People India

Professor Vivekanand Jha is the Executive Director at The George Institute for Global Health, India, Chair of Global Kidney Health, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College of London, and the President of the International Society of Nephrology.

Abhinav Bassi is a physiotherapist trained in public health, currently working as a Senior Resear

Amit manages Operations and Finance for India offices at The George Institute for Global Health. He is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and holds a graduate degree in Commerce from Delhi University. 

Dr Arpita Ghosh works at the George Institute for Global Health India as a Senior Research Fellow on Big Data. Arpita received her doctoral training at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and post-doctoral training at the National Cancer Institute.

Chhavi leads the advocacy and policy engagement programme to help increase the impact of the institute’s health and medical research.

Dr. Praveen is a public health specialist with thorough knowledge of epidemiological study designs and having a keen interest in systems based innovations to address inequities related to chronic diseases. 

Devaki Nambiar is Program Head – Health Systems and Equity at the George Institute for Global Health. She has a doctorate in public health from Johns Hopkins.Dr. Nambiar has close to a decade and a half of research experience in over half a dozen countries and as many Indian states.

Jagnoor is Senior Research Fellow, with a background in injury epidemiology.

Josyula K. Lakshmi is a is a Senior Research Fellow at the George Institute, working on the LIVING study – a lifestyle intervention for diabetes prevention in women with prior gestational diabetes.

Kannan Krishnaswamy has around 24 years of experience, 14 years of which have been as a journalist with The Hindu, one of India’s premier newspapers. 

Madhuri is the Head - Centre for Operational Research Excellence at George Institute for Global Health India and leads research management and capacity building initiatives. She is an India Research Management Initiative (IRMI) Fellow, supported by the DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance. Madhuri is part of the global CORE unit and works with colleagues from other regional offices of the institute.

Salam is a Senior Research Fellow at The George Institute for Global Health India. Salam holds a Masters in Pharmacy (Pharmacology) and a PhD in Medicine from The University of Sydney, Australia.

Oommen John is Senior Research Fellow at The George Institute. He completed his undergraduate and post graduate training in Internal Medicine at the Christian Medical College, Ludhiana, India. He has also undertaken executive business management training from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta.

Pallab leads Research department at The George Institute for Global Health, India. He trained as a psychiatrist at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, received training in public health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, as well as Johns Hopkins School of Public Health where he pursued his Masters and Doctoral training.

Preety R Rajbangshi works at the George Institute for Global Health India as a Senior Research Fellow, leading India’s Global Women’s Health Programme. Preety received her master’s degree in Public Health at the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Rohina is an Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW Sydney and holds an honorary appointment at the Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney.

Surekha Garimella is a Senior Research Fellow at the George Institute, working on the ARISE Hub – a project aimed at strengthening accountability mechanisms for improving equitable health and well-being for people living and working in informal urban spaces.

Dr Susmita Chaterjee works at The George Institute for Global Health India as a Senior Health Economist. She has a PhD from the University of Calcutta, and is interested in investigating costing of health services, health financing, and economic evaluations. 

Vikash R Keshri is Senior Research Fellow at the George Institute for Global Health. He has completed MBBS and MD in community medicine from the Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (MGIMS), Wardha in India, and a short course in Health Policy Analysis from Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium.

Sandhya received her doctoral degree in Social Medicine and Community Health from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her work with TGI’s mental health programme involves assessing the effectiveness of technology enabled delivery of mental health care by primary healthcare workers for depression, suicide and stress among adolescents in urban slum communities in Delhi and Vijayawada.