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Chitoor Gopinath
Consultant , International NGOs, UN agencies
Bangkok, Thailand
Strategic Behavioral Communication SBC professional with 30 years wide experience in behavior change communication in Africa, South Asia and SE Asia. Competencies: Strategy and programme design, capacity development, film-making, graphic design, community theatre, curriculum design, and journalism and advertising. Worked in HIV, malaria, TB, safe abortion and emerging pandemic threats.
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Area of Expertise:
  • Capacity Building, Training, Advocacy
  • Communications, Media, Knowledge Management, Editor
  • Social, Education, Gender, Youth, Child
Professional Experience:
The main body of my work has been in SBCC (Social and Behavioural Change Communication), providing hands-on strategic thinking, technical leadership and direction in areas as diverse as HIV/AIDS, malaria prevention, TB, domestic violence, disability, civic registration, emerging infectious diseases and safe abortion. Goals have included individual behavior change, social normative change, strengthening external relations, and maximizing policy impact.

I have worked with institutional teams and partners to build SBCC capacity, developed original approaches in SBCC for social transformation, and created new tools and processes for fostering dialogue and community engagement.

I have been engaged since 1986 in communication around issues of women, children and youth, with focus on reproductive health including HIV and AIDS, mother-and-child health, domestic violence, safe abortion. TB, malaria. In the last five years, my portfolio has included both communication and advocacy around high-impact emerging pandemic threats that affect, health, livelihoods and food security.

I have worked in diverse, high-stress projects in multi-donor multi-institution environments requiring cooperation and collaboration, in Africa (Botswana, Kenya, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Uganda, Malawai, Zambia, South Africa), South Asia (India, Bangladesh and Nepal) and Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Thailand, Viet Nam, China, Indonesia).

My other skills include video film direction and editing; graphic design and documentation; project management; web presence and social media; technical and financial management; and mentoring.

I have led medium-sized (up to 20) multi-national, multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary teams in project work. I have deep experience working with donors in projects funded by USAID, CDC, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, among others, and have worked with UNAIDS, UNICEF and UNFPA.

I am currently based in Bangkok with his family, and work as an independent communication and advocacy consultant for hire, in all the areas mentioned above.
Education:
Bachelors degree with Economics major from Delhi University.
Affiliations and Achievements:
Young Journalist of the Year Under 30 Award 1973

PATH Vision Award for Innovation 2007

Shortlisted for the 2012 Commonwealth Book Prize for my first fiction novel, The Book of Answers, published by HarperCollins 2011

PUBLICATIONS

The Role of Interpersonal Communication in Preventing Unsafe Abortion in Communities: The Dialogues for Life  Project in Nepal. Bingham A, Drake JK, Gopinath CY, Goodyear L, Kaufman A, Bhattarai S. (in press) Journal of Health Communication.

Finding Connectors. A spreadsheet based algorithm for identifying community connectors. CY Gopinath 2003.

Of camels, cows, sheep — and information. How Afar pastoralists communicate life-saving information about AIDS and family planning through their traditional communication tool of dagu. CY Gopinath 2004.

The Continuum of Enquiry. How people's questions change as their HIV risk perception changes.

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    Years of Experience:
    More than 20 years
    Highest Qualification:
    Bachelors
    Languages:
    English, French, Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Kiswahili, Thai
    Nationality:
    India
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