Professional Experience:
Consultancy experience: WHO-SEARO, (Division of Child & Adolescent Health) submitted a draft Regional Communication Strategy for Birth Defects Prevention. [October 2013 -February, 2014]. Head, Project Development, Manas Foundation, New Delhi: support to the Ford Foundation Building Bonds project, grant writing and technical support. WHO Consultant, Bangalore Healthy Urbanization Project [September 2006 – December 2007]. Consultant CI/COM Division (UNESCO H.Q). Supported UNESCO-HQ mission on Evaluation of UNESCO’s Partnerships Aimed at Strengthening Communication Capacities through Specialized Networks IAMCR, AMIC and ORBICOM (Canada, Singapore and Europe), (2003-04). Consultant, UNDP Regional HIV/AIDS Project (REACH), 2004.
Project experience: Design and conduct of Landscape Analysis on Nutrition Initiatives in Madhya Pradesh for the International Food Policy Research Institute led POSHAN project under the Health Communication Division funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (2011-12). Participated in the 4th NRHM Common Review Mission (CRM), Uttarakhand (2009). Supported the Indian Language Print Media (ILPM) component of the PHFI- Strengthening of Tobacco control Efforts through innovative Partnerships and Strategies (STEPS) project funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (2009-2010). Facilitated design and implementation of the ‘Maanvta se Anmol Man tak’ campaign, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (2011). Supported the PHFI initiative ‘Road-Map for Combating Zoonoses in India’ (RCZI) by designing a draft Short-Term Strategy and web-page on Communication & Advocacy for the Prevention & Control of Zoonoses in India, WHO-India (2009). Nodal Officer for the Red Ribbon Express at the National AIDS Control Organization (2005). Project Leader, AJK Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia. Administered grant from the International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC) at UNESCO HQ, Paris. Scheme was accredited Diploma status (1994-97).
Academic experience: Guest faculty & External Examiner at the Division of Development Communication and Extension, Lady Irwin College, Delhi University (on-going). Communication curriculum design and training support to Governments of Sikkim, Jharkhand and Odisha, India (2009-2011). Supported Distance Learning programmes at Jamia Millia Islamia (Countrywide Classroom, 1997-1999) and at PHFI (instructional design support to on-line courses on Public Health Nutrition and Epidemiology). Communication Needs Assessment and curriculum design for People for Health project (2011-13). Participated in teaching the Post-Graduate Diploma in Public Health Management at PFHI (2009-2011). Taught Communication Theory, Research & Practicum at the Post-Graduate level at AJK Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia, Millia Islamia (1988-1999).
Media products: supported the Healthy India website (Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India), [2009-2013]. Supervised an o