Current

Independent Consultant

2026 to date

Advisory services related to environmental health

Work

Pahle India Foundation, New Delhi

TERI New Delhi India,

TARU Leading Edge, New Delhi, India

Scientific & Technology Lead, India–Lead Elimination Action Partnership (i-LEAP) 2025 to 2026

Led iLEAP’s scientific and research agenda on lead poisoning and environmental health, providing strategic research leadership, scientific oversight, evidence generation, as well as national and international technical collaborations.

Associate Fellow · Senior Fellow 2007 to 2008 and 2022 to 2023

Research and advocacy related to Environmental Health

Senior Manager (Public Health) · Sector Adviser (Health & Nutrition), 2014 to 2014 and 2015 to 2017

Health and Nutrition lead

International Experience

WHO Headquarters, Geneva

WHO Country Office for India

WHO South-East Asia Regional Office, New Delhi

PAHO/WHO

European Unin Delegation to India & Bhutan

Principal Investigator / Grantee, Alliance for Health Policy Systems Research (AHPSR) · Invited Speaker 2023 to 2024;2014

India lead for a 12-country project on health policy and systems research responding to the climate crisis.
Invited speaker, 1st Global Conference on Health and Climate, WHO Headquarters, Geneva.

Consultant 2024-2025

Technical support on the social implications of Government of India's energy transition policy towards Net Zero.

Temporary Adviser · Co-rapporteur · Consultant, 2007:2012;2015

Regional strategy meeting on health and climate ahead of the Paris COP21 (2015); high-level meetings in Bhutan and Bangladesh; expert meetings in New Delhi, Aurangabad and Dhaka.

2010

Represented India at the Costa Rica global consultation convened to develop the first WHO/PAHO guides on health vulnerability and climate adaptation assessment

Medical Adviser (pro bono) 2020 to 2021

Advised the Delegation and EU missions in India on COVID-19 pandemic response in the local context.

Academic Experience

Morton K. Blaustein Dept. of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins University

Bloomberg School of Public Health

International Institute of Health Management and Research (IIHMR), New Delhi, India

TERI University (now TERI School of Advanced Studies)

Dept. of Physiology, Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute, Delhi, India

Visiting Faculty / Fulbright Fellow 2013 to 2014

Time-series analysis of climate and health towards estimating climate-attributable disease burden in India

Research Assistant · Virtual Lectures 2003-2005;2021;2022;2025

Malaria-parasite estimation by fluorescent microscopy for a West Africa insecticide-treated bed-net project; virtual lectures on Climate and Health in India.

Remote lectures on climate and health in India for Master’s and Doctoral students

Visiting Faculty. Assistant Professor. Associate Professor. 2009 2009-2014;2014-2022

As Visiting Faculty taught a course on Applied Demography and Population Dynamics
Academics, research, training and consultancy related to public health
Convenor, Centre for Climate, Environment and Health, Feb 2018 to Aug. 2022
Nodal Officer, Centre of Excellence for Vulnerability Needs Assessment under National Action Plan for Climate Change and Human, National Centre for Disease Control, Govt. of India

Adjunct Faculty 2007

Developing and teaching a course on Public Health and Sustainable Development as part of MA (Public Policy and Sustainable Development) Programme for mid-career civil servants of Government of India

Junior Resident, May 2000-Apr. 2003

Designed, conducted and evaluated study on passive smoking and respiratory health of urban poor children

Consultancies

International Clinical Epidemiology Network (INCLEN), New Delhi, India

Aloance for Health Policy and Systems Research (AHPSR), WHO Headpuarters

Program Consultant, Feb. 2006-Oct. 2006

Protocol development for evaluation of Integrated Management of Neonatal and Childhood Illnesses in India (IMNCI)
Review for study on Governance of Public Health Systems in relation to maternal mortality
Initiated low cost oximetry project in India (LOCOP)
Developed INCLEN internship program

Principal Investigator and Grantee. Oct. 2023 to Dec. 2024

India lead for 12- country project on Health Policy and Systems Research Research Responding to the Climate Crisis