Prof. K. Srinath Reddy
President, Public Health Foundation of India

Email: ksrinath.reddy@phfi.org

Prof. K. Srinath Reddy is presently President, Public Health Foundation of India and till recently headed the Department of Cardiology at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). Having trained in cardiology and epidemiology, he is presently regarded as a global leader in preventive cardiology and a thought leader in global public health.

He edited the National Medical Journal of India for 10 years and is on editorial board of several international and national journals. He has more than 250 scientific publications in international and Indian peer reviewed-journals. He has recently been appointed as the First Bernard Lown Professor of Cardiovascular Health at the Harvard School of Public Health and is also an Adjunct Professor of the Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University.

Prof. Reddy has been involved in several major international and national research studies including the INTERSALT global study of blood pressure and electrolytes, INTERHEART global study on risk factors of myocardial infarction, national collaborative studies on epidemiology of coronary heart disease and community control of rheumatic heart disease. Widely regarded as a leader of preventive cardiology at national and international levels, Prof. Reddy has been a researcher, teacher, policy enabler, advocate and activist who has worked to promote cardiovascular health, tobacco control, chronic disease prevention and healthy living across the lifespan. He established school based heath promotion and youth led health advocacy programmes through HRIDAY, with active engagement of school and college students across India. He set up worksite based programmes for health promotion and cardiovascular risk reduction in industries in several regions of India. All of these programmes have been rigorously evaluated, widely published and progressively scaled up.

Prof. Reddy has worked with, in many leadership / board / committee / advisory / consultancy positions, with several governmental agencies, National Human Rights Commission, research bodies and NGO networks in India as well as WHO, World Heart Federation, World Bank, Institute of Medicine (USA), CDC, NIH, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Global Forum for Health Research, Initiative for Cardiovascular Health in Developing Countries, Wellcome Trust and the World Economic Forum. He represented India at the international negotiations on the Framework Convention for Tobacco Control.

He is Chair of the Initiative for Cardiovascular Health Research in the Developing Countries (IC Health), a global partnership programme which promotes research for prevention of cardiovascular diseases in developing countries. He has served on many WHO expert panels and chairs the Foundations Advisory Board of the World Heart Federation. He is co-chair of the World Economic Forum's Global Advisory Council on Chronic Diseases and a member of the Forum's Global Health Board. He also chairs the Core Advisory Group on Health and Human Rights for the National Human Rights Commission of India.

His contributions to public health have been recognized through several awards and honours. They include: WHO Director General's Award for Outstanding Global Leadership in Tobacco Control (World Health Assembly, 2003), Padma Bhushan (Presidential Honour, India, 2005), Queen Elizabeth Medal (Royal Society for Health Promotion, UK, 2005), Luther Terry Medal for Leadership in Tobacco Control (American Cancer Society, 2009), Membership of the US National Academies (Institute of Medicine, 2005), Fellowship of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (2009), Fellowship of the Faculty of Public Health, UK (2009), Cutter Lecture (Harvard, 2006), Koplan Lecture (CDC, 2008), Gopalan Oration (2009) and Paul Dudley White Lecture (American Heart Association, 2010).

Prof. Reddy has also won literary awards including the ECAAR Global Peace Essay contest (adjudged by 11 Nobel Laureates in 1992) and the Times of India Essay Contest on Human Rights. He was a prize winning debater and quizzer at University level and now writes on health related issues for national news papers such as The Hindu, Indian Express, Economic Times and the Financial Express.

Mr. K. Suresh Kumar
Senior Director - Operations

Email: kskumar@phfi.org

Mr. K Suresh Kumar is an electronics engineer and a management graduate from IIM. Prior to joining PHFI, he was National Head of corporate strategy and COO for Andhra Pradesh (AP) operations at EMRI, a nonprofit organization and a PPP in emergency management. He was actively involved in introducing budgetary control, starting innovation and benchmarking practices, and developing matrices for monitoring performance of various functions. Besides he was in charge of 108 ambulance operations in AP having a fleet of 750 ambulances across the state.

Before starting his stint in nonprofit organization in health care, he had extensive experience in corporate sector, working for companies like Cisco, Arvind Mills, Dynavision and Ballarpur Industries in various capacities in India as well as abroad. During his career, he has worked in different industry verticals like ITES, office automation, consumer electronics, paper and readymade apparel.

Mr. Suresh Kumar has completed his B Sc. Hons from Delhi University, B.E. from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and Post graduation in management from IIM Ahmadabad.

Dr. Sanjay Zodpey
Director - Public Health Education, PHFI
Director - Indian Institute of Public Health, Delhi

Email: sanjay.zodpey@phfi.org

Areas of Interest: Clinical epidemiology, evidence-based health care, health policy, health systems research, program evaluation and public health governance

Prof. Sanjay P. Zodpey presently works as Director, Public Health Education, Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), New Delhi and also holds leadership role as Director at Indian Institute of Public Health, Delhi. He also served as Director of Indian Institute of Public Health, Gandhinagar. He earlier worked as Vice Dean at Government Medical College, Nagpur.

He is a Medical Scientist, Public Health Specialist, and Epidemiologist. Prof. Zodpey completed all his medical education - MBBS, MD and PhD (Preventive and Social Medicine) from Government Medical College, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India. He has also acquired post-graduate qualifications in Sociology, Public Administration and Economics from Nagpur University. He has been awarded Fellowship of Indian Public Health Association (IPHA) and Indian Association of Preventive and Social Medicine (IAPSM). He has been active member of INCLEN network for last 14 years and participated in various INCLEN initiatives including IndiaCLEN Program Evaluation Network.

Prof. Zodpey has been involved in several major international and national research initiatives that have contributed significantly to the field of public health. He has vast experience of research collaboration and partnership with national and international agencies, development partners, governments and contract research organizations. He has been investigator for more than 40 research projects supported by various donor agencies and development partners.

Prof. Zodpey has to his credit over 140 scientific publications in reputed national and international journals. He has been faculty for over 130 workshops dealing with various aspects of research methods, epidemiology and public health. He is a member of various technical task forces and academic committees constituted by Universities and State and Central Government.

Dr. Subhadra Menon
Head - Health Communication and Advocacy

Email: subhadra.menon@phfi.org

Areas of Interest: Health communication and advocacy, with a special focus on health systems strengthening, health policy and advocacy

A Ph.D. in Reproductive Biology from the University of Delhi, Dr Menon is a health communication and advocacy expert who has worked in the health field in India for over two decades and in diverse capacities covering professional and community activist experiences.

She taught under-graduate science at the same university for four years before progressing to health and science journalism in India. She was Principal Correspondent (Health, Science and Environment) for India Today magazine, covering health, science and environment news. Subhadra is an award-winning and prolific writer with more than 400 articles and features published in Indian and international newspapers and magazines. Her critically acclaimed book on urban India's public health scenario, 'No Place to Go: Stories of Hope and Despair from India's Ailing Health Sector' (Penguin Books) was short-listed for the New India Foundation Prize.

Dr. Menon has worked over the years to increasingly focus on the improvement of public health in India through health communication and advocacy, consensus and capacity building, policy analysis, research and writing.

Prior to joining PHFI, she was Project Director for the Essential Advocacy Project (EAP) at Constella Futures, a technical, advocacy capacity building partner of Avahan - the India AIDS Initiative of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The EAP worked on supporting and enhancing HIV/AIDS advocacy efforts to create a strengthened enabling environment for vulnerable populations to claim their rights.Previously, she was with the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative and part of a leadership team that helped launch India's first AIDS vaccine trial.

Dr. S. K. Satpathy
Director- Training

Email: satpathy@phfi.org

Areas of Interest: Community Medicine and Epidemiology, Programme Planning and Management (HIV/AIDS, TB, Malaria, Reproductive And Child Health, Disease Surveillance And Control Of Disease Outbreaks, Health Infrastructure And Health Manpower.

Dr. Satpathy is an epidemiologist by training. After obtaining a doctorate degree in Preventive and Social Medicine from Banaras Hindu University, he obtained an MSc in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London. He further pursued specialized training in Family Planning/Reproductive and Child Health (RCH) programmes in (Sri Lanka, Indonesia), gender and health (South Africa), malaria and other tropical diseases (Thailand), the Expanded Programme of Immunization (WHO HQ), chronic respiratory diseases (London) and surveillance and rapid response in avian influenza(WHO). Concurrently, he also holds experience in teaching technology for medical teachers in India.

Dr. Satpathy brings with him 22 years of teaching experience and 12 years of expertise as a Health Programme Manager at national, regional and state levels. He has worked with the Government of India and international donor agency DANIDA, and he has also taught at Ahmedu Bello University Zaria, Nigeria.

Ms. Kalpana Swamy
Senior Administrator- Academic Affairs

Email: kalpana.swamy@phfi.org

Ms. Swamy comes with over two decades of rich and diverse experience in government departments and premier institutions reflecting career growth through increasing levels of multifunctional responsibility. Previously, Ms. Swamy was Director at the National Institute of Fashion Technology, New Delhi and responsible for strategic management functions and overall administration of the eight centres located in major cities across country. Her key performance areas include institution building, policy and planning, systems and resource management, academic administration and strengthening of linkages through extensive networking with the Central & State Governments, academic institutions, industry and other agencies for strengthening ongoing initiatives, as well as exploring new ones.

At PHFI, Ms. Swamy is responsible for the administration, development, conduct and evaluation of all academic courses run by PHFI and its affiliated Indian Institutes of Public Health in association with senior personnel at PHFI and Directors of the IIPHs.