Governing Board | Institute of Public Health Bengaluru

Governance and Management

Institute of Public Health (IPH) Bengaluru is a registered society under the Karnataka Societies registration Act, 1960 (Registration Number BLU-S580-2005-06). IPH is governed by a Governing Board elected by the IPH Society members. IPH is managed by IPH Management Committee composed of Director, Assistant Directors (Research; Education; Administration; Public & Policy Engagement) and an elected Staff Representative.

 

IPH Governing Board Members

Arvind Kasturi

Arvind Kasturi

President

He is a medical doctor with a DNB and MD in Community Medicine. Currently, he is a professor of Community medicine at St. John’s Medical College, Bangalore. His expertise lies in the training and supervision of doctors/ community medicine postgraduates. He has published in several reputed journals from his ongoing work in public health.

Suja Warriar

Suja Warriar

Secretary

Suja, is a post graduate with diploma in management from Symbiosis, Pune. She has 27 years of experience in Infosys Limited with exposure to Corporate social responsibility, Sustainability reporting and Diversity Equity and Inclusion. She is currently working with Wequity, a women in technology start up as Director Academia . She is also CSR strategist ,DNV auditor and social auditor from Social Audit Network. She had taken sabbatical for 2 years to work with the ant , tribal community in Bodoland near Indo Bhutan boarder in the state of Assam. She also worked on the ground level for relief and rehabilitation for Tsunami in Nagapattinam, Flood in Uttarakhand and Violence in Bodoland. she leads campus to career programs at CII IWN Southern Region,leading Gender Partity pillar of CII IWN Karnataka.

N Devadasan

N Devadasan

Treasurer

He is a medical doctor with a PhD in public health. He was the founding director of the Institute of Public Health, Bengaluru and served as. a Director till June 2019. He has been involved in an advisory capacity to state and central government’s health ministries for public health issues.

T K Sundari Ravindran

T K Sundari Ravindran

Member

She holds a Ph.D. in Applied Economics and served for twenty years as Professor of Public Health in the Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences, and Technology, Trivandrum. She is a Principal Visiting Fellow at the United Nations University – International Institute for Global Health, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She is a founder-member of Rural Women’s Social Education Centre (RUWSEC) and has been involved in its activities in various capacities since its inception in 1981.

Pranay Lal

Pranay Lal

Member

He is a biochemist by training and has worked in the field of environment and public health. He has worked towards research on preventive HIV vaccines, tuberculosis control, and tobacco control at the national and sub-national level. He writes on Natural History.

Anindya Sinha

Anindya Sinha

Member

He has a master’s degree in botany, a doctorate in molecular biology, and is based at the National Institute of Advanced Studies in Bangalore, India, and is an adjunct faculty at nine other institutions in India and the UK.
His wide-ranging research interests are in the areas of behavioral ecology and cognitive psychology of primates, animal molecular genetics, evolutionary biology, conservation biology, and the philosophy of biology.

 

IPH Society Members

Namerta Sharma

Namerta Sharma

She is an economist having done her M. Phil in applied economics. She has been working in the field of development and cooperation for the past 25 years. As part of her role, she works closely with the government on development initiatives to ensure their scalability and sustainability of development projects.

Stan Thekaekara

Stan Thekaekara

He is trained as a sociologist, with extensive experience for over 30 years in the NGO sector. He is an activist, thinker, and social entrepreneur, He is a visiting professor at many Universities and has written extensively on development issues, and has delivered numerous lectures on these topics.

V R Diwakar

V R Diwakar

He is a retired Bank Manager, at State Bank of Mysore. He has extensive expertise in financial management and accounting.

V Selvaraju

V Selvaraju

He is an economist by profession with experience in research as well as development organizations. He is a freelance consultant working in the area of health care financing.

Nirmala Murthy

Nirmala Murthy

She has a Master’s degree in statistics from Bombay University, and a doctorate from the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA. She was the faculty of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, doing research and training in the area of public health management. She is also an honorary president of the Foundation for Research in Health System. She is a specialist in Health Information Systems, Monitoring & Evaluation and is a member at the IPH General Body.

Vasanthi Srinivasan

Vasanthi Srinivasan

She is a professor in the Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management Area at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. She is a Chairperson, Digital Learning at IIM Bangalore, and a Past President and Fellow of the Indian Academy of Management.

Vishal Rao U.S

Vishal Rao U.S

Dr.Vishal Rao is presently the Chief of Head & Neck Surgical oncology & Robotic surgery at HCG Cancer Centre, Bangalore. He completed his post-graduation in otorhinolaryngology & fellowship in Head & Neck oncology surgery. He has been conferred the Honorary FRCS from Royal College of Surgeons in Glasgow. He has also received Judy Wilkenfield award for Global Excellence in tobacco control and has been a recipient of multiple state level awards including the Kempegowda award. He also serves as editor of journal of precision oncology and has over 100 national & international publications to his credit. Dr. Vishal is an international advisor to World Health Organization Tobacco Free initiatives and is a visiting faculty of John Hopkins University leadership programs.

Dipika Jain

Dipika Jain

Dipika Jain is Professor of Law, Vice Dean (Research), Vice Dean (Clinical Legal Education) and the Director of the Centre for Justice, Law and Society at Jindal Global Law School (JGLS), India since 2009. She was a visiting faculty at Transnational Law Institute at Kings College London from 2017-2021 and visiting scholar at various Institutions including University of Oxford, Melbourne, Max Plank among others.

 

IPH Management Committee

Prashanth N S
(Director)

Pragati B Hebbar
Assistant Director (Research)

Chandrashekar Kottagi
Assistant Director (Outreach)

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Gajalakshmi S
Assistant Director (Administration)

Tanya Seshadri
Assistant Director (Education)

Angel Sudha
Staff Representative

 

Past Governing Board Members

S Manoharan

S Manoharan

President

Namerta Sharma

Namerta Sharma

President

Stan Thekaekara

Stan Thekaekara

Secretary

V.R. Diwakar

V.R. Diwakar

Treasurer

Dr. Roopa Devadasan

Dr. Roopa Devadasan

Anagha Khot

Anagha Khot

Sunil Nandaraj

Sunil Nandaraj

Nandini Velho

Nandini Velho

Babu Mathew

Babu Mathew

Past Management Committee members

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N Devadasan
Director
(Aug 2005- June 2019)

Upendra Bhojani

Director
(July 2019-Jun 2023)

Assistant Director (Advocacy)
(Dec 2015-Dec 2018)

Dorothy Lall
Assistant Director (Education)
(Apr 2018-Sep 2020)

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Diljith Kannan
Assistant Director (Education)
(Jan 2015-Dec 2017)

Prashanth N S
I\C Assistant Director (Education)
(Oct 2020-Aug 2022)

Assistant Director (Research)
(till June 2023)

Pragati B Hebbar
Assistant Director (Administration)
(Feb 2018-Aug 2022)

Staff Representative
(Nov 2015-Dec 2017)

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Gajalakshmi S
Staff Representative
(Apr 2018-Apr 2021)

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Vamshi Krishna
Assistant Director (Education)

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