Dr Anirudh is a public health professional with over 5 years of professional experience in the field of training of health workers, curriculum designing for health workers, implementing public health projects across states, managing and operating his self-founded social enterprise. He is a trained dentist and completed his master’s degree in social entrepreneurship with a focus on disability and health systems. He is currently pursuing his PhD from the University of Maastricht and his thesis focuses on health systems and training of healthcare workers.
He was chosen as one of the 20 best social entrepreneurs in India by PwC and was chosen to the School of Social Entrepreneurs (2017-18). His enterprise was chosen as one of the 50 best social entrepreneurs in Asia by the Development Bank of Singapore in 2018 and was awarded the first prize at the Sandbox Samvidha event by Deshpande Foundation in 2017.
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Dr Anirudh has worked in intervention research projects until now and is now pursuing his PhD in health systems, NCD’s and the interface between the two. He has also been awarded a DST grant for studying the intersection of health systems, Type 2 diabetes management, m-health and community health. His research interests are ana amalgamation of all of them along with a keen interest in understading of monitoring & evaluation and impact evaluation of each research.
- Non-Communicable Diseases(NCDs) and Injuries
- Eye Health
- EHealth/mHealth
- Community Health
- Implementation Research
- Monitoring + Evaluation
- Impact Evaluation
- Health Impact Assessment
- Health System
- Research/Grants Administration
- General Management
- Project/Programme Management/Implementation
- Operation Management