Dr. Rajani Ved – Primary Health Care Reforms in India

“Primary Health Care Reforms in India”

Join us for a seminar featuring Dr. Rajani Ved, Director of Health at the India Office of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Moderated Dr. Winnie Yip, Professor of Global Health Policy and Economics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Biography

Dr. Rajani Ved is Director, Health at the India Office of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. In this role, she is responsible for developing and executing the strategy to support the foundation’s health goals in India. She is a public health physician, technical advisor and implementation specialist with nearly 30 years of experience working on community-based health services delivery, health systems strengthening and in scaling up. Her areas of expertise include the design and evaluation of large-scale health policy and programs, implementation research, and scaling up, particularly in maternal, reproductive and child health, primary health care, community health workers and civil society action.  She has worked with national and state governments, research institutions, aid agencies and grassroots community organizations. At the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Dr. Ved is a Lown Scholar.

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