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Dr. Angela Chaudhuri

Swasti The Health Catalyst, Boston University

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Dr Angela Chaudhuri

Angela has over 20 years of experience in Public Health in India and internationally. She is currently the Chief Catalyst at Swasti, The Health Catalyst and leads the Health Practice for Catalyst Management Services Pvt Ltd. From the evaluation of several countries’ national HIV programs to research, capacity building and knowledge management, Angela works closely with governments, civil society, community groups and corporates. She has led teams to help countries raise close to a billion dollars towards HIV, TB, Malaria, Health Systems Strengthening, and Community Systems Strengthening, and she continues to support governments with poor health outcomes to help strengthen their systems of information, human resource management, program design, and planning. She has co-designed interventions globally and helped raise over 1.3 Billion USD for TB, HIV, and Malaria for 12 countries.

She has a Bachelor’s Degree in Dental Sciences (Bangalore University), Masters in Public Health (Boston University) and PG Diploma in Journalism (London School). She has lived in five countries and has worked in over 30 countries and most of India. She currently serves on the board of the Catalyst Group of Institutions, IDEX Global Accelerator , AIDS Society of Asia and Pacific and serves on the strategy and finance committee of Partnership of Maternal Newborn and Child Health (PMNCH) a global alliance hosted by the World Health Organization. She is a part of MIT Solve Leadership group and in the Social Participation Technical Network hosted by the WHO.

Angela is a Partner in Swasti having been in the organisation since its inception in 2004 and is responsible for its growth and trajectory. Swasti (Wellbeing in Sanskrit) is a Global South civil society organisation that is committed to adding 100 million ‘well’thy days for Vulnerable Communities. We work to upgrade the discourse from health to well-being and join the missing pieces in wellness together (social, behavioural, management and technology) around the technical/medical aspects, with a strong focus on Prevention and Promotion. Our success is in re-inventing systems to make it work for all, particularly for the vulnerable. Our multidisciplinary teams do two things well - 1. Demonstrate scalable, cost effective and sustainable models in partnership with communities 2. Support partners to reach impact.

Angela’s mission is towards making universal health access work for the poor. During these COVID times, she’s led critical and scaled solutions like tele-care ( health, counseling and social protection) services to urban and rural poor and marginalised communities including sex workers, transgenders and fisher folk, and community-based testing , having learnt valuable lessons from the immensely successful model of community based testing of HIV.

Employment

  • Swasti The Health Catalyst Partner
    2004 - Present

Education

  • Boston University Masters In Public Health
    2002 - 2005

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (4)