CPHE Bangalore team
CPHE Bangalore Team
Technical team
Dr. Thelma Narayan – Coordinator
Dr. Thelma Narayan is an epidemiologist, health policy analyst and activist who coordinates CPHE and is director of the CPHE Madhya Pradesh Initiative. She is one of the original co-initiators of Community Health Cell (CHC).
Dr. Thelma Narayan currently works with various national health initiatives including the National Rural Health Mission and the National Health System Resource Centre. She was a member of the Task Force on Health and Family Welfare, Karnataka and has evolved public health and primary health care oriented state health policies in Karnataka and Orissa. She was a member of the Measurement and Evidence Knowledge Network of the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health. She is an active member of the People’s Health Movement network and was the joint convenor of the Jan Swasthya Abhiyan (PHM India) till recently. She is also a contributor to the Global Health Watch and a faculty member of the International People’s Health University.
Email: thelma@sochara.org
Dr. Ravi Narayan – Community Health Advisor
Dr. Ravi Narayan is a public health professional and health activist who currently works as an honorary Community Health Adviser at Centre for Public Health and Equity, Bangalore. His main interests include the community paradigm in health and the evolution of health as a social movement. He is one of the original co-initiators of Community Health Cell (CHC).
Dr. Ravi Narayan is an active member of the People’s Health Movement network. He was the joint convener of the Jan Swasthya Abhiyan till December 2002 and later coordinator of the Global Secretariat of People’s Health Movement from January 2003 to July 2006. Currently he is a member of WHO Advocacy Circle of PHM and also part of the PHM Steering Council and Coordinating Council. He is also associated with the Global Health Watch and a faculty of the International People’s Health University. He is a council member of the Global Forum for Health Research and founding governing body member of the Public Health Foundation of India. He is a member of the Task Force on Primary Health Care of the Planning Commission of India and is also closely associated with two major initiatives of the Central Ministry of Health, the National Rural Health Mission and the AYUSH and Public Health Initiative. He is also a member of the International Advisory Committee and the speciality advisor on public health of the British Medical Journal.
Email: chcravi@gmail.com
Dr. Deepak Kumaraswamy- Research and Training Assistant
Dr. Deepak Kumaraswamy is trained in Ayurveda, and was previously associated with Foundation for Revitalization of Local Health Traditions. He worked as a co-investigator on the Research Initiative on Traditional Antimalarial Methods project which was to assess the prophylactic effectiveness local herbal health practices on malaria among healthy individuals in the malaria endemic areas of Orissa and North Andhra Pradesh. He is a volunteer with the Peoples Health Movement in India. He has been working with Centre for Public Health and Equity as a Research and Training Assistant since 2008 and has focused on evolving the SOCHARA archives including the Silver Jubilee CD, assisted with the District Public Health Manager’s Manual and the background documentation of the Madhya Pradesh Initiative.
Email: deepak@sochara.org
Dr. Adithya Pradyumna – Policy Research Assistant
Adithya, a graduate from St. John’s Medical College and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, has his main interest in Environment and Health. His association with SOCHARA began in 2008 when he enrolled as a full time fellow with the 9-month Community Health Learning Programme. Following that he worked briefly as a Research Assistant with the Regional Occupational Health Centre, Bangalore. Since Feb 2010 he has resumed work at CPHE. His areas of work include Environmental and Occupational Health research and training.
Email: adithya.pradyumna@gmail.com
Office team
Mr. Matthew Alex – Secretarial and Accounts Assistant
Matthew Alex completed his B.Com in 1984 and has experience working with the finance sections of a number of organisations. He joined CHC in 2006 and and has been part of the CPHE Bangalore team since its inception in 2008. He ably manages the CPHE accounts, correspondence, travel arrangements and all other administrative work. He recently completed his MBA through correspondence.
Email: cphe@sochara.org
Mr. Joesph Anthoniappa – Office and Maintainence Assistant
Joseph Anthoniappa joined CHC in 1997 as an office assistant. He is responsible for secretarial and maintainence work at the CPHE Bangalore office. He also helps running the CPHE library.
Mr.Hariprasad Ojha – Office Assistant
Hariprasad Ojha joined CHC in 2000 as a watchman. He quickly became involved in the community health work of the centre and currently works as an office assistant in CPHE.
Ms. Kamalamma -Office Helper
Kamalamma has been working with CHC since 1996 as a office helper. She hails from Mandya.
[...] Beginnen wollen wir mit einem Gespräch mit Dr. Ravi Narayan vom Center for Public Health and Equity in Bangalore/Indien. Er leitete von 2003 bis 2006 das Global Secretariat des People’s Health Movement (PHM) und ist neben vielen weiteren Aktivitäten auch Teil dessen Steering Council. (weitere Infos unter diesem Link: http://cphe.sochara.org/about/cphe-bangalore-team/). [...]
Thank you to Ravi ofr coming to Nottingham Trent Univeristy to talk to my Masters students. Very inspirational!