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.

Director (Programmes)

Anjali Sakhuja, Masters degree in Social Work. Population Leadership Fellow from University of Washington, Seattle. Certificate Course in International Health - University of Washington, Seattle. and trained in Human Resources Development. Vast experience in the development sector, she has effectively performed various responsibilities starting from directly working with the community to planning programs for community development. She has demonstrated competency in assessment of health progamme and system, proposal development, conceptualizing and managing programmes, facilitating capacity building, networking, advocacy with key stakeholders, developing M&E framework and financial management. 

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 more than 14 year.

Senior Advisor

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.

Deputy Director

Dr. Deepti Agrawal

Medical Specialist (MBBS, MD) with postgraduate degree in Paediatrics & Neonatology. She has experience of working in paediatric and neonatal intensive care units in tertiary health care settings for some years before joining the development sector. Has worked on different aspects of Adolescent Health and development with special focus on SRH & HIV in last 8 years.

Assistant Directors

 Dr. Deepti Agrawal

Medical Specialist (MBBS, MD) with postgraduate degree in Paediatrics & Neonatology. She has experience of working in paediatric and neonatal intensive care units in tertiary health care settings for some years before joining the development sector. Has worked on different aspects of Adolescent Health and development with special focus on SRH & HIV in last 8 years.

Syed Mukhtar

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

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.

Dr. Subha Sankar Das

He holds a Doctorate in Physical Anthropology from Delhi University. He has 10+ years of experience in the field of community development in rural as well as urban areas. He has been involved with various projects focusing youth and adolescents including RCH, HIV/AIDS, gender, rights, masculinity, reproductive health, sexuality education, adolescent friendly health services. Designing research based projects and intervention are his forte.

Regional Managers

Iram Saeed

Having Post Graduate degree in Social Work with specilization in Social Welfare has been working in developemntal sector for more than 12 years. She has been associated with MAMTA since 1996 and involved in conceptualizing and managing programmes, conducting training workshops, liaisoning and Networking and advocacy mainly on the issues of Women’s Empowerment, Adolescent Health and Development, Reproductive Health, Sexuality, HIV/AIDS, Gender and Rights.

Dr. Arti Sharma, MBBS ,MD (Paediatrics)has more than 5 years of  experience of managing Paediatric and noenatal OPDs and emergencies .Worked at Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital from 2004-2007 as Senior Resident in Paediatrics.  Currently  assocaited  with various maternal and child health projects,has sound managerial skills besides the ability to liaison, and work effectively with diverse institutions and individuals.

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.

Senior Programme Managers

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.

Rajesh Padhy, Graduate in Computer Applications, he has more than 12 years of working experience in the filed of Information Technology (IT), with specialisation in developing and analysing programmes, Managing and maintaining the online  Servers including Exchange server. Has sound knowledge in computer hardware & networks, especially LAN to WAN & Web developing. Also providing IT related technical support & training.

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.

Ms. Anjana Matta,  Masters in Social Work, diploma in Guidance and counseling and B.ED. Has been working since last 16 years in areas of counseling, 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, refuges welfare etc. have worked with UNHCR project for more than 5 years and has been working in MAMTA since last 5 years.

Mr. 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.

Mr. 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.

Program Managers

Ms. 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.

Ms. Geetha Nambiar, Masters in Mathematics and Bachelors in Library with specialisation in library and Information Science.

Mr. Kailash Lakhara, Master in Population Studies with specialization in Urban and Regional Planning & Master in Geography with specialization in M.A. Dissertation, Data handling with large scale demographic and health survey from last 5 years. Worked in District Level Household Survey on Reproductive and Child Health, 2002-04 at IIPS, Mumbai. Total 6+ years of experience.

Devesh K. Sahu, Doctorate in Social Anthropology from G.G. University, Bilaspur. He has worked in the field of community development for more than 6 years mainly focusing on reproductive and child health, HIV and AIDS, migration, gender, youth reproductive and sexual health. His key competency includes conducting ethnographic field studies in tribal as well as rural areas, management of large scale survey like DLHS-RCH and designing, managing and evaluation of community based intervention research projects through participatory approaches.

Ms. Rahat Bahl has professional degree in Public Nutrition (Masters in Home Science) from University of Delhi. During her 3 years of work experience in development sector she was involved in planning, monitoring and evaluation of the project, community mobilisation, documentation and conducting nutrition education sessions and coordinating the activities of National level Network, advocating the rights of Young people.

Ms. Chhaya Singh, B. Sc. Honors in Botany, Master in Library and Information Science, More than 5 years working experiences of Knowledge & Information Management with most renowned and completely automated libraries in Delhi.

Pankaj Sharma, Has holds the degree of MPH (Program Design & Management) and MBA (Human Resource Management, having experience of over 5 years in intervening health programmes in India, including planning, monitoring, MIS, evaluation. The key subjects of experience are Reproductive & Sexual Health, Maternal and New born Health, HIV-AIDS, Early Marriage and Early Pregnancy.

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