WomenLift Health has selected the inspiring leaders below to participate in the second India Cohort of the Leadership Journey, a fully-funded leadership initiative designed to support women through the challenges and opportunities of advancing to senior leadership positions in global health.

Aarti Kumar
CEO
Community Empowerment Lab

Aditi Pusalkar-Apte
Senior Medical Scientist
KEM Hospital Research Centre

Anagha Amte
Medical officer, Trustee
Lok Biradari Prakalp

Anu Oommen
Professor, Department of Community Health
Christian Medical College, Vellore

Anupama Jha
Program Director, Leadership Development
Piramal Foundation

Apoorva Sharan
Global Safety Expert- Noval Oral Poliovirus Vaccine Type 2
World Health Organization- Global Polio Eradication Initiative

Brunda Ganneru
Team Lead, Developmental Quality Control - Biology
Bharat Biotech International Limited

Farzana Islam
Professor & Head
Hamdard Institute of Medical Sciences & Research (HIMSR), New Delhi

Hephsiba Korlapati
Joint Secretary
Government of Karnataka

Jayeeta Chowdhury
Program Director - India Health Fund & Lead - Strategic Health Initiative, Tata Trusts
Tata Trusts - India Health Fund

Jyoti Bajpai
Professor Medical Oncology
Tata Memorial Centre

Kajal Jain
Programme Coordinator, Health Programme
Mahila Sarvangeen Utkarsh Mandal (MASUM), Pune

Kusum Moray
Community Physician, Executive Director, and Public Health Researcher, StreeArogya Rural Foundation, Solapur, Maharashtra

Manisha Jain
Health Officer
UNICEF

Mansharan Seth
Deputy Director, SRHR and Maternal Health
Clinton Health access Initiative (CHAI India)

Neeta Rao
Senior Health Lead
United States Agency for International Development

Nemthianngai Guite
Associate Professor,
Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Netravathi M
Professor Of Neurology
National Institute of Mental Health & Neurosciences (NIMHANS)

Poulome Mukherjee
Surgical oncologist
Cachar cancer hospital and Research center

Prachi Deo
Executive Director
Nayi Disha Resource Centre

Pragati Hebbar
Faculty and DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance Early Career Fellow
Institute of Public Health Bengaluru

Pragyan Acharya
Additional Professor
All India Institute of Medical Sciences

Priyanka Sharma
State PMU Lead
KPMG India

Rohini Saran
Lead-Nutrition (South Asia Hub)
PATH

Roopa Hariprasad
Scientist E
ICMR-NICPR

Shalini Verma
Senior National Programme Manager - Monitoring and Evaluation
United Nations Development Programme

Shikha Malik
Senior Programme Manager
Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC)

Sonali Vaid
Co-founder and Director
Incluve Labs LLP

Tanya Seshadri
Director, Tribal Health Resource Centre
Vivekananda Girijana Kalyana Kendra

Vidhya Viswanathan
Deputy Director NCD and Research
Directorate of Public Health and Preventive Medicine