Deepanjali Behera

Ms. Behera is a public health specialist with close to a decade of work experience in the academics, research and project management in multiple countries. She holds a Master of Public Health (MPH) qualification with a specialization in social epidemiology from Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai. She has completed several post-graduate certificate programs from Harvard School of Public Health, USA; University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia and University of Copenhagen. She possesses experience of working with many internationally reputed academic and research institutions in Thailand, Australia and India. This includes her role in MIT’s J-PAL South Asia where she was managing large-scale randomized controlled trial (RCT) experiments. Moreover, she has hold key positions in disease surveillance and programme management in government and non- government health organizations in India. She has completed research projects as a principal investigator and published 15 research papers in peer-reviewed journals indexed in PubMed, Web of Science, SCI and Scopus databases. Currently, she is serving as a review editor in Frontiers in Public Health journal and as reviewer in many international journals including PLOS one, PLOS Global Public Health, Global Implementation Research and Applications among others.