I am a medical doctor (MBBS from Calcutta University) with MS and PhD in Epidemiology from the School of Public Health, University of California – Los Angeles (UCLA), with more than 17 years of professional experience in various public health domains in India. I was awarded the NIH/Fogarty AIDS International Training and Research Program scholarship for pursuing graduate and doctoral studies in HIV epidemiology. My research interests lie in Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health, Infectious diseases (HIV and Visceral Leishmaniasis) and Public Health Implementation Research. I have authored 48 articles (14 as the first author) in peer-reviewed international journals. Having worked in a challenging environment in one of the poorest resource settings in India and led the analytics component M&E units with multiple organisations, I am confident in undertaking epidemiological research and evaluation activities of any scale. I am currently looking for a role that complements my skillset and experience.
As the Core Team Member of the Research Monitoring Learning and Evaluation (RMLE) unit of the Bihar Health System Strengthening Project under Piramal Foundation, my current key responsibilities involve conceptualising program evaluation designs and relevant scientifically valid studies, leading the overall analysis of data collected in various studies, and identifying pertinent findings. Besides, I am responsible for managing the team of State and Regional M&E specialists and leading the technical and analytical capacity-building activities of the group of Regional and District-level M&E team members. Another essential duty is to lead the data-related interactions with the donors (Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation) and disseminate the results and their programmatic implications with various stakeholders.
Kolkata, India
Core Team Member
Non-profit
Piramal Swasthya Management and Research Institute