IPH team

Educational Qualification:

• Master in Public Health from KLE University Belgaum, Karnataka
• BAMS from Ayurveda Mahavidyalaya Hubli

Currently working on:

• HESVIC - Health Systems Stewardship and Regulation in Vietnam, India and China

Contact details: anil AT iphindia.org

Areas of specialization:

• Gender issues (gender analysis and  audit) and community empowerment
• Module development and capacity building
• Training/ facilitation and advocacy

Currently working on :

• Urban Health Project is  an action research project which aims at improving access to quality health care services in K.G.Halli. K.G.Halii  is in ward number 30 in Benagaluru

Previous work experience:

• 20 years of experience with marginalized group of women, children and women in sex work- as a Gender and community empowerment specialist.Worked on different areas like project implementation and  management, capacity building, development of  module on  health, legal issues, economic empowerment and governance,advocacy with government/NGO and different stake holders.Also has  experience in qualitative research procured through conducting small studies

Educational qualification:

• B.Sc. (Nutrition & Diet) graduate passed out in the year 1986 from VHD  home science college bangalore affiliated to Bangalore University, Bengaluru
• As a consultant for different organisation studies  masters in sociology and passed out  in the year 2001 from Mysore University, Mysore

Contact details : amrutha AT iphindia.org

Designation: Faculty

Areas of specialization

Health Economics & Financing, Health Insurance, Public-Private Partnerships and Knowledge Management

Currently working on

Socially Inclusive Health Care Financing in West Africa and India -Health Inc

Work experience

Consultant – Health Economics & Financing, National Health Systems Resource Centre, National Rural Health Mission, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, New Delhi

Research Fellow – Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies, Trivandrum 

Educational Qualification - Masters in Economics from Kerala University

Contact details: arun AT iphindia.org

Designation:  Associate Researcher

Education qualification:

• BA from Gulbarga University
• MSW from Bharati Vidyapeeth University, Pune
• PGDHRM (in process)

 Area of specialization:

• Health care counseling
• Tobacco control
• Health system strengthening

Work experience

• Worked as a project Coordinator  in KSAPS (abhivrudi) for Seven Months,
• Project Manager at  district hospital Bagalkot on Citizen help desk (IPH) for One year
• Project officer on anti tobacco project at IPH, Bangalore for one year
• Present working on Swasthya Karnatakaa at IPH, Tumkur: Strengthening district Health management

Contact details : bheemaray AT iphindia.org

Areas of specialisation

• Online learning
• Website designing
• WordPress

Currently working on :

• e-learning
• Website Management
• ITC (Information technology and communication)

Educational Qualification : B.E in Information Technology affiliated to Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU)

Contact details :diljith AT iphindia.org

Designation – Project manager

Currently working on :

• Finance management of different projects
• Library management

Work experience

• worked at India Bulls Security Ltd as Associate Relationship Manager for a brief period.

Educational Qualification : MBA from Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidya Nagar in 2006

Contact details :dipalee AT iphindia.org

• Finance management & accountant

Educational Qualification :

• D.E & C  Engg. from CSI Goodwill Polytechnic, Bangalore

Designation - Research Associate

Areas of specialisation

• Social work with families with specialisation in Psychiatric Social work

Contact Details:kuruvila AT iphindia.org

Currently working on :

• Swasthya Karnataka project as Research Associate, stationed in Tumkur,
• Facilitate and coordinate between IPH office in Bangalore and district health officials in Tumkur district for implementing various health-oriented interventions in the district
• Involved in studies conducted in Tumkur health system

Work experience

• Experience in working with Events Promotion industry, hospital and developmental sector namely Psychiatric Social work and volunteer management.

Educational Qualification :

• Bsc. from Kerala University
• MSW from Bangalore University

Designation: District Coordinator

Educational Qualification:

Master in Public Health from KLE University Belgaum, Karnataka.BDS from KLE Institute of Dental Sciences, Belgaum

Currently working on:

Health Inc project: Socially inclusive health care financing in West Africa and India

Previous work experience:

Worked as Dentist for 4 years

Worked as Consultant Dentist to Shaikh Homeopathic Hospital and college, Belgaum

Contact details: Mahesh AT iphindia.org

• Master in Public Health (MPH) from KLE University Belgaum, Karnataka
• MBBS from Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College Belgaum, Karnataka.

• HESVIC Project at IPH

• Medical Officer PHC, Belgaum district, Public Private Partenership
• Medical Officer, Health & Family Welfare, Karnataka
• Tutor, Dept of Physiology, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College Belgaum, Karnataka.

• Primary Health Care
• Maternal & Child health
• Tuberculosis control
• Epidemiology
• Health system strenthening

Currently working on :HESVIC project at IPH.

Work experience

• Worked as a Lecturer at the Richmond Fellowship PG college, Bangalore from 2002-2006.Was involved in different training programmes conducted by the organization including the continuing rehabilitation education programs by the Rehabilitation Council of India and school mental health programs organized by Action Aid, India
• Part of different research projects in health management and tobacco control from 2007 to 2009 at IPH
• Worked in two different projects at NIMHANS on alcohol harm reduction and tobacco control, funded by WHO.

Educational Qualification :

• M. Phil in Psychiatric Social Work from NIMHANS, Bangalore.

Contact details :maya AT iphindia.org

Areas of specialisation

• Community development
• Organizing health camps for community

Currently working on

• Urban health project

Work experience

• Worked in NGO called Deenadayal janaseva samithi, which is located in Chickballapur as a Project coordinator From 2008 January

Educational Qualification :MSW from Kristu Jayanthi College Of Science and Management

Contact details :gowda AT iphindia.org

Designation : Director

Areas of specialisation

• Health financing
• Maternal health
• Disease surveillance
• District health management
• Health system strengthening

Currently working on :

• Research on governance in health services, health financing, health management, social exclusion
• Training government officials on DHM
• Member of state health system, research center, vajpayee arogya suraksha trust, Karnataka knowledge commission (health)

Work experience

• World health organisation (WHO)
• Head of communicable diseases
• Tutor for MPH course in Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp,
• Developed health system for tribal population in ACCORD, Gudalur

Educational Qualification :

• ph.D from Ghent University (ITM)
• MPH from Institute of Tropical Medicine, Belgium
• MBBS fromChristian Medical College, Vellore.

Contact details :deva AT iphindia.org

Designation : Training co-ordinator

Areas of specialization

• Designing training modules
• Soft skills training
• Psychological counseling

Currently working on

• Designing and Co-ordinating BPM/DPM training
• Involved in internal capacity building of the institute
• Facilitating internship programs

Work experience

• Worked with an MNC as psychological counselor, wrote articles on mental health issues for the internal use of HR, was involved in building a network of counselors across India for a robust referral system, developed and delivered various soft skills training modules. Developed and delivered training module on handling critical employee incidents for HR.
• Worked with a software company as trainer, designed and delivered various soft skills training programs for their employees on interpersonal communication, email etiquette and call handling skills. Trained fresh graduates on corporate etiquette, cross culture training for employees going onsite, did one on one coaching and counseling for refereed employees

Educational Qualification :

• MSc – Psycho-Social Rehabilitation

Contact details : Pavithra AT iphindia.org

Designation: Advocacy officer

Currently working on

• Tobacco control project at IPH

Work experience

• Practised dentistry at a charitable Hospital in Bangalore for about a year

Educational Qualification:

• MDS Oral Medicine and Radiology from The Oxford Dental College, Bangalore
• BDS from Bangalore Institute of Dental Sciences

Contact details: pragati AT iphindia.org

Prashanth

Designation – Faculty

Brief bio: I am a medical doctor trained in public health. For my PhD at Institute of Tropical Medicine  Antwerp(ITM),a partner institution of IPH, I am studying the mechanisms through which management capacities at district level improve in response to training inputs using realist evaluation. My Masters in public health was on health systems management and policy at ITM. I have been with IPH since 2008.

Work at IPH: At IPH, I am a faculty and a PhD scholar. I am involved with the Swasthya Karnataka project of IPH. I am also a member of the web team.hi

Areas of interest

• Programme evaluation using Realist methods
• PPP in primary health care
• Mainstreaming mental health services in primary health care
• eHealth especially FOSS for health

Experience: I have earlier worked at VGKK in BR Hills as a doctor managing a 20-bedded tribal hospital and a community health programme. Later with Karuna Trust, I helped with training, supervision and monitoring of primary health centres in Karnataka and Arunachal Pradesh. In Karnataka, I helped set up innovative projects in primary health care such as telemedicine, community health insurance, mainstreaming HIV/AIDS and traditional medicine in primary health cares and targeted interventions for improving RCH services in PHCs.

Contact details: prashanthns AT iphindia.org

See my publications here.

Designation: Research Assistant

Educational Qualification :

•  Master in Public health from KLE University Belgaum Karnataka
• BAMS from Ayurved Mahavidyalaya Bijapur

Currently working on

• Tumkur project – Action and operational research in Tumkur.

Previous work experience:

• Medical Officer PHC, Tumkur district,

Contact details: rajashree AT iphindia.org

Designation – Faculty

Areas of specialisation

• Healing
• Philosophy
• Human behavior
• Community participation

Currently working on

• Urban Health Project: an action research on urban health issues in Bengaluru.

Work experience

• Worked as a  non-health professionals in the NGO- ACCORD for ten years.
• Three years were spent working with other systems of healing, including yoga, reiki and pranic healing.
• Worked in the Valley School, Bangalore as a teacher of science in middle and senior school and a teacher of yoga.
• Since 2008 working as a part time faculty in IPH, looking at the health provision in an urban context and possible answers to bettering the quality of care working with the people in a single geographical ward of the city.

Educational Qualification :

• MBBS from CMC Vellore
• MPH from ITM. Antwerp

Contact details : roopa AT iphindia.org

Designation: Research-Assistant

Currently working on

• Strengthening the Health System in Tumkur District based on Action Research.

Work experience

• I worked as a District Supervisor in the ‘Health-Inc’ Project of IPH.

Educational Qualification:

•  Masters in social work

Contact details: santosh AT iphindia.org

Currently working on :

• Office maintenance,
• General administration work,
• IPH training logistics work and travel ,
• Making statuary payments
• Organizing events at IPH as and when needed.

Work experience

• 25 years of experience in construction feld as purchase and administration.logistics, statutory licensing and liasoning with government .
• Worked in ACCORD as project administrator.

Educational Qualification : B.A economics – Voorhese college Vellore

Contact details : sukumar AT iphindia.org

Visvesvaraya Technological University Designation – Faculty

Areas of specialisation

• Primary health care
• Secondary level of health care / secondary hospital management

Currently working on

• Socially inclusive health care financing in West Africa and India or Health Inc project
• Problem solving visits at Sira taluka, Tumkur

Work experience

• Mentor in Swasthya Karnataka project, Tumkur for 6 months
• Junior Consultant, Community health department, Christian Institute of Health Sciences & Research, Dimapur, Nagaland for 13 months

Educational Qualification

• MBBS from Kempegowda Institute of Medical Sciences, Bengaluru
• MD Community Medicine from Christian Medical College, Vellore

Contact details : tanya AT iphindia.org

• Maternal and Child Health
• Health System strengthening
• Disease Surveillance

Currently working on

• Urban Health Project: an action research on urban health issues in Bengaluru. Overall aim is to test strategies for improving access to quality health care, emphasizing bottom up approach based on community involvement. We are also trying to explore use of GPS and GIS in Public Health.
• Technical Consultation: Preventive and Curative Community Health Care on Malaria and Maternal & Child Health in the North East India.

Previous work experience

• Research Officer, National Public Health Service, Wales, UK.
• Clinical Audit Coordinator, Dudley PCT, UK
• Research Assistant, Walsall, tPCT, UK
• Medical Officer, PHC, Chitradurga Dist, Health and Family Welfare, Karnataka
• Duty Doctor, Kamakshi Hospital, Mysore and PVS Nursing Home,Chitradurga.

Educational Qualification

• M B B S from Mysore Medical College
• PG Diploma in Hospital Management from All India Institute of Management Studies, Chennai.
• MPH from University of Wolverhampton, UK.

Contact detailsThriveni AT iphindia.org

Designation – Faculty

Brief bio: I graduated as a dentist and worked with Gujarat government for two years at a tertiary public dental hospital at Ahmadabad with a mix of clinical and academic duties. I subsequently completed my Master in Public Health at Deakin University Australia with major in health promotion. I joined IPH in 2007 and since then working with IPH. Recently I have taken up PhD that explores how the role of local health systems can be strengthened to improve chronic disease care in India.

Work at IPH: At IPH, I am a faculty and a PhD scholar. Apart from my PhD work, I am involved in research and advocacy on tobacco control. I have also worked on other health system issues like community-based monitoring and planning of health, health management information systems etc.

Contact details: upendra AT iphindia.org, 91-80-26421929

Areas of interest

• Tobacco control
• Chronic diseases
• Behavior change
• Health systems

See publications and news reports

Designation:  Academic Officer

Areas of specialization

• Human Resources Management
• Organisational Behavior
• Counselling
• Content Development
• Ancient Indian History and Culture

Currently working on

• MPH Program
• Networking/ Liasioning

Previous work experience 18 Years

• NIIT, Bhopal
• Government of Madhya Pradesh, Bhopal
• ICFAI National School
• FSL-India(NGO)
• Prerana (NGO)

Educational Qualification:

• M.A ( Personnel Management)
• M.A ( Ancient Indian History)
• M.S ( Counselling and Psychotherapy)
• B.Ed.
• Diploma in French / Urdu

Contact details: vandana AT  iphindia.org

Designation – Faculty

Areas of specialisation

• TB/HIV
• Health system strengthening
• Maternal Health
• Public private partnership

Currently working on :

• HESVIC project at IPH

Work experience

• After graduation she joined the department of Health and Family welfare, Karnataka Government, as Assistant Surgeon in 2000.

During this tenure (2000-2005) she developed innovative strategies so that the benefits of primary health care policies reach the rural poor. Recognising her service, in the year 2006 she was awarded “Best Doctor of the District for Rural Services” by the Member of Parliament for her performance.

• In the year 2006,joined World Health Organisation (WHO) to work as National medical consultant for Revised National TB control Programme
• Deployed in three different states in India, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Chhattisgarh

Educational Qualification :

• MBBS from JJM Medical College, Davanagere, Karnataka
• Fellowship in HIV Medicine from Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi
• Master in Public Health from National University of Singapore

Contact details : vijayashree AT iphindia.org