Public Health Foundation of India

I am a son of primary teacher and farmer who took primary education in Marathi laungauge from Zilla Parishad Primary School, Lakhangaon, Post – Uti, Ta – Ausa, District – Latur, Maharashtra, India. I received M.B.B.S. and M.D. in Preventive and Social Medicine from Government Medical College, Nagpur in 1998. I obtained a Masters in Public Health from the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp in 2008. I am awarded PhD (Global Health) from Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK in 2020 with research done on Human Resource Management.

I have 22 years of experience in public health. I have worked with the World Health Organization for six years in the states of Orissa and Bihar and with the government of Maharashtra for two years. At present, I am working with PHFI as a faculty since 2008, initially at the Indian Institute of Public Health, Hyderabad and presently at the Indian Institute of Public Health, Bhubaneswar.

I am involved in teaching, research and advocacy specifically in the areas of health systems, human resource management and health policy. I have also contributed to developing and delivering various short term and long term capacity building programmes especially for the public health workforce working in the government system.

I believe in connecting research and training with public health practice and democratizing public health systems so as to provide public health services to the people who are in utmost need.