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Dr. Rajiv Tandon

India

Summary Bio Dr. Rajiv Tandon is a leading public health and nutrition expert and advocate in India, with over 40 years of active developmental and medical experience across a range of public health issues. Along with his training and clinical practice as a Paediatrician and Neonatologist for over two decades, he has led and shaped many civil society organisations and donors, large global, regional, and national programs and advocacy initiatives in the public health and social development space.
Dr. Tandon has extensive experience and expertise on Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health (RMNCH), Agriculture-Food and Nutrition Security, Neglected Tropical Diseases and Malaria (NTD&M), Vaccines and Health Technologies, and Health Systems Reforms. He has conceptualised, coordinated and participated within diverse, multi-stakeholder platforms and fora to push the policy and programmatic agendas, including the Coalition for Sustainable Nutrition Security in India, the Partnership for Maternal Newborn Child Health (PMNCH), the RMNCH+A Coalition, Neglected Tropic Diseases Coalition, Covid Catalytic Partnership, Parliamentarians for Malaria Elimination, Acute Encephalitis Syndrome TAG, South Asia Regional Coordinating Mechanism of the Global Fund, etc., leading to health policy reforms.
Dr. Tandon has been closely associated with and has advised various global academic institutions on key initiatives, such as Harvard School of Public Health (Better Birth study), Stanford Center for International Development (Stanford India Health Policy Initiative), McGill Centre for the Convergence of Health and Economics (Whole of Society Convergent Innovation Platform), Washington University (Local Contextualised RUTF), KLE University (Maternal Newborn Registry and Postpartum Hemorrhage). He has been in the senior leadership of various civil society organisations and public health communities from global to national levels, actively growing them and facilitating greater technical rigour and quality, for equitable and sustainable impact. He has been the author of various scientific, peer-reviewed publications and has been recognised for this contributions to the field.