Executive Director

Dr. Sunil Mehra, MD (Paediatrics) from Banaras Hindu University, India has been a practising paediatrician for over three decades. Has founded MAMTA in 1990 and with his vision expanded its work to 12 states of India and neighbouring countries of Bangladesh and Nepal.

Dr. Mehra has conceptualized, developed and provided technical inputs into numerous maternal newborn and child health projects and has contributed immensely to the policy and program dialogue in the country and the region. He has been part of many task forces and committees in India and globally. He continues to support formulation of strategies and interventions to address issues like adolescent reproductive and sexual health, maternal and child health, HIV and AIDS in the country and the region. A committed professional, Dr Mehra along with a few others has now conceptualized the 10K club to work towards ensuring right to health of children and adolescent.

Deputy Director - Technical & Programme Support

Dr. E. Mohamed Rafique was Resource Person on HIV for the Tata Group of Companies in India. He developed the first Workplace Intervention on HIV in India, the first Workplace Policy on HIV in India and the benchmarks for Workplace Interventions on HIV in India. He has presented at more than twenty-five international conferences on HIV, STI and sexual Health. Rafique is also the author of an Interactive Web site on HIV, that aims at teaching sexual health in a fun-filled way. This site won him the MacArthur Foundation's Fellowship Award for Leadership Development in 2001. He started for the first time the Indian Business Coalition on AIDS. In 2005, he was selected by the UN Country Team as the first Resource Person and Moderator for the AIDS Community in India, working under the direct supervision of the UNAIDS Country Coordinator, facilitating and guiding this virtual but vibrant Community till it reached 4000 members. Prior to joining MAMTA, Rafique was working as the Consultant Country Team Leader for the EMPHASIS Project in CARE India. EMPHASIS is the acronym for Enhancing Mobile Populations' Access to HIV & AIDS Services in South Asia. His UN Consultancy Publications in 2010 are: 1. The Report of the NACO, WHO and UNICEF’s National Consultation to provide interventions for out-of-school youth in India.

Deputy Director - Finance

Syed Mukhtar, Chief Accountant, Bachelors in Commerce with an experience of 23 years in Accounting. Attended professional development courses on financial management and MIS.

Chief Administrator & Health Consultant

Dr B Bhardwaj, MD (PAED) is a medical professional with specialisation in Paediatrics and has served in the Indian Armed forces for more than two decades and working with MAMTA for more than 16 year.

Senior Advisors

Dr P K Goswami, M.B.B.S, with MSc. In Maternal and Child Health, UK and Diploma in Child Health(UK). He is a paediatrician by background and having acquired hands on knowledge and skill on Adolescents/ Young People health and development has been working for little more than three decades and is in the organisation for last thirteen years with keen interestto promote, women &child health and adolescents/young people's health and development.

Prof. (Dr.) Surendra Kumar Mishra, Senior Advisor is a Post-graduate in Social Sciences and Doctorate in Culture Studies has 34 years of experience in Social & Behavioral Sciences Research and Communication. He served for more than 16 years in academic institutions and 6 years in Europe as a Senior Fellow of UNESCO. For more than two decades in three continents viz. Africa, Asia and Europe, he has led a number of Civil Society initiatives in Health Research and Behavior Change Communication, funded by major national and international donors and sponsors. He has authored a few books and published more than 55 research articles in national and international journals. Till 2009 he was teaching & training the Post-graduate students of the Public Health Faculty at Jimma University, Ethiopia.

Assistant Directors

Mr. Ramesh Babu, Has almost two decades of experience of working with different national level institutions focussing on child and adolescent health and HIV. His last few years have been spent on working for trainings and building capacities around children and HIV/AIDS. At present he heads a team of around ten professionals working across the country on children and HIV/AIDS, Link Worker Scheme, TIs, Safe Motherhood and PPTCT convergence in public health system.

Vandana Nair is an experienced development practitioner. She is an M Phil in Social Work from University of Delhi. She has a rich and varied in the area of sexual and reproductive health especially HIV. Programme planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation are her core areas of work. Vandana’s experience is essentially in the Empowered Action Group states and she understands the development issues of this region very well. Her multi lingual skills along with skills of networking, partnership building and training add to the organization’s existing capabilities.

Iram Saeed, has been working in non-profit sector for more than 16 years with special focus on women’s health, reproductive and sexual health & rights, gender, adolescent health & development. She is core trainer in the organization on issues around gender, rights, sexuality. She has national and international exposure and training. She had experience on leading regional as well as national program implementation, coordination. At the senior management level she is providing critical inputs in conceptualizing and managing programs, ensure quality work, liaison, networking and, advocacy with key stakeholders at various levels. Having good hands on experiences on participatory evaluations, she is working with teams for developing monitoring and evaluation framework for enhancing program efficacy and demonstrates evidences. She is holding Master Degree in Social Work (1995) and recently attended Asia Pacific Leadership Program from EastWest Center, University of Hawaii (US).

Advisor: Programs, Evaluation and Innovations

Dr Kushal Jain is Public Health expert (MPH from Lund University, Sweden) and practicing consultant psychiatrist (MD –Psychiatry from All India Institute of Medical Sciences, India). He has over seven years of work experience Dr Jain has worked at national and international level and involved with clinical services, teaching, research, public health and development projects. He has experience of working both as technical expert along with health service provider working with clients in the field. He has conducted randomized control study published in international journal and is reviewer for international journals. Dr Jain is also guest faculty in Jamia Hamdard University. Dr Jain has worked for two years at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi before moving to Sweden for MPH on Erasmus Mundus Scholarship program. During his brief stint at World Health Organization he has contributed in development of module for resource constrained settings for delivery of mental health services. Dr Jain is an integral part of the programme planning team in MAMTA. His experience in research and evaluation is crucial for the evidence building research undertaken in the organization. Dr Jain manages the “National Training Programme on Youth Friendly Health Services in India”, a training programme for health service providers and programme mangers being implemented by MAMTA in collaboration with National Institute of Health and Family Welfare, Lund University and supported by Swedish International Development Agency (Sida). The program involves capacity development of participants from different states across the country through three week trainings that is conducted in India and Sweden. Currently, he is also manages the MacArthur Foundation supported project on “Strengthening capacities of district public health services towards improved reproductive health choices for young married couples”. The work involves leading systematic review to identify effective interventions on the topic and qualitative research to understand the contextual issues to tailor the intervention package. The research is in collaboration with Department of Child Adolescent Health, World Health Organization, Geneva.

Regional Managers

Prashant Pastore, He has done his MA and one year Mphil Coursework from Centre for Study of Regional Development, JNU and at present he is deregistered from his PhD work from JNU. He has obtained training from the University of Oregon on qualitative techniques in analysis. Mr. Prashant has worked in the field of content development and volunteer work in Himalayas before coming into NGO sector. He is been working on various issues concerning public health which includes environmental health. He has been part of various national and international groups working across the world. Mr Prashant has also participated in various UNEP negotiations as part of civil society coalition. He has been an active member of the global coalition of Health Care Without Harm and ban HG. In both environment and public health issues Mr Prashant has worked closely with the both state and central government across the country. He was part of consultation of national policy on Infection Control and Environment Plan for MOHFW under NRHM. Before joining MAMTA recently, he was part of NACO truckers TSG as a Regional Manager for the North Indian States. Mr. Prashant has published and presented various papers at both national and international level important being on Hospital Sanitation at SACOSAN-III at Vigyan Bhawan in 2008 and peer publication in Current Science Journal.

Archana Sarkar: PhD in Anthropology from Delhi University. She has more than 10 years of experience in research and programs on public health, nutrition, growth, maternal, child and neonatal health and TB/HIV. She has been involved in large randomized controlled trials in collaboration with Johns Hopkins University in different developing country settings like India, Bangladesh and Africa. She is involved in proposal development, form designing, implementation and training, analysis and manuscript writing. She has several publications in peer reviewed journal and has presented papers in international conferences.

Murai Chandra, M-Phil, PGDMA in Export Management, Experience in implementation of development programmes with special emphasis on women empowerment and gender. Experience in imparting gender sensitization and mainstreaming trainings. Total experience of 8+ years. 

Dr. Mahasweta Satpati holds a M. Phil (CW) and Ph.D. degree in Social & Population Geography from North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong. She is competent professional in Research & Development over 7 years of progressive experience in the field of Population and Social Science Research using various Statistical & GIS software. She has a special ability in the area of Geographical Information System, particularly in mapping and has received training in Remote Sensing, GIS and GPS (Global Positioning System). She has expertise on Research and well versed in handling both qualitative and quantitative data, analysis and report writing. She has successfully executed research projects at CEHAT, ICRW and FPAI. She has working experience on Project Management, Monitoring and Evaluation.

Rajesh Padhy, Graduate in Computer Applications, he has more than 14 years of working experience in the filed of Information Technology (IT), with specialisation in developing and analysing programmes, Managing and maintaining the online  Servers. Has sound knowledge in computer hardware & networking especially LAN to WAN & Website developing. Also providing IT related technical support & trainings.

Ms. Priyanka, B.Sc, PG Diploma in PR and Advertising, she has 8+ years of experience in development communications with focus area being IEC, Advocacy and Social Mobilisation. Have been associated with programmes and campaigns on Immunisation, Family Planning, Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health. The organisational communication comprise documentation, publication of annual report, newsletter, corporate brochure, magazines etc.

Faiyaz Akhtar, Master of Social Work from Aligarh Muslim University, India (1997) and MSc. in (Applied Anthropology) from Oregon State University, USA (2005) has 10 years of experience in implementing and development projects in various parts of the country. Young People’s Sexual and Reproductive Health (YS-RHR), HIV and AIDS and other issues focusing development of Young People in India are the core areas of his works. Mr. Akhtar is recipient of prestigious Tom Hogg Award, given to international Scholars by Oregon State University in the year 2005.

Sanket Vetam, postgraduate in Social Work from Mumbai University, registered with General Social Care Council - UK as Qualified Social Worker. He has more than ten years of experience in the non-profit development sector with National & International Organization, especially in the areas of Community Development, Disaster Management (relief and rehabilitation) and HIV/AIDS. He has expertise in Project Planning - Management, Monitoring & Evaluation, Networking, Training, Report and Documentation.

Sanjay Choudhary, B.Com, CA (INTER),3 Years Articleship Training & 3 Year worked as Audit representative Guliani & Company (Chartered Accountants)Joined at Mamta in Dec. 1997 as Programm officer (Finance & Administration) now working as Sr. Programme Manager (Finance & Administration) from Oct. 2004 and has total experience of more than 15 years.

State Programme Managers

Anjana Matta,  Masters in Social Work, diploma in Guidance and counselling and B.Ed. Has been working since last 20 years in areas of counselling, training, community development and project management with women, children young people and service providers on issues of Reproductive child health, integrated development, domestic violence, young people reproductive and sexual health, community mobilization, refugees welfare etc. have worked with UNHCR project for more than 5 years and has been working in MAMTA more than 9 years.

Program Managers

Ratna Gaikwad, Masters in Philosophy, with specialisation in Rural and Tribal development, she has been working in developmental sector from last seven years. Working as a Programme Manager with MAMTA since four years. Area of her interest is training and facilitated various training programmes organized for Peer Educators, NGOs Coordinators& staff, and para medical staff Asha Sahyoginis' on issues related to reproductive health, gender, life skill education early marriage and early pregnancy and communication.

Kundan Singh Adhikari, Graduate in Commerce from Agra University, Kundan has worked in Corporate and NGO Sector and has an experience of more than 14 years. He joined Mamta in June 2007 in the capacity of Senior Programme Officer (Finance) today he is a Programme Manager (Finance) from May 2009.

Ankur Shrivastava, Master in Computer Application. He has more than 4 years of experience. He brings in an experience of Software Development in core software industry to social development sector in developing, maintaining and strengthening computer based online CMIS / HMIS systems and reporting and development of change related to the project. He has Responsible for CMIS Development Error Handlings, Project tracking and Issue Resolution.

Sanjay Kumar Chaubey - Graduate with Post Graduate diploma in Computer Application. He accumulated 14 years of diversitified work experience. His current assignments include data analysis (Excel and Access ) data collations maintenance of database (Excel and Access), Page design and layout and map digitize in GIS . He expertise in varnmala (stenography), page settings and web designing in the national language.

Neelima Narang is a Post Graduate in Human Rights with specialization in Women and Child Rights and is currently pursuing MBA with specialization in Operations management. Prior to this assignment she has worked for eleven years with different Diplomatic Missions as a Secretary (Closely with High Commissioners offices) in New Delhi, and three years’ work experience in private sector in different capacity.

Amitesh Sombanshi, Has hold the degree of MBA (Marketing HR), having experience of around 4 years in this field.

Neha Khara, Post graduate in Public Health and Nutrition from Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Gujarat. Public Health Nutritionist with over 3 years of experience in core area of Maternal and Child Nutrition. Key technical expertise includes Prevention and Reduction of Malnutrition in children, Micronutrient interventions, Infant and Young Child Feeding and Emergency Nutrition. She worked with UNICEF (Madhya Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh) as a Nutrition Consultant. At present, she is working with MAMTA on MacArthur Foundation supported project.

Saradiya Mukherjee, Mphil in population studies from CSRD, JNU and submitted her dissertation on Household expenditure on maternal health care: level, determinants and consequences. Her areas of interest are lies in Public Health and Development. She has attended national and international conferences and has published paper with Macmillan. She is well versed in statistical software’s like SPSS, STATA, and ARC-GIS. Presently she is working with MAMTA on Link Worker and MacArthur projects.

Program Officers

Ms. Shubhangini Pandey, Masters in Public Health with specialization in Public Health Management from SRM University, TamilNadu, has an experience of working for the need of health & life skill education program for adolescents in Gujarat during her two months research study period and internship period at IIM- Ahmedabad.At present she is working on the projects of MCH & Adolescent Health issues in MAMTA, to upgrade her expertise in these specific public health concerns.

Ms. Afreen Asrar, MBA with specialization in Health Management from Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi and is currently pursuing PGDCA (Computer Application) from DOEACC. Through her internship program with Voluntary Health Association of India (VHAI) she got an exposure of working with a project on evaluation of HIV control programs in different states of India. Afreen has a training in Project Planning and Implementation on various public health issues as part of her Curriculum. Presently she is working on Project for Improving sexual and reproductive health of young people by increasing the age at marriage in India, Nepal and Bangladesh supported by European Union.