I work as a Project Advisor with The International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases (The Union) under the I Defeat TB Project. The project supports for institutional strengthening to accelerate actions for Tuberculosis (TB) and Drug Resistant TB (DR-TB) in India. My primary responsibilities in my current role involves being the focal point and technically supporting multiple states in strengthening state and district institutions for TB such as the (State Training and Demonstration Centres) for training and capacity building of program staff, monitoring and feedback by the states to their districts on enhancing the program quality, catalysing institutional strengthening of select institutions as Centres of Excellence (CoE) for DR TB care in India, technical support for roll out of a Program Managers Course for district TB officers across the country, provide technical support to organize workshops and stakeholder consultations with government stakeholders, lead multiple project evaluations and documentation of key learnings and good practices through the project period, write manuscripts and technical papers, develop new project ideas and proposals etc. My past experience has been in evidence based large scale programme management and providing technical support in sexual reproductive health and hygiene, maternal, child and adolescent health, nutrition, gender-based violence, social determinants of health, non communicable disease programs and working with marginalised communities in rural and urban context. I have obtained a PhD and an M Phil in Public Health and a Masters degree in social work with a specialisation in health care. Outside of work, I like to travel, meet new people to learn about cultures and practices, watch theatre and musical shows, take a keen interest in politics, garden, DIY projects, cook at times and entertain friends.
