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is a graduate in Psychology from University of Delhi and has a Master of Arts degree in Social Work, with specialisation in Social Welfare Administration from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences. She is a founding member of the Social Initiatives Group at ICICI Bank and set up its Early Child Health Practice in 2000. Shilpa has been the SIG’s Coordinator and is now the President of ICCHN.
E-mail: shilpa.deshpande@icchn.org.in
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is a graduate in
Philosophy from University of Delhi and has a postgraduate degree in
Social Anthropology from the Delhi School of Economics. She has worked
extensively on community health worker strategies, nutrition, and
strengthening public health systems, including through engagement in
policy advocacy and state-based resource initiatives, and on the Public
Health Resource Network. Her interests include community health, state
and political systems, education and the arts.
E-mail: sarover.zaidi@icchn.org.in
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is a graduate in Psychology from University of Delhi and has a Master of Arts degree in Social Work, with specialisation in Medical and Psychiatric Social Work from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences. She has worked on community health worker strategies and training, nutrition, on the Public Health Resource Network, and on strengthening public health systems and the ICDS. Her interests include community based strategies and health systems, gender issues in health, and mental health.
E-mail: anuska.kalita@icchn.org.in
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studied Economics, Psychology and Sociology at the undergraduate level at the University of Bangalore and has a Master of Arts degree in Social Work, with specialisation in Urban and Rural Community Development from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences. Her work has included contributing to projects on health and nutrition in urban contexts, integrating health with community based structures, and strengthening the ICDS.
E-mail: devanshi.chanchani@icchn.org.in |
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studied Economics
at the Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune and completed
her post graduation in Development Studies from the University of
Glasgow. Satlaj has worked on issues of gender budgeting,
gender-sensitive development planning and people-centred advocacy. She
has worked with people's groups, communities and NGOs in Bihar,
Jharkhand and Maharashtra. Her interests include Panchayati Raj
Institutions, gender and community empowerment.
E-mail: satlaj.dighe@icchn.org.in |
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is
a graduate in Economics from University of Delhi and has a Masters
degree from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. He
has worked on the Public Health Resource Network, on strengthening public health systems, integrating health with community based structures, and urban
health. Before joining Health, he worked for a year with the Elementary
Education team of the Social Initiatives Group (now www.icee.org.in). He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. at the School
of Social Policy, University of Pennsylvania. His interests
include health systems research, health financing, and evaluation research. E-mail: abhijit.visaria@icchn.org.in
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is a
graduate in Computer Applications and a postgraduate in Rural
Management from the Institute of Rural Management, Anand. He has worked
on integrating health with community based structures and in
strengthening the ICDS. His interests include health economics,
livelihoods, and information systems.
E-mail: suyash.rai@icchn.org.in
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is a graduate in Social Studies from Harvard University and has an MPhil in Social Anthropology from Cambridge University. Over the last three years, Mekhala has coordinated the SIG’s Early Child Health Practice and has been closely involved in setting up ICCHN. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Anthropology at University College London and her interests include community organisation and collective action, gender, political change and social justice, and ethnographies of corporate interventions, public systems and reform processes.
Email: mekhala.krishnamurthy@icchn.org.in
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Devanshi Chanchani
