Meet Our team
"The Strength Of The Team Is Each Individual Member.
The Strength Of Each Member Is The Team"
- Phil Jackson
Besides this Core team of Experts, our team includes a large pool of additional consultants from different disciplines in different areas of health and development from across the different states in India.
Dr. S.N. Misra
Tropical Infectious Diseases & Public Health Expert
Senior Technical Advisor & Director
Tropical Infectious Disease and Public Health Expert with over 30 years of experience as a clinician and Public Health Expert. Has served as the Director, Project Head and Senior Management for different organisations (CHAI, Futures Group, PTCC) and has a good and varied experience of working with the National health programs, programs of UN agencies, International organisations and donor supported programs. Exemplary Leadership and Team building capabilities. Strongly supports an integrated approach to health and wellness.
Dr Shanta Misra
Health Communication & Wellness Expert
Director
Health Communications and wellness expert with about 20 years of experience in the health and development sector. Worked with UN agencies – UNAIDS, UNICEF and WHO SEARO as a content coordinator/communications consultant and the the Nurse’s training for the Global Fund supported INC – HIV,TB training project. A PhD in Alternative Medicine, she is Wellness Expert and has been practising Reiki and spiritual counselling with students and clients in India and abroad.
Dr. Dilip Vaswani
General Physician & Health Management Expert
A clinician and Public Health manager with over 38 years of experience. Ex Deputy Director in Mumbai AIDS Control Society, also, National ART Consultant for WHO, UNICEF and Regional Manager for Futures Group. Been a Corona warrior, in the frontline, managing cases during the pandemic.
Prof. Alka Gogate
Senior Microbiologist & Laboratory Medicine Expert
Prof. Gogate is a Microbiologist and Health Administrator with over 35 years of experience. Has been a Faculty in Microbiology and the Project Director of Mumbai AIDS Control Society. Worked with UNAIDS/WHO/Futures Group and other international organizations. Has been involved in different research work and publications of ICMR, WHO, CDC and UCSF.
Dr. Dipanjan Sujit Roy
Senior Advisor, Public Health & Health Systems
Senior public health professional with 30 years in health systems and public health medicine. Experience of academics and research, especially with ICMR. Been a faculty for Public Health Fellowship Program (CDC/SHARE India), WHO consultant in Timor-Leste. Experience of working in Asia, Africa, US and Europe and Latin America. Extensive expereince in HIV, TB, other Infectious and Non communcable diseases
Dr Jayanti Singh
Epidemiologist & Public Health Expert
20 years of experience in various health program of Government of India. Been the Program Manager with Gates Ventures and a Senior faculty and Local Review Board Member at Health and Human Rights, SIT-World Learning India/School for International Training. Independent Evaluation of National Leprosy Eradication Programme.
Dr Ruby Bansal
General Physician and Preventive Health Expert. HIV/Infectious Disease
With about 20 years as a Physican, experienced in HIV care and other infectious Diseases. Fellowship in HIV Medicine and Observer ship in Univ of Illinois, Chicago. Focus on Preventive health care and been conducting preventive health camps for several years.She has received multiple awards during her long professional career.
Sameer Peesapati
Technology and Program Design Expert, Toronto, Canada
CEO of Anooka, Chronic bone and joint condition management company in Canada. 12+ years in healthcare industry. 5 patents in kidney disease space. 6 FDA cleared products launched. 2 Population health apps launched.
Sweta Das
Media Advocacy, Strategy & Program Coordination & Community Engagement
Over 27 years of experience, in media, health and social development. Extensive experience in communication and advocacy strategies addressing vulnerable populations Designed content including audio/visual materials for innovative media Training across India and countries in West Africa. Worked with IAVI, Futures Group, Empower School of Health, ILO, UNDP etc. Produced documentaries and other audio-visual advocacy clips with CNBC-TV18 and other organisations.
Dr. Vishakha Misra
General Physician & Public Health expert
Regional Manager, Uttar Pradesh
Medical professional actively involved in Healthcare industry with over 18 years of extensive experience in Project Management and Technical Assistance, and liaison with Government and external agencies. Been a Team Leader in Technical support in Maternal Health, Newborn/Child health, TB, and HIV/AIDS. Actively involved in teleconsultation of Covid 19 patients and counselling of families in post recovery and rehabilitation.
Poornima Sharma
Social development, Training and Counselling Expert
A multi skilled and result oriented professional with 25 years of experience in the field of Public health and social development. Her core competencies include –health care operations, stakeholders engagement, training curriculum and content development, capacity building and counselling training. She has been with Futures Group and Abraaj Group as National Training Coordinator for nurses and community workers. She has worked as a Medical social workers in tertiary hospitals
Dr Jayanta Bora
Data Analyst and M&E Expert
Worked majorly on monitoring and evaluation, child health and mortality, education and fertility, and social and regional inequality in health. Been a researcher with the University of Economics and Business, Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital, Vienna, and International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria.
Satyanarayan Mohapatra
Nutrition & Dietetics Expert.
Regional Manager, Odisha
Dietetics and nutrition expert. Combines nutrition with good health and wellbeing. Well versed in training of Hotel management staff on Health and nutrition. Been associated with Immunity boosting food, super-foods and dietary requirement for people with special needs Visiting faculty at the School of Hotel Management S’O’A Deemed to be University and besides Food Safety. Helps the students in developing menu for special and challenged children to overcome the Nutritional Gap
Subba Rao Devulapalli
Advisor – IT and Program Management
About 30 years of experience in different organisations and hospitals for IT enabled programs and solutions. Networking and liaising with Technology partners at global level for adopting innovations in health care.
Aanchal Marwaha
Finance and Administration Executive
A commerce graduate and Masters in Finance, she has more than 10years of experience in finance, accounting and administration. She has good knowledge in areas of Internal Audit and Taxation, and general office administration. Earlier, she has been a finance consultant for Jhpiego, Futures Group, Business Suvidha etc. and has been associated with large scale projects of Global Fund Rd 9, and other projects of USAID and Govt. of India.
Sudipta Das
Data analysis & IT Expert
IT professional with over 20 years of experience, working with different organisations and companies in India, the United Kingdom and the South East Asia region. Has extensively worked in Software product & Product management and has implemented large scale projects. In-depth knowledge of all types of Telecommunication Revenue and Telecommunication Business Process Flow across all the departments including Revenue Chain & Telecomm Financial Accounting System, Operational Chain and Customer Life Cycle Management. Developed MIS and e-learning packages for the Health care industry.
Manoj Govil
Community Health & Social Development Expert
Been working in the health care sector for past 20 years in different capacity for prevention and care across several states. Worked with well-known organisation such as PSI(India), UNICEF, USAID Supported Programmes, SIFPSA / Polio eradication program. Been Team Leader for Technical Support Unit -NACO in Uttarakhand State, with Futures Group / Palladium / FHI -360 and PHFI. Actively involved in activities for the COVID19 pandemic. Awarded by Indian Red Cross Society (IRCS) “CORONA WARRIOR”
Francis Joseph
Advisor, Harm Reduction & HIV prevention, Bangkok
An IDU/HIV Harm Reduction expert. Has extensively worked in the field of HIV and the Injecting Drug Use (IDU) community. Active member and community representative of the Asia Pacific Regional Community Networks (APRCN Partnership Forum) and the Indian Harm reduction network. Has researched and documented various aspects of substance abuse and injecting drug use and studied the vulnerabilities and risks of high risk population groups.
Prabhu Raj Poudyal
Senior Consultant, Kathmandu, Nepal
Public health consultant working in the field of HIV/AIDS, sexual and reproductive health, health costing, and health-related-research. Worked for UNAIDS, IPPF, WHO, UNICEF, Save the Children International, FHI360, IQVIA, and AHF Nepal for more than two decades. Worked on several national surveys and reviews, including IBBS in Bhutan, the Post Campaign Coverage Survey for Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine (TCV), national HIV response reviews, and reviews of sexual reproductive health initiatives.
Dr Anut Debbarma
General Physician & Advisor, Public Health management
Clinician and Public Health manager with over 12 years of experience with different organisations. involved in Lab – Ethics Committee Permission Process, Clinical trial site selection, Initiation, Monitoring, Close out & Data Analysis. Associated with the Global Fund Rd 9 malaria program (IMCP2) for Tripura. Technical Assistance (TA) of Deworm the World Initiative towards the implementation of the Anganwadi and School based deworming program
Sanjeev Jain
Capacity Building & Community Mobilization Expert
Experienced in developing HR systems, Social Behavior Change, Communication, Capacity building, Community Mobilization and Participatory Management Skills. covering WASH, Climate Change, HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, Reproductive and Maternal health (RMNCH+A)