State Teams

Dr. Shalini Kapoor

State Program and Technical Head

Dr. Shalini Kapoor is a Medical Professional with specialist training in Pediatrics and Neonatology, Public Health Management and Medical law and Ethics. She brings with her 22 years of experience in health sector with clinical, public health expertise and competencies in program planning, management, implementation and evaluation.

Shalini has experience in managing large public health programs and employs strong team building approach with multi stakeholder perspective in bringing health outcomes, which reach the most underserved through capacity building and field connect.

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Dr. Savita Sharma

Senior Specialist – Urban Health

Dr. Savita Sharma has total professional experience of 14 years in various positions in the private and government sector, especially with the Government of Madhya Pradesh. She has obtained Master’s in Healthcare Management from Indian Institute of Health Management Research (IIHMR), Jaipur, Rajasthan;

and Bachelor’s in Dental Surgery from Shimla, Himachal Pradesh University, Himachal Pradesh. At LEHS|WISH, she is responsible for Urban Health Quality Assurance as a Specialist.

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Rohini Jinsiwale

Lead – CPHC

Rohini Jinsiwale holds an M.Phil degree in Economics with twenty-six years of experience in Public Health Sector. She is responsible for providing Techno-managerial support to NHM to strengthen the Health and Wellness Programme, Mental health and Geriatric care.

Her expertise includes program planning, Strategy designing, Programme implementation, data management and analysis, and process documentation of activities/programs/interventions, including coordination with all relevant internal and external stakeholders. She possesses strong communication and organizational skills.

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Dr. Avichandra Arunsingh Golait

Manager- Public Health

Dr. Golait holds a Masters’ degree in Public Health from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, Maharashtra. He is a dedicated, result oriented public health professional with more than five years of progressive experience in RMNCHA+

and public health insurance with strong relationships with administrators and department leaders to ensure the successful and effective operations of various programs.

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Akhilesh Yadav

Manager- Learning & Impact

As part of the WISH state team, Akhilesh is responsible for all monitoring and learning related activities in Madhya Pradesh. In his current role, his key deliverables include Data Cleaning and Data Analysis for maternal health ‘programs; implementing M&E framework for other major program areas; and supporting various training programs.

Before joining WISH, he worked as District Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist at Indian Health Action Trust’s RMNCH+A Project (June 2015-May 2016). His responsibilities revolved around providing monitoring support in strengthening the quality of data, and ensuring data availability on a timely basis. He also provided data related feedback to all government officials on major program components, and supported DHS, IMI, and Family Planning review meetings. The highlight of his role was capacity building of all Block level staff (BPM, BCPM, DEO).

Akhilesh holds a Master’s degree in Health Statistics, Master’s in Population Studies, and he is pursuing PhD in Biostatistics from IMS, BHU. His interest areas include Maternal Health, Child Health, Respectful Maternity Care, NCD, Health Management Information System, and Government Data Base.

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Dr. Naresh Potter

State Technical and Program Lead

Dr. Naresh Potter has done MBBS and MD (Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases) from University of Rajasthan, India. Before joining LEHS|WISH, he worked with Piramal Foundation, Ministry of Health-Saudi Arabia, Jhpiego, UNICEF and Ministry of Health and Family Welfare-Government of India. 

Dr. Ambey Kumar Srivastava

Senior Specialist- Learning & Impact

Dr. Ambey Kumar Srivastava is a development professional in public health, having more than 20 years’ experience in research, monitoring, evaluation and documentation. He has extensively worked in implementation, research and technical support projects on health and HIV/AIDS.

Prashant Ghiya

Manager – Finance & Accounts

Prashant Ghiya is a highly analytical, deadline-driven Finance and Accounts professional with more than 15 years of experience. He completes all financial reports and accounting activities with accuracy and speed. He has done MBA in Finance.

Dr. Anil Kumar Jain

Manager – Operations, TSU Baran

Dr. Anil Kumar Jain is a qualified professional with over 15 years of experience in working in the health and education sectors. His work profile ranges from strategic and policy-level leadership, advisory, and management experience with strong analytical and conceptual skills to proven ability in the development of programs and processes involving a diverse and complex range of partners and stakeholders.

Dr. Rajan Kumar Gupt

Manager – Learning & Impact

Rajan holds an M.Phil and Ph.D. in Population Studies from the International Institute for Population Sciences in Mumbai. With 9 years of experience in the public health sector, he has focused on various areas including primary health care, labour room strengthening, technical support units, nutrition, maternal and child health, reproductive health, and family planning.

Heikrujam Nongyai Nongdrenkhomba

State Program and Technical Head

Mr. Nongyai holds a Master’s degree in Anthropology, and has over eighteen years of work experience in the development sector at the state and national levels. His domain expertise lies in Public Health; and other areas of interest and experience include Livelihood, Good Governance, Gender, Social Inclusion, Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), and Community Participation.

Diganta Sarma

Senior Manager- Programs

Diganta Sarma has fifteen years of work experience in the public health sector where his main role included liaisoning and coordination with various stakeholders including government functionaries; and providing technical support to National Health Mission, Assam, in program designing and implementation, monitoring and supervision, etc.

Dipannita Kaushik

Sr. Manager – Urban

Dr. Dipannita Kaushik, a native of Guwahati, Assam, completed her MBBS in 2015 from MUHS, Nashik, Maharashtra. She worked as a Clinician for two years in Guwahati in Internal Medicine, OBGY and Emergency department. As she was more interested in planning and implementation at scale, advocacy, capacity building, grant management, community mobilization, 

Debabrata Saha

Manager at State Health Innovation Unit (SHIU),Assam

Debabrata is a development consulting professional with 7+ years of working experience of managing social purpose programs, project implementation, impact measurement, strategic government partnerships with a formal development management training and aspirations to bring measurable impact at scale.

Dr. Swaroop Pattanayak

Innovation Specialist, Assam

Swaroop is a Public Health professional with over 9 years of progressive experience in same domain. He has done his post-graduation in hospital and health management from IIHMR, New Delhi. Prior to joining LEHS|WISH, he was associated with he was associated with UNICEF and previously worked in Care India.

Apurba Kumar Das

Sr. Manager – SBCC

Mr. Apurba Kumar Das is Bachelor in Pharmacy from Rajeev Gandhi University of Health Sciences, PGDPM (Post Graduate Diploma in Pharmaceutical Management – internship with Six Sigma at Tata Motors Jamshedpur) from Institute of Clinical Research India, MSc. In Clinical Research from Institute of Clinical Research India-Delhi, Master in Public Health from Open Global University-Nagaland.

Mohd. Sohrab Alam

Manager – Data and Digital

Sohrab has almost 10 years of experience in Healthcare IT. He has extensively worked in hospital HIS, specializing in HisTree, Palash and Heartbeat HIS application strategies in IT. He was earlier associated with Perzue Health Pvt. Ltd.  as a Team Leader

Dr. Anand Kantilal Sontakke

Team Lead – BMC

Dr. Anand has almost 25 years of experience in Project & Programs Coordination with leading Health organizations. He was earlier associated with JHIPEGO as Team Lead Surveillance and has previously worked with organizations like WHO, Municipal Corporation, UNFPA etc.

Kamakshi Balasubramanian

Project Manager (Urban Health), Mumbai

Kamakshi is a development professional having experience of 3+ years in urban primary healthcare. I have done my graduation in Engineering in the field of Electronics and Telecommunication from University of Mumbai. As with most engineers my age, it is during engineering that I gave a serious thought to my career path and discovered my interest in the social impact sector.

Dr. Madhur Nivrutti Raimule

Specialist- Technical & NCD, Mumbai

In the field of public health, Dr. Madhur Nivrutti Raimule Specialist- Technical & NCD has more than 8 years of progressively expanding expertise. He received his MD from the Department of Community Medicine at the Dr. D Y Patil Medical College in Pune, as well as his MBBS and Bachelor of Medicine in Medicine from Maharashtra University.

Chandrashekhar

Specialist-Learning & Impact, Mumbai

Chandrashekhar is a Learning & Impact professional with over 8+ years of progressive experience. He has done his M.Phil from IIPS, Mumbai and perusing PHD from International Institute of Populations Sciences, Mumbai.

Ms. Koyeli Bhattacharjee

Manager-Data, Mumbai

Koyeli is a Public Health professional with over 15 years of progressive experience in the public health domain. She has done her Masters in Population studies from IIPS and is currently pursuing PHD in Public Health from TATA Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai.

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