Senior Advisor

• Apr 2021 - Present

India Country Director

• Aug 2019 - Mar 2021

Country Representative

• Nov 2015 - Aug 2019

• Leads country strategy development and execution, represents Abt and the company brand to external clients and partners at relevant policy and technical discussions, establishes new relationships and evolves existing relationships with donors and other clients, partners and government counterparts on behalf of Abt, identifies and leads specific capture and proposal development efforts in India. Supports collaboration with the International Economic Growth Division and other Abt divisions and/or subsidiaries• Co-ordinates the Abt Associates India portfolio in the areas of RMNCH+A, Health Systems Strengthening, Non communicable diseases and Family planning.

Director

• Mar 2008 - Oct 2015

• Founder Director of the Indian affiliate office of FHI360• Developed the concept of FHIndia’s work with the Corporate sector to strengthen CSR and successfully demonstrated the approach with BILT and later with the Avantha Foundation and other Avantha group companies• Leads its work in Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Orissa.

Project Director, Bridge project (Africa India Asia HIV learning Exchange)

• Nov 2011 - Apr 2015

• Leads the transfer of HIV prevention learning from India to National Government programs of Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Mozambique, Zambia, Ghana and Nigeria in Africa and Thailand, Bangladesh, Srilanka and Nepal in Asia; manages teams in India and these countries• lead consultant for development of National SOPs for MARPs and PLHIVs in Ghana, Ethiopia and Mozambique.• a reviewer of the National Strategy framework for HIV/AIDS in Zambia• Provides technical assistance for strengthening the MARPs program in South Africa.• Manages funding to the University of Manitoba

Director, Aastha Project

• Jun 2004 - Sep 2014

• Technical and Managerial head of the Aastha project funded by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation an internationally acclaimed HIV prevention project with MARPs in the greater Mumbai region• Developed several innovations that have been included as best practices in the National guidelines for targeted interventions and are now being replicated in several countries• Led the JEET initiative for providing technical support to Uttar Pradesh State AIDS Control Society.• member of the Core technical working group constituted by the National AIDS Control Organization (NACO) for the development of National AIDS Control Program (NACP) IV• Managed and monitored funding to 17 NGOs and 14 CBOs.• Declared as a model project by Gates foundation and FHI360 globally.• Project has 25 oral presentations, 50 poster presentations at International conferences, 7 peer reviewed articles and 15 international publications such as manuals, monographs and tools.

Director, Reaching Across Borders Project

• Sep 2006 - May 2009

Director

• Jun 2003 - May 2004

• Headed a program for providing management support to two Hospitals, five NGOs and health organizations.Initiated a magazine on Hospital Management for Private hospitals

Senior Program Officer, Deputy Team Leader

• Sep 1997 - May 2003

• Technical leadership for German government assistance to Health Department of the Government of Maharashtra for improving Maternal and Child Health, Family Planning and Health care system.• Led the German technical assistance as Acting Team Leader for one year • Managed and monitored funding to 21 NGOs• Several innovations with Village committees, women’s self-help groups and Primary Health Centers on Health care financing, public private partnership, safe motherhood and newborn care.

Director, Integrated Community Health and Family Welfare Unit

• Dec 1988 - Jun 1997

• Headed a community health programme covering a population of 36,000 spread across 60 villages in the Krishna river valley in western Maharashtra that provided direct health services in RMNCH+A, through its own subcentres and ANMs and had a network of Balwadi teachers and RMPs as voluntary community health workers. Program focused on Safe drinking water, training of community health workers, orientation of opinion leaders, MCH, Familly Planning, Prevention and control of STDs, AIDS awareness, Women’s empowerment and income generation programs

Medical Superintendent, Willlis F Pierce Memorial Hospital

• Jun 1992 - Sep 1995

• Headed a 150 bedded general hospital having the basic specialities with an opthalmology department and an ICU as also a general nursing and midwifery school recognized by the Indian NursingCouncil.• Planning, budgeting, supervising staff, M&E,HRM, public relations, liaison with Government Officials, liaison with donors and international support agencies, fund raising, physician, trainer and Secretary of the Management board. Practical experience of accounting, creating profit centers such as pharmacy, legal and taxation matters, negotiation with labor unions, importing donated medical equipment etc

Assistant Lecturer in Preventive and Social Medicine

• Mar 1990 - Jun 1992

• Taught community health, bio statistics, family planning, communicable diseases including HIV-AIDS and environmental sanitation to undergraduate medical students.