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Antaryami Dash

Save the Children, UNICEF, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Public Health Foundation of India, Government of Odisha, Cornell University

ORCID iD 0000-0001-6581-8709
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About

I am a public health and nutrition expert in the development and humanitarian sector. I have over 14 years of experience in program management - drawing up a program to overseeing its implementation. I head the Nutrition portfolio at Save the Children, India and have worked with UNICEF in the past, delivering results at scale, on both nutrition specific and sensitive sectors through a systems approach.

BACKGROUND SUMMARY
 Extensive technical knowledge, working skills, experience and education in public health and nutrition, development of public health strategies
 Senior-level management including portfolio development, project design and roll out, building partnerships, business development, developing high quality proposals, evidence-based advocacy, building partnership with Government, UN, Academia, INGO and CBOs
 In-depth understanding of issues and work experience in IYCF, IM-SAM, Anemia, Maternal and Adolescent Nutrition, Nutrition in Emergency, Nutrition Surveillance and MEAL
 Mentoring - Conducting skill-based training, leading multi-sectoral technical working groups
 Research - Designing large scale surveys and conducting data analysis, measuring impact, modeling of infectious diseases in the humanitarian setting

SPECIALITIES:
Strategic planning, building partnership, nurturing teams and networks and managing large-scale complex program innovations, business development, gap and need assessment, data analytics, monitoring and evaluation, research and innovation. Currently leading the Nutrition Portfolio of Save the Children and developing program with specific focus on research, innovations, knowledge management and evidence based advocacy.

Employment

  • Save the Children Head of Nutrition
    2017 - Present
  • UNICEF Nutrition Officer
    2017 - 2017
  • UNICEF Consultant - Child Development and Nutrition
    2011 - 2017
  • Government of Odisha Medical Officer
    2007 - 2009

Education

  • Tata Institute of Social Sciences PhD in Public Health (on-going)
    2021 - Present
  • Public Health Foundation of India Sample Size Estimation and Sampling
    2020 - 2020
  • Cornell University Programming for Infant and Young Child Feeding
    2019 - 2019
  • St. Johns Research Institute Nutrition Research
    2019 - 2019
  • Emory University Health in Complex Humanitarian Emergencies
    2017 - 2017
  • Institute of Public Health Bengaluru Health Financing
    2016 - 2016
  • Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research Basic Health Economics
    2015 - 2015
  • Public Health Foundation of India Global Public Health
    2015 - 2015
  • Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health Epidemiology and Modeling of Infectious Diseases in the Humanitarian Setting
    2011 - 2021

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (6)