Support for Advocacy and Training to Health Initiative
Action Research Center of Anusandhan trust
Support for Advocacy and Training to Health Initiative
Action Research Center of Anusandhan trust
dhananjay.kakade@sathicehat.org
Dr. Dhananjay Kakade has 18 years of professional experience at the global and the national level in the development sector. He has worked as a trainer, researcher, campaigner, organiser, manager and grant-maker, focusing on social accountability, governance, and human rights.
Dr. Dhananjay has worked with civil society organisations and funding agencies to safeguard human rights and promote people’s participation in health decision-making. From 2004 to 2012, he worked with SATHI- CEHAT- Pune as a Senior Program Officer and Associate Coordinator and worked with Oxfam India as a Health Coordinator from 2013 to 2014. He has worked in the Public Health Program of the Open Society Foundations, New York, from 2015 to 2018. Before joining Open Society Foundations, he served as the Executive Director of the National Center for Advocacy Studies in India from 2014 to 2015. In his last assignment, he has worked with the Asia Pacific Regional Office (South Asia) of Open Society Foundations and was based in London.
Sharda Mahalle is a graduate in science. She has been associated with SATHI since last twenty years. She is centrally involved in the execution of the project activities including data entry, IEC material, Awareness material, tool development, transcription etc.
Shweta Marathe is a Health Systems researcher with an academic background in hospital and healthcare management. With a decade-long experience in SATHI, she is keen to undertake action-oriented research that actively supports advocacy efforts for a better health system. She had been a KEYSTONE fellow under the Alliance for Health Policy and System Research program. Her research interests focus on the functioning of the public health system and transformations in the private healthcare sector. Her recent research work includes collaborative research projects with King’s College, London and the Accountability Research Centre, American University. Currently, she is a fellow of the India-HPSR fellowship cohort 2022.
Hemraj Patil has a degree of Masters in social work (Community development) and 13 years’ experience working in the public health sector. For the last 9 years he has been working with SATHI, on Community-based Monitoring and planning of Health Services and Decentralized Health Planning. Currently he coordinates with rural organizations in 17 districts, for public participation in health services, right to health and social audit. He has vast experience in liasoning with state level administrations, departments and officials.
Bhausaheb Aher is a post-graduate in social work from Karve Institute of Social Services, Pune University. He has twenty-two years of experience in the development field. For the past 10 years, as part of his work in SATHI, he has been centrally involved in district and state-level training on Health Rights and the Right to Health Care, Community action for nutrition and the social audit process of multi-sectorial services in Maharashtra. He has also written articles in the Marathi language in different newspapers and magazines on the above issues. He anchors the Media and ICT programme, preparing video documentary on various topics/themes for the organization and designing of tools, reports, posters, Sticker, Calendar, booklet and other types of training and advocacy materials for the project.
Shakuntala has been with SATHI for 14 years. Starting with training initiatives for ASHA workers in rural and tribal areas, she engaged in various advocacy activities in collaboration with civil society organisations. Her work in SATHI helped her understand health rights and advocacy, and her experience on the ground sharpened her interventions. In addition to working for the public health system, she has also been involved in advocacy efforts for the accountability of the private sector. Currently, she coordinates the SATHI’s work on Patient rights initiative to ensure health services reach the poor patients and their health rights are protected.
Trupti Malti is a post-graduate in Sociology from Pune University, with twenty years of experience in the development field. She has been associated with SATHI since last twelve years, and is presently working as program in-charge for public health program. She has good managerial as well as analytical skills, which have enabled her in the execution of project activities including developing strategies, questionnaires and analysing data as per requirements of the projects. She has played a key role in training component of the projects as well as developing the resource materials. She is involved in health budget analysis and multi sectoral social audits process in Maharashtra. She has written articles on various issues related to health rights and health budgets in the local media.
Dr. Abhay Shukla, is Senior Programme Coordinator in SATHI and has been with SATHI right from its inception in 1998. He is a public health physician with postgraduation degrees from AIIMS, New Delhi and has been actively engaged in health rights work since last three decades. He has guided multiple action and research projects since its conceptualisation to analytical writing. He has been the principal investigator for various research projects. He has been persistently contributing to wide canvas of public health areas like strengthening of public health system, community nutrition, social regulation of the private healthcare sector and Universal Health Care. He is member of various networks including National Co-Convener, Jan Swasthya Abhiyan (People’s Health Movement – India), Global Steering Committee, Community of Practitioners on Accountability and Social Action in Health (COPASAH) and Alliance of Doctors for Ethical Healthcare (ADEH). He also serves as a member on government committees including National Health Mission – Advisory Group for Community Action (AGCA), Core group on Health, National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) and State Mentoring Committee, National Health Mission, Maharashtra. Along with authoring scientific papers, books and reports, he also writes prolifically on issues of public health and accountability for mainstream media.
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Prof. Vibhuti Patel superannuated from TISS, Mumbai on 30-6-2020. Prof. Vibhuti Patel worked at Advanced Centre for Women’s Studies, School of Development Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences from 1-7-2017 to 30-6-2020 after her superannuation from SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai on 30-6-2017. Currently she is Vice-President of Indian Association for Women’s Studies and Expert Committee member of School of Gender and Development Studies, IGNOU, Delhi.
Prof. Vibhuti Patel is Ph.D. in Economics, University of Mumbai. She was awarded a Visiting Fellowship to the London School of Economics and Political Science from the Association of Commonwealth Universities, UK in 1992-93.She has authored and co-authored 12 books; edited and co-edited 9 books and contributed over 100 papers as chapters in various books edited by others. She has also authored and co-authored 34 research monographs and reports. Her research papers, comments, commentaries, and reviews have been published in the national as well as international academic journals.She had prepared a base paper on “Gender” for Mumbai Human Development Report (2010), Maharashtra Human Development Report (2012) and MMRDA Human Development Report (2012) for Government of Maharashtra. She contributed 3 chapters for an Expert Committee Report on Socioeconomic Status of Muslims in Maharashtra for Maharashtra State Minority Commission, Government of Maharashtra, 2013. As an Expert Committee member of the Working Group on Discrimination against Women and Girls of United Nations Human Rights Council, she contributed to prepare a Report on Women’s Human Rights in Changing World of Work, 2020.
Dhruv Mankad Graduate in medicine. A leading spokesperson on Primary Health Care in Maharashtra. He was Director of VACHAN, a Nashik based NGO, for ten years. He rejoined the same organization as Honorary Director, after a break for MacArthur Fellowship. He has worked in the as Senior Consultant with the School of Health Science, Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University, as well as with national and international organizations like BAIF, Tata Trusts, Actionaid, UNFPA, SEWA Bharat, EU, The Habitat Trust in the past. Currently, he is Secretary, VACHAN’s board and a consultant with HCL Foundation, NOIDA.
Director, Centre of Women’s Studies Centre, Vice Principal (retd.) ILS Law College, Pune
Dr. Jaya Sagade: Retired as Director of Women’s Studies Centre and Vice-Principal at ILS Law College, Pune, where she taught Women and the Law; and Family Law; Human Rights for 32 years. Her areas of research are gender equality, women’s human rights, violence against women, right to reproductive health. She has a range of publications in these areas. Oxford University Press has published her book on Child Marriage in India and Routledge has published Women’s Human Rights in India. She has worked extensively with national and international academic institutions, UN agencies such as WHO; Government of India and Maharashtra and with NGOs.
Director, Centre of Women’s Studies Centre, Vice Principal (retd.) ILS Law College, Pune
In spite of being a medical doctor Dr. Mohan Deshpande has been working in the field of health!
He gave up his clinical work in 1993 and began a unique work which he fondly call Health Communication, a vastly different concept and practice from that of popular health education. It’s a rights based work, rooted in people’s culture of communication, now spread across the country in various states in rural, tribal, semiurban and urban areas.
He has a group of likeminded people called Aarogya Bhan Collective or simply AaBha. They aim at developing a culture of health communication. AaBha has been able to reach out to about more than 30,000 people through its various activities and training workshops. He is a health communicator for about 27 years.
He has worked with school children, teachers, college going youth, ASHAs, Anganwadis, rural health workers, ashram schools, sex workers, NGOs, govt agencies , various health service providers including doctors.
He is associated with 67 organizations through this work.
He is a painter, music composer, writer, poet and a singer too.
He is a recipient of some awards like the US based Maharashtra Foundation Award for Social Work, 2004.
Padma Prakash : Doctorate in Sociology, Specialistion in sociology of medicine and health, sociology of sports, academic journalist, women’s rights and health activist, is Editor/Director, eSocialSciences, an Asia focused repository and publication space, a unit of IRIS Knowledge Foundation. She was formerly Acting Editor/Associate Editor, Economic and Political Weekly.
Padmini Swaminathan is a former Director of the Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai, where she also held the post of the Reserve Bank of India Chair in Regional Economics till her retirement from the Institute in 2011. After retirement, she was invited to join the faculty of the newly opened Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad where she became Professor and Chairperson of the School of Livelihoods and Development and held the post till May 2017. From June 2017 to February 2019, she was Visiting Professor at the Council for Social Development, Hyderabad.
Swaminathan’s research work covers the areas of industrial organization, labour, occupational health and skill development – all from a gender perspective. Her recent publications include: (co-edited) Volumes on Telangana Social Development Report 2017; Telangana: Gender, Access and Well-being 2018; a co-authored book on Feminist Methodologies: Interdisciplinary Explorations published by Routledge in 2017; an edited volume on Women and Work published by Orient BlackSwan in 2012, among others.
She is currently on the editorial boards of several journals including Gender Technology and Development, and the Indian Journal of Gender Studies. She is also a Board member of several institutions such as the Institute for Studies in Industrial Development, New Delhi; SAMA-Resource Centre for Women, New Delhi; Anusandhan Trust, Mumbai. Periodically her services have also been requisitioned by the state: such as the High Court of Madras, the erstwhile Planning Commission and the Government of Kerala.