Prof. Divya Aggarwal - Divya has graduated from Delhi University in the field of Instrumentation. After that, she did her M.B.A specializing in Human Resources and Finance from Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi. She has more than 15 years of Academic and consultancy experience and has diverse knowledge of the corporate world. Divya is an expert on long-term success. For the past decade she devoted her energy to the investigation of long-living corporations - how they grow, adapt, and consistently beat their competitors. Under her supervision, nine post graduate students carried out research work in the area of Zoonoses which was funded by International organization. She had carried out research project on workload assessment of ANMs funded by UNICEF and has carried out various projects related to strategy and HR viz., strategy evaluation, workforce planning, competency mapping, talent retention strategies at the corporate level. She conducted Attitude Survey of Employees of Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC Bank Ltd) on 16 parameters on All India Basis and made Action Plan. She has conducted various trainings and workshops on areas related to Organizational behavior in various organizations and b-schools. Besides this, she has written various research papers in the journal of national and international repute. She is also pursuing her PhD in the area of talent management from Amity University, Noida.

Dr. Sumant Kumar Swain has a background in social sciences and awarded M Phil and Ph.D from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India. He has cleared his UGC NET. He joined as a Research Officer (2007) and Senior Research Officer (2011) at IIHMR, Delhi.During his stay at the Institute, he was engaged in more than 40 health research projects including large scale surveys such as LASI, DLHS and NFHS. Before joining IIHMR-Delhi, he has worked with NCERT, New Delhi, India. Dr. Swain has more than twelve years of experience in national health programme evaluations, operational and formative research projects using both qualitative and quantitative methods in various health and social programmes. He was a visiting scholar at the Institute of Oriental Studies under Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia in different assignments under Indo-Russian Cultural Exchange Program by Indian Council for Social Science Research (ICSSR), Government of India. He has published one book, seven edited books and many research papers in different disciplines. His areas of interest are health survey research, implementation research, programme evaluation, project management, monitoring & evaluation, health system research, health governance and health security.

Education

M. Phil and Ph.D (JNU), Post Graduate Dipl

Dr. Sidharth Sekhar Mishra is a medical doctor with post-graduation in public health from All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) New Delhi and then pursued his senior residenship from Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER, Chandigarh). He is a double post graduate degree holder with MD and DNB from National Board of Examination. He has been a part of the development of the National Health portal development. He was working as the consultant for COVID control pandemic at national level in Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Nirman Bhawan, New Delhi. He has almost 7 years' experience of training almost 3 lakh MBBS doctors for their post graduate examination. He is a social media academic influencer with a combined following of almost 50 k students. He has more than 10 publications in indexed journals; 5 books and part of UN research projects. He has visited more than 25 countries globally and brings in rich global public health experience on the table.

Dr. Rupsa Banerjee has done her MBBS and MD in Community Medicine from Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Karnataka, following which she completed DNB in Community Medicine. She also received PG Diploma in Mental Health from IGNOU and Diploma in Community Mental Health from NIMHANS.

Rupsa is a public health professional with over 7 years of diverse experience in the fields of medical education, clinical and patient care, public health research, health systems strengthening, providing technical support to public health programmes and capacity building. She has led multi-disciplinary teams in conducting outbreak investigations and community surveys. She has contributed to the operationalization of Ayushman Bharat Health & Wellness Centres (AB-HWCs) across the country. She has conducted over 10 national level training programmes for the delivery of Comprehensive Primary Health Care through AB-HWCs. She has also contributed to developing several policy documents, technical reports, programme operational guidelines and training modules for the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. Rupsa has published 15 scientific papers in renowned national and international academic journals and authored chapters in medical textbooks. Her areas of interest are epidemiology, mental health, health systems strengthening and research.

Dr. Rohini Ruhil is PhD in Social Medicine and Community Health from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. Her other qualifications include BDS, PGDHHM and MA (Rural Development). She secured a Gold Medal at the university level in her master’s from IGNOU. She is also an alumna of IIHMR Delhi and secured a Gold Medal for best all round performance in PGDHHM. She qualified UGC-NET-JRF and got a scholarship to pursue her PhD as JRF and SRF. Her experiences include teaching, research, tobacco cessation and industry. She has also worked as a consultant in the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare.

She has 19 publications in journals of national and international repute including Elsevier and Sage. She is also a reviewer in several national and international journals including BMC Public Health, BMJ Open, Sage Open and Tobacco Induced Diseases (TID). She has also authored a chapter in a book. She has worked on several manuals of MOHFW including national tobacco cessation guidelines. Further, she has drafted a few manuals for WHO-SEARO Tobacco Free Initiatives.

She has done the Global Tobacco Control Certificate Program from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA, for which she received a scholarship. She has presented papers in several national and international conferences, workshops and seminars and secured a few awards including Best Poster Prize and a Prize in Slogan competition in public health. She has also done national training of trainers (TOT) program in the TB-Tobacco integration Project.

Overall, she has a passion for research and academics.

Dr. Mukesh Ravi Raushan is Assistant Professor at International Institute of Health Management Research, Delhi. Dr. Raushan is a demographer by training and having interest in empirical methods like causal analysis, simultaneous equation modelling and inferential statistics. After studying Social Anthropology from University of Delhi, he moved to International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), where he completed his PhD. His doctoral work was on human capital and intra-familial relationships.

His work focuses on, but not limited to demography, nutrition, education, development, empowerment, violence, gender, adolescent, ageing and society. In recent years, he has written extensively on adolescent health, ageing, and survey methods in developing countries and its linkages with critical indicators of population, health and development. Dr. Raushan has published over 18 articles, chapters and scientific reports.

His expertise in monitoring, learning and evaluation; large scale survey data analysis and survey research is an asset. In recent years, Dr. Raushan largely worked on health & mortality, disease burden, abortion, reproductive & sexual health, medical anthropology, ageing, adolescent health, gender and development, and critical global health. For monitoring, learning and supervision, other than research, he remained resourceful on research methodology, survey research methods, data structure, management and analysis. His area of interest are biostatistics, applied demography, survey research, monitoring, learning and supervision, data quality assurance, public policy, programme evaluations and intervention studies.

Before joining IIHMR-Delhi, he was associated with Longitudinal Ageing Study in India (LASI), International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS); Situation of Adolescent, Dasra, Impact Foundation; Evidence Action, and Sigma Research. Dr. Raushan is interested in applying his research and technical expertise to provide evidence-based support to explore an unexplored area of research other than teaching and capacity building.

Dr. Sukesh Bhardwaj is an IT professional with 9+ years of work experience in Information technology domain. By qualification, he is a Ph.D. in Cloud Computing, MCA, Cisco Certified Network Associate. He has also done Global Net Plus Diploma in Systems and Networking from NIIT.

He has worked at IIHMR Delhi as a Senior System Analyst-IT Deptt. Head more than 7 years. He worked as an IT Coordinator in National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5) Odisha State and (NFHS-4) Chhattisgarh State under Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. He has an extensive experience in Technical Trainings, SOP Development, Systems Planning & Designing, Integration and development.

He has expertise on several types of ERPs for Real-Estate, and Education industry. CRM’s, Payroll and biometric Systems, Security Surveillance systems, He is also engaged in Academic Teaching and other trainings within the organization.

Mr. Pijush Kanti Khan is an Assistant Professor at International Institute of Health Management Research, Delhi. He is a trained demographer & health economist and has an interest in empirical research. Prior to this, Mr. Pijush was working as a Senior Research Officer at International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai. His primary interest lies in the areas of Applied Demography, Economic Aspects of Health care, Maternal & Child Health, Quantitative Data Analysis, Model Specification & Multilevel Modelling. He has several publications in reputed international journals like -The Milbank Quarterly, Social Science & Medicine, Tropical Medicine & International Health, American Journal of Preventive Medicine, and Royal Society for Public Health etc. He has extensive experience in working with Indian sample survey datasets- National Family Health Survey (NFHS), National Sample Survey (NSS), and District Level Household Survey (DLHS). He has already submitted his Ph.D. Thesis on Population Studies at IIPS, Mumbai. His doctoral work is on Health Insurance, Health care Utilization, and Health Spending in India.

A Medical graduate & Post – Graduate (MBA) in Hospital Management from Jamia Hamdard University, New Delhi and Ph.D. in Hospital Management/ Management from MATS University, Raipur, Chhattisgarh & one-year Advance Diploma in Computer Software from IICE, New Delhi. More than 12 years of Industry experience in the field of Hospital Administration / Management, Hospital Functioning, Medical administration, clinical and non-clinical operations, strategic planning and implementation, Purchase, Supply chain Management, Finance, Business Development, Cost Rationalization, P&L management, and Revenue, Consultant/Doctors Engagement, Accounting, Internal Quality Management & Audit, Inventory Management, Legal aspects, MRD, Medical Equipment, and Drugs- Budgeting and Planning, Manpower Planning, HMIS system, MIS, Quality Accreditation- JCI, NABH & NABL accreditation, Patient Safety, Risk Management, formulation of policy & SOPs. 

Worked for the Apollo Hospitals Group for four years. Worked as Asst. Medical Superintendent in a Hospital / Institute for more than eight years with a total bed capacity of 1400 Beds. a tertiary care multi-specialty hospital and Regional Cancer Institute attached with PT. Jawahar Lal Nehru Memorial Medical College, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India.

Besides this have attended various National & International conferences, seminars, training programs and workshops and have presented various papers in the National & International Conferences / seminars. Have written various papers in National and International Journals of repute. 

Have been Awarded under GOLD and SILVER category by Skoch Foundation at the 47th Skoch Summit, held at Constitution Club of India, Rafi Marg, New Delhi. Awarded by Honorable Health Minister of State of Chhattisgarh, Mr. T.S. Singdeoji & Chairman Chhattisgarh Women’s Commission Ms. Kiran Mai nayak for exemplary work in the Medical College Hospital in fighting the COVID pandemic on 23rd Dec 2021 held at Raipur, Chhattisgarh.

Ratika Samtani is a Ph.D. in Anthropology from University of Delhi and was awarded the Teaching Fellowship by University of Delhi while pursuing her research. She has also cleared UGC-NET.

Ratika worked as an Assistant Professor at Amity University, Noida for a span of ten years. She was also awarded the Young Investigators award by Department of Biotechnology for her project proposal in the field of Cancer Biology. Under this, she was the Principal Investigator of the DBT funded project, “Screening and Epigenetic Profiling of Ovarian Cancer in Malwa region of Punjab” for a span of four years. She has supervised and mentored a number of doctoral students’ scholars in their research endeavors.

Ratika has carried out a number of research projects and published articles in the area of environmental health, pesticide toxicity, cancer epigenetics, infectious diseases, bio-social determinants of health, genetics of complex disorders, beta thalassemia, sickle cell anemia etc. She has published more than 25 research articles in national and international journals of repute and has presented papers in various National and International Conferences. She has also developed e-content modules for online learning platforms like e-pg pathshala and e-gyan kosh. 

Ratika also held the position of Manager-Learning and Development at NatureNurture Eduserv, where she created curriculum using a variety of pedagogical approaches (such as Bloom's taxonomy, the Theory of Cognitive Development by Jean Piaget, Howard Gardner's Model of Multiple Intelligences, and 21st century skills).

Dr. Shweta Sagar is an Assistant Professor at Indian Institute of Health Management Research, Ph.D. in Human Resource Management from Faculty of Social Science Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. Masters in HRM and bachelor’s in social work from Jamia Millia Islamia and a recipient of UGC NET-JRF and SRF scholarship for pursuing her doctorate.

She has over 5 years of experience in teaching diverse management and HR/OB, training and development, organization change & development specialization courses.  Prior joining she was associated with Amity University, IMS Noida, Indore Institute of Management and Research, Indore, Bhai Parmanand Institute of Business Studies and Meerabai Institute of Technology, New Delhi. Dr. Sagar thrives great interest towards research and have published various papers in peer reviewed and UGC Care Journals and book chapters. She has also attended multiple national and international conference and is a receiver of "Best Paper" award in one of the conferences. Her area of interest includes training and development, organization behavior, talent acquisition and retaining, performance appraisal, people management and allied subjects.

 I belong to Statistics background from University of Delhi. In the past I have worked as a lecturer at Sri Venkateshwara College, University of Delhi and with some research organizations and institutes to build their capacities in addressing data with statistical tools and techniques. Looking forward to my new role at IIHMR.