and NGOs.
- Have worked with partners across government, UN agencies, bilateral donors, and international development support agencies and other civil society actors including academia 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.
- I am a Demographer/Bio-Statistician with a doctoral degree (Ph.D.) in Population Studies (with specialization in young women’s reproductive health issues) from International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai, India (2002). 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 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; Designing and implementing
Sample Surveys, evaluations, RCTs, Operations & Implementation Research;
Capacity Building; Policy Briefing, Development of visualization tools, GIS maps and dashboards, Development of offline and online tools (ODK and SurveyCTO) to collect large scale survey data and routine program
monitoring; Big data analytics using Tableau, R, Stata and SPSS; Advanced multivariate and multilevel analysis; Statistical
and Demographic Analysis; Population and Family Planning Projections using Demproj, Famplan, LiST and other demographic tools.
