PHFI

Assistant Professor

Veena worked as Medical Officer, Urban Health Centre, Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation for more than ten years and has hands-on experience in implementing all National Health Programmes. She served as Junior Assistant Medical Officer at Lok Manya Tilak Medical College and Hospital, Sion, Mumbai for three years. Veena has also volunteered with the United Nations as Medical Doctor at Accident and Emergency Services, Rio Claro Health Centre, Trinidad, for more than a year.

She consulted for a UNDP study “Enquiry into the Physical Standards of Health available in the Private Sector in Rural Maharashtra”, conducted by the Centre for Enquiry into Health and Allied Themes (CEHAT), Mumbai, which resulted in a document titled 'Standards for private hospitals and nursing homes having a capacity of 15 to 30 beds'.
She put together a background paper and conducted discussions under the aegis of PRIA (Society for Participatory Research in Asia), Delhi, which led to the publication of a book 'Evaluation of Impairments and Disabilities; Bhalani Publishing House, Mumbai in 2005.   

Areas of Interest:

Teaching courses on Disease Surveillance, Urban Health and Maternal and Child Health management.