Sanghamitra Singh is a trained health scientist, writer and public health researcher who straddles multiple roles at Population Foundation of India. As the lead, policy and programmes, she provides strategic oversight to all programmes, manages organizational partnerships with key stakeholders, and oversees the development and dissemination of the Foundation’s research and literature. She is a print and digital commentator on issues pertaining to the health and well-being of women and young people, with several opinion editorials, interviews and podcasts to her credit.

In a career spanning a decade, Sanghamitra has been previously associated with the George Washington University, Food and Drug Administration and National Institutes of Health. She has a PhD in Biological Sciences from the George Washington University. She is a Commission Fellow at the Lancet Citizen’s Commission for Reimagining India’s health System and Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Development Policy and Practice. In 2022, Sanghamitra was selected to be a part of the inaugural India cohort of WomenLift Health’s India Leadership journey.

Dhruv is public health graduate (Institute of Health Management Research, Jaipur) with a background in business management (Christ College, Bangalore). He began his career in public health as a research associate (CEHAT, Mumbai) where he participated in multiple on-going health services and systems research based advocacy studies like access to state funded health insurance schemes, free medicine schemes, integration of gender in medical education among other studies. In his last assignment, Dhruv worked with Piramal Swasthya on a project pertaining to improving access to PPTCT services in public health centres in Rajasthan aimed to eliminate HIV transmission among new-borns in close coordination with the state health mission and the state AIDS control society. Dhruv is passionate about playing sports (squash, swimming) and touring on his motorcycle.

Rakesh is associated as Senior Analyst – Knowledge Management with Population Foundation of India and has more than twenty years of professional experience in knowledge management, digital library project management, library development, and digital archiving. He is specialized in knowledge management and information database designing. He deals with various open source software, customization, managing knowledge portal server, user’s support and administration. He has extensive experience on information system implementation and technical up-gradation in library transformation and knowledge management. Acquisition of resources, abstracting and indexing, online access of resource, data support, information sharing & dissemination at various level, and the institutional repository is also his area of strength.

Rizwan is a passionate technologist with over 10 years of training and experience in co-building innovative products, managing digital footprints for NGOs, political parties and start-ups. At Population Foundation, he manages the Knowledge Hub and leads the organization’s technological and digital initiatives. He is stepping up for people by building technology to maximize social impact.

Mr. Milan Rana holds a Master degree in Commerce and Master degree in Business Administration with specialization in Finance. He has experience of over 16 years in the field of finance, accounting, budgeting, and statutory compliances. He has wide experience in Finalizations of Accounts, Budgeting and Budgetary controls, Internal controls, creating and managing financial systems, statutory compliance, Financial Audit, Management of FCRA Funds, Financial Analysis, Financial Assessment of NGOs, Fund management, Investment, Partners Management, Training to staff and partners on finance/admin./procurement, Closure of projects, HR Management, Procurement/Procurement audit, Management of agreements/contracts, Asset management, maintenance of organizational & project accounts, Preparation of financial documents for Management, donors and stakeholders and Management of funds.

Mithilesh works in the capacity of Accounts officer with Population Foundation. She has over 6 years of experience in the development sector and expertise in accounting and taxation.

Provash Kumar Paul has been working with Population Foundation of India since the year 1991 as a Facility in-charge. He maintains the overall functioning of the building.

Vijaya Reddy has been associated with Population Foundation of India for the last 11 years and is deputed as a Driver to Executive Director’s office car.

Sanjay Ekka has been associated with Population Foundation of India for the last 24 years. He ensures cleaning of office premises and supports pantry function as well as day-to-day routine support activities.

Rajesh is State Admin Officer with Population Foundation of India. He has more than a decade’s experience in finance, accounts and administration. Rajesh holds a Post Graduation degree in Commerce and in Business Administration (MBA) with Finance and Marketing specialisations. His expertise lies in managing events, procurement process, vendor management, corporate accounting, taxation and budgeting.

Bhawani Singh Shekhawat is an Office Assistant with Population Foundation’s Jaipur office. He is a qualified office coordinator with 2+ years of work experience in the sector of Administration. He holds a graduation degree.

Martand Kaushik is a journalist and communications professional with over ten years of experience. He has worked on the editorial staffs of organisations such as The Times of India and The Caravan. At The Caravan, he supervised a team of writers and reporters to cover politics, public health, education and the environment, among other public-policy issues. He has also written on issues such as politics, human rights, and arts and culture.

Martand hopes to build greater awareness in the media of the issues the Population Foundation of India works on, and use storytelling skills to produce text and visual content that prompts behavior change for positive health outcomes.

Mitakshi is a Public Health professional having Master’s degree in Public health -Health Administration from Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai. She has more than six years of work experience in the sphere of Family Planning and Adolescent Health. She has worked as a National Consultant with the Adolescent Health Division and Family Planning Division at the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MOHFW), GOI. She was involved with Ministry in developing guidelines of Model-Adolescent Friendly Health Guidelines (AFHCs) and she has been a Master trainer at the National level for providing RKSK training to Medical officers and counsellors. She has also been a team member of the Aspirational District Programme for Chhattisgarh, Annual Common Review Mission (CRM) and National Deworming Day. Prior to joining MOHFW, she worked with the State Health Department of Punjab as State Asst. Programme Officer- Reproductive Health. 

Ritu Singh is a development professional. She is having 10 years of progressively responsible experience in program implementation, social mobilization, outreach experiences for strengthening better health services, advocacy, holistic development of adolescents and youth in their community.
At Population Foundation of India, she is associated in the capacity of District Program Officer-Darbhanga. She coordinates with District Health Society-Darbhanga for implementation and scaling up Community Action for Health (CAH) program. She also doing advocacy with district-level officials for strengthening of Village Health Sanitation and Nutrition Committees (VHSNC) and improvement of family planning services in the district. Capacity building of partners and motivating the community for health entitlements, informed rights is part of the contribution in bringing changes in the life of people.

Smarajit Chakraborty has over 27 years of experience primarily in the areas of public health management, partnership building, networking & policy advocacy, Urban Health, Community participation and Family Planning. He has earlier worked with Population Foundation’s Health of the Urban Poor Project (HUP), CARE India and in UNICEF in the states of Odisha, Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Assam and Sikkim. Smarajit has also worked as Program Manager in CAH from March 2016 to November 2017 at AGCA Secretariat. He has served Jansankhya Sthirata Kosh(an autonomous body under MoHFW) as Team Leader from November 2017 to March 2019 in Delhi. He holds a post-graduate degree from XISS, Ranchi and a master’s degree in Population Studies from the International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai. He is pursuing his PhD studies on “Urban Health” from Utkal University, Bhubaneswar.

Seema Upadhyay has 17 years of experience in different sectors of development, which include community development, health, livelihoods and organizational development. She has worked with the government, NGOs, research institutions and donor agencies handling various aspects of programme management. Ms Upadhyay has previously worked with Seva Mandir, Udaipur on community development; Institute of Development Studies, Jaipur on issues around food security and agriculture; Social Policy Research Institute, Jaipur on tourism, water, power and agriculture issues; NRHM, Jaipur district as District Programme Manager; UNICEF Rajasthan documenting maternal and child health interventions; and ARAVALI, Jaipur on building institutional capacities for working with the poor. Ms Upadhyay holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Rural Management from the Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA), Gujarat and Bachelor’s degree in Botany from Delhi University.

Prerna Puri is currently working as a Specialist, Advocating Reproductive Choices (ARC). ARC is a coalition of 115 organisations collectively working towards advancing access to quality family planning services in India. Prerna manages the Secretariat of ARC, hosted at Population Foundation of India since 2015.

With more than 6 years of experience, Prerna has worked at national level organisations such as; Foundation for Reproductive Choices India and Press Information Bureau, leading their campaigns and external communication portfolios. An engineer by academics, Prerna started her professional journey as a journalist, following her passion to positively impact the communities.

She supports the Advisory Group on Communication Action (AGCA) Secretariat as a focal person. With over 24 years of experience in the development sector, her expertise centred around in developing programme reports; reviewing financial reports; editing documents and publications; managing website and administration

Balbeer Singh is a development professional with Master in Sociology along with more than 15 years of experience of planning, implementation of programme in different issues like- gender, adolescent development, family planning strengthening of government institutions, community process at grass root to district and state level including planning & implementation and Balbeer is also a state level trainer on health.

Balbeer has been associated with Population Foundation of India since October 2018 and has been working on improving governance and management of public health facilities. He is stepping up qualitative health service for people and communities, adolescent health through Rogi Kalyan Samiti across the Uttar Pradesh state to driving the change and want to work for community action for health. He has also previously worked with Parivartan, Sakhi Kendra and PHFI.

Priyamvada is a development professional with over three decades of experience in education, health, gender, women’s empowerment and rights. She has implemented large-scale innovative programmes for marginalized populations while engaging with the government at the state and national levels. She has a Ph.D. in social sciences from the University of Rajasthan and an MBA (general management) from Delta International University, USA. She is also a registered Advocate with Rajasthan High Court. She has received several awards, including one at the ‘Every Footstep Counts Film Competition-2016’ at the International AIDS Conference in South Africa.

She has worked for reputed organizations such as the Center for Global Public Health (CGPH),  the University of Manitoba (UM), CARE-India, and Lok Jumbish. She has authored /co-authored a range of publications on HIV-AIDS and education and Life- Skills issues.  Before joining Population Foundation of India, she was with IPE Global as an Advisor- Policy and Outreach for their CIFF-funded projects in Rajasthan.

Parimal Chandra a Senior Specialist and State Head of Bihar Team at Population Foundation of India and leads the operation of the Community for Action Health Programme. An experienced development professional with public health as the core area has almost two decades of experience in the sector. He has worked with several national and international organisations in the past PATH, UNICEF, CARE, Aga Khan Foundation and UNNATI.  

Parimal also brings in the diverse learning from his experience of working across four states- Gujarat, Rajasthan, Bihar, and Jharkhand on components of Reproductive and Child Health (RCH), Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (ARSH) Integrated Nutrition and Health program, Infant, and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) Disaster response.   

He has authored several articles in eminent journals at national level and participated in several international and national workshops. His areas of expertise can be looked upon in leadership skills, project management, capacity building, behaviour change communication, partnership management and advocacy for positive contribution to organizational development.  

He holds a post graduate degree from XISS Ranchi and has completed one-year e-Public Health & Nutrition Certificate course from Indian Institute of Public Health, New Delhi. Parimal has also undertaken several certificate courses on various public health and nutrition subjects to add value to his experience and knowledge. 

Neeraj is associated with Population Foundation of India as State Programme Officer, he has nearly 19 years of experience in the Development sector in various capacities for Non-Government Organizations, the Private Sector, Government Departments and funding agencies. He holds a wide experience in Communications including programme communications, managing media relations, organizing campaigns including digital media and developing video/audio and textual materials. Besides Communications, he has also worked in programs reaching out to grass root levels and establishing networks with diverse stakeholders in the process, thus giving him a holistic view of the development programs.

Alok is an experienced Development Professional, M&E Specialist and Researcher with progressive experience in evidence based development. Alok has worked with national and international organizations and has specialization in evaluation design, planning, implementation, and use in multiple contexts and domains. Alok was member of Family Planning 2020 (FP2020) Performance Monitoring and Evaluation Working Group (PME WG) for 2016-18. Alok has led several international and national level research studies, reviews and evaluations. Alok was actively involved in drafting of revised State Population Policy in Uttar Pradesh in 2016 and National ICT in Education policy for Ministry of HRD, GOI in 2007. He has also led the process of Bihar Population Policy Development in collaboration with State Health Society, Bihar in late 2019.