Professional Experience:
I am a public health physician (MBBS; MD, Community Medicine) with over 10 years of progressive experience across health research, large-scale public health programs, and multi-country global health initiatives. My career has moved deliberately from frontline clinical practice to national and international program leadership, anchored throughout by evidence-based decision-making and a focus on quality of care.
I currently serve as National Program Officer at Jhpiego, New Delhi. In this role I lead the planning, implementation, and monitoring of Manyata, a flagship maternal Quality-of-Care improvement initiative led by FOGSI and funded by MSD for Mothers across India's private maternity sector. I manage the NABH certification partnership, guide state implementation teams, and coordinate delivery partners including Accenture, PharmAccess, and Weber Shandwick. I concurrently coordinate the multi-country Uniting for Quality initiative under AOFOG stewardship across the Philippines, Bangladesh, and Indonesia — leading strategy, designing country-specific quality-of-care roadmaps through multi-stakeholder workshops, and supporting the pilot-to-scale-up of maternal health interventions.
Earlier at Jhpiego, as Senior Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Officer, I designed and operationalized MERL frameworks and KPIs across major portfolios. I led monitoring and evaluation for the USAID-funded Global Health Security program, supporting antimicrobial resistance and zoonotic-disease workstreams, One Health Action Plan development, and the operationalization of integrated public health laboratories and surveillance units in Rajasthan. I also delivered evidence-generation and learning support for a Gates Foundation–funded newborn health initiative, and conducted global landscaping and qualitative research to inform FOGSI's digital health strategy. As Senior Technical Officer, I provided technical support across disease surveillance, outbreak preparedness, and clinical protocol development for high-altitude emergencies.
My foundational experience combines academic, research, and clinical service. I have served as Assistant Professor and Senior Resident in Community Medicine, mentoring postgraduate and undergraduate research and leading epidemiological studies including serosurveys, vaccine evaluations, and facility assessments. As a Medical Officer with the Government of Odisha, I delivered primary care, implemented state health programs, and monitored new-vaccine introduction across aspirational districts. I have also served as an external monitor for WHO during national immunization campaigns.
My core strengths are program management, monitoring, evaluation and learning, multi-stakeholder partnership coordination, surveillance and epidemiology, and research-to-policy translation. I have worked across maternal and child health, infectious diseases, antimicrobial resistance, nutrition, and health systems strengthening, and have collaborated directly with ICMR, WHO, UNICEF, PHFI, the Gates Foundation, and MSD for Mothers. I bring hands-on experience with donor-funded projects, research governance, ethics, and monitoring and reporting systems, alongside coordination with national and international partners.
My applied work is complemented by a strong research record of 19 peer-reviewed publications in national and international journals, and by structured training including Good Clinical Practice (ICH-GCP, Johns Hopkins), research methodology, qualitative research, operations research (WHO), and research ethics.
I am seeking senior program management, technical advisory, or consulting roles where I can operate across the full evidence-to-impact pathway — generating high-quality evidence and translating it into programs and policy that improve health outcomes at scale, particularly for women and children in resource-constrained settings.