2024 India Leadership Journey

LIFT-OFF EVENT

March 20 & 21 2025

Thank you for being a part of Lift-Off and celebrating the women leaders in the 2024 cohort of India Leadership Journey with us.

You can watch the recordings of the cohort members’ presentations below.

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Leadership Project Presentations

Building Integrated & Resilient Health Systems

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Cohort A

Watch: Bhavana Issar’s “Reimagining Care, Caregiving and Caregiver Support in Times of Tech-led Entrepreneurial Economies: A Systems Thinking Approach Through a Feminist Lens”

Learn more about Bhavana.

Watch: Kranti Suresh Vora’s “Surgical Unmet Needs in Urban Slums: A gendered approach”

Learn more about Kranti.

Watch: Priya Das “Establishing a Community of Practice for Gender Champions in the Health System in India”

Learn more about Priya.

Watch: Smriti Vasisht’s “Addressing Vaccine Preventable Diseases among Elderly Women in India: A Qualitative Study on Healthcare Perspectives and Policy Recommendations”

Learn more about Smriti.

Watch: Swati Deshpande’s “ViBHA-A Community-Based Approach to Raising Breast Cancer Awareness through a Hospital-Based Intervention”

Learn more about Swati.

Cohort B

Watch: Abha Mehndiratta’s “Redeeming the Spirit of Medicine”

Learn more about Abha.

Watch: Aiswarya Lakshmi A S’s “An Exercise in Improving NCD Screening through Capacity Building, Community Mobilization, and Coordination”

Learn more about Aiswarya.

Watch: Anupam Khungar Pathni’s “Strengthening Management and Follow-up of Women with Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy at the Primary Healthcare Level”

Learn more about Anupam.

Watch: Aruna Bhattacharya’s “Community-based NCD Surveillance Programme in Sanitation Workers' Settlement in Bangalore”

Learn more about Aruna.

Watch: Manisha Mandal’s “Advancing Gender Mainstreaming and Gender-responsive Budgeting in Health Policy, Programmes, and Healthcare Delivery in the State of Punjab”

Learn more about Manisha.

Watch: Vandana Bhatia’s “Strategic Planning for Strengthening Primary Health Systems to Reduce Maternal Mortality and Teenage Pregnancies in West Bengal”

Learn more about Vandana.

Catalyzing Institutional Change

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Cohort A

Watch: Aparna Chakravarty’s “Empowering Nurses as Antimicrobial Stewards”

Learn more about Aparna.

Watch: Arundati Muralidharan’s “Decoding Menstrual Health for Women at Work”

Learn more about Arundati.

Watch: Bhakti Sarang’s “SurgiSafe: A Quality Improvement Programme Enhancing Perioperative Safety through Standardised Surgical Site Infection Prevention Practices in a Tertiary Care Hospital”

Learn more about Bhakti.

Watch: Kusum Sahijpal’s “Project Wisdom”

Learn more about Kusum.

Watch: Siuli Mitra’s “Her Health, Her Voice

Learn more about Siuli.

Cohort B

Watch: Amrit Virk’s “Empowering Women through Promoting Respectful Maternity Care with Dignity and Inclusivity in Public Health Facilities in SAS Nagar District, Punjab”

Learn more about Amrit.

Watch: Bhuvaneswari Sunil’s “A Training Module for ASHAs on 'Mobile-Digital Information Literacy'”

Learn more about Bhuvaneswari.

Watch: Karishma S Kaushik’s “IndiaBiospaces: A digital networking and mentorship platform for life science professionals in India”

Learn more about Karishma.

Watch: Rijuta Sawant’s “Women for Women: Understanding and Strengthening Gender Perspectives of Community Outreach Workers in Urban Underprivileged Settings”

Learn more about Rijuta.

Watch: Vidhya Venugopal’s “SHE (Safety, Health, and Environment) Inclusive Workplaces: The Way Forward for Migrant Women Workers”

Learn more about Vidhya.

Optimizing Pathways to Leadership

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Cohort A

Watch: Aditi Vyas’s “Barriers and Enablers in Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR) Advocacy for Women Youth Leaders”

Learn more about Aditi.

Watch: Divya Santhanam’s “From Policy to Practice: Is Distribution of Sanitary Pads a Solution to Menstrual Health Management of Adolescent Girls?”

Learn more about Divya.

Watch: Nidhi Dubey’s “Decision-Making Among Elected Women Representatives”

Learn more about Nidhi.

Watch: Priya Ranganathan’s “Gender Representation in Leadership Roles in Oncology in India”

Learn more about Priya.

Watch: Rutuja Patil’s “Collaboration for Global Health: Navigating formation and functioning of the Health and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS) Network in India”

Learn more about Rutuja.

Watch: Shilpa Khanna’s “Empowering Nurses: Optimising Pathways to Leadership”

Learn more about Shilpa.

Cohort B

Watch: Kanupriya Singhal’s “Enhancing the Engagement of Husbands and Other Family Members for Improving Coverage and Quality of Antenatal Care in Uttar Pradesh”

Learn more about Kanupriya.

Watch: Kavita Chauhan’s “Women Leaders in Behavioural Sciences”

Learn more about Kavita.

Watch: Leyanna Susan George’s “Facilitators and Barriers Faced by Women Practising Public Health in India”

Learn more about Leyanna.

Watch: Madhur Gupta’s “Promote Women’s Leadership for Public Health in Local Production of Quality and Safe Medicines Using the Gender Lens”

Learn more about Madhur.

Watch: Nidhi Thakur’s “Women’s Leadership during Public Health Emergencies: A study of leadership characteristics, responsibilities, motivations and barriers”

Learn more about Nidhi.

Watch: Sapna Surendran’s “Analysing Gender Equity in India's Public Health Leadership”

Learn more about Sapna.

Centering Women & Girls in Health

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Cohort A

Watch: Arshi Mehboob “Leveraging Knowledge for Catalysing the Theory of Change”

Learn more about Arshi.

Watch: Kanica Kaushal’s “Campaign WOMB - Winning Over Mothers with Hepatitis B”

Learn more about Kanica.

Watch: Monalisha Sahu’s “WINGS: Women's Integration and Growth in Safe Healthcare Settings”

Learn more about Monalisha.

Watch: Pallavi Kshetrapal’s “Improving Women and Child Health Via Use of Well Phenotyped Biobanks”

Learn more about Pallavi.

Watch: Priyamboda Mohanty’s “Towards Inclusivity: Bridging Gaps in Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights for HIV-Positive Pregnant Women”

Learn more about Priyamboda.

Watch: Priyanka Salil Kochar’s “Reaching the Unreached: A Mentorship Model for Marginalised Girls in Health Advocacy”

Learn more about Priyanka.

Watch: Shrinkhla Sahai’s “SPARK (Suicide Prevention Awareness & Resilience Kit): Addressing Suicide as a Public Health Crisis in India”

Learn more about Shrinkhla.

Watch: Shwetanjali Kumari’s “Cross-Sector Value Partnership for Preventing Women’s Cancer (Breast and Cervical) in Kohima District of Nagaland, India”

Learn more about Shwetanjali.

Watch: Sunita Rao’s “Breaking Barriers to Cancer Awareness: Increasing Screening Uptake in Women and Advancing Gender Equity in Health through Philanthropy”

Learn more about Sunita.

Watch: Sushmita Malaviya’s “Building Agents of Climate Resilience”

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Watch: Vidhu Bhatnagar’s “Fill your Cup”

Learn more about Vidhu.

Cohort B

Watch: Farah Naaz Fathima’s "Flowing Freedom: Empowering Rural Women through Menstrual Cup Awareness”

Learn more about Farah.

Watch: Gauri Singh’s “Centering Women in Safer Surgery”

Learn more about Gauri.

Watch: Keerty Nakray’s “Adverse Childhood Experiences amongst Adolescents (A-ACES), and Resilience during Public Health Emergencies: The Role of Schools in Mitigation in Karnataka”

Learn more about Keerty.

Watch: Mangayarkarasi V’s “Empowering Tribal Women Take over Their Own Holistic Health through Anaemia Prevention, Hygienic practices, and Self- referral: A pilot study of pre- and post- competency-based education intervention”

Learn more about Mangayarkarasi.

Watch: Nandini Kumar Shailabh’s “Delivering Agency over Their Health to Pregnant Women through ‘Maternity Wallets’”

Learn more about Nandini.

Watch: Nisha Hariharan’s “From Exclusion to Inclusion: Analysing follow-up discontinuity in breast cancer treatment”

Learn more about Nisha.

Watch: Nivedita Telang’s “Improving Maternal and Child Health in Indian Tribal Women”

Learn more about Nivedita.

Watch: Paramjeet Kaur’s “Health Leadership: A healthy initiative”

Learn more about Paramjeet.

Watch: Priyanka Roy’s “Knowledge, Attitude, and Practices (KAP) towards Occupational Diseases among Women Workers in Tea Plantations, Darjeeling”

Learn more about Priyanka.

Watch: Rashmi Ardey’s “Study to Assess Perceptions and Biases among Health Care Providers and End-users for SRH/FP services and Cervical Cancer Screening”

Learn more about Rashmi.

Watch: Ritumoni Das’s “Enhancing Women's Agency at Grassroots for improved Maternal Health Care”

Learn more about Ritumoni.

Thank you for joining our Lift-Off Event!

You can read more about the 2024 India Cohort Members here.