Professional Experience:
I have been in different leadership positions, planning and project managements, monitoring and evaluation of population and health programs along with providing leadership, strategic planning and technical support to governments/NGOs/UNs/Institutions on various capacities for more than a decade. I am also instrumental in team management, applying mixed method approach in monitoring and evaluation for different research designs, grants management and organizing training programs/workshops on program evaluations, scientific writing, MIS and impact evaluation activities over the years. I have a long well demonstrated track record of mobilizing, conducting and managing projects for development, policy and program. Earlier, I have also successfully completed the role of convener of Monitoring and Evaluation and Project Management division, IIHMR, New Delhi. So far I have successfully managed and completed more than 10 public health projects, program implementation and evaluation in the different cross-cutting issues which were part of different strategic and policy decisions of the south Asian region.
Under my current role, I am providing leadership, technical and managerial support to different surveys and community mobilization evaluation projects in Population Council. I have also provided technical support to the Ethiopia country office on Mental health and HIV among adolescents an intervention project in Ethiopia. I was also an adviser member of assessment of national health policy draft, facilitated by Brookings India. I am also providing technical support, strategic planning and capacity development to government (NACO, MoHFW, GOI) as National Working Group Member in National Integrated Biological & Behavioral Surveillance (IBBS). Before joining Population Council, I was working as Assistant Professor (Public Health Management) and Convener (M&E and Project Management Division), IIHMR, New Delhi, responsible mainly for project management and M&E, capacity development, teaching and trainings. Previously, I have worked and managed major health and population based large scale surveys (covered all the states/UTs in India) and evaluation based studies in India and also supported organizations in USA, Bangladesh, Nepal, Afghanistan and Ethiopia in various capacities (e.g. National Family Health Survey- 3, NFHS-2 Follow up Survey, National Nutrition Survey, Integrated Behavioral and Biological Surveillance, Behavioral Tracking Surveys, Global Adult Tobacco Survey, Mental health Project etc) as well as dealt with strategic planning, preparation of guidelines and protocols. I have been involved and coordinated with many international and national donors and partners (such as MoHFW, UNICEF, WHO, NIH, CDC, BMGF, DFID, NACO, NHSRC, NIMS, DMAI, IIPS, TISS, PHFI, FHI360, Plan International, HIV/AIDS Alliance, Path, Care, Make Me Healthy and Truworth Group etc.). I have developed (with the team) the capacity and trained more than 500 international/natio