Bhawani Singh Kushwaha

About

A Public Health specialist working for Government of India with an expertise of two decades to engage with UN agencies, Developmental Partners, Non-Government/ Community Based Organizations and Community groups to develop and manage Innovative Health Service delivery Models using multi-sectoral engagement. Having an extensive experience of administration, budgetary planning, providing Technical Oversight and managing domestic budgeted activities and global fund grants for improving Health care systems for especially for underprivileged & marginalized sections and creating enabling environment at National and Sub-National Level in India.

Employment

• Ministry of Health and Family Welfare TB Officer (ADG)
  2024 - Present
• Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Deputy Director
  2017 - 2024
• Organisation mondiale de la santé Surveillance Medical Officer
  2008 - 2017

Education

• Saurashtra University MD
  2005 - 2008
• Saurashtra University MBBS
  1999 - 2004

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (15)

• From DOTS to DOST: a new framework for TB elimination in India
  The Lancet Regional Health - Southeast Asia 2026 1 citation DOI: 10.1016/j.lansea.2026.100721
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• Virtual model for HIV self-testing demand generation and kit distribution: Results from the STAR III study in India
  JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes 2025 0 citations DOI: 10.1097/qai.0000000000003792
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• A study on unsafe sexual practices among short-distance drivers in India: A cross-sectional study
  Discover Public Health 2025 0 citations DOI: 10.1186/s12982-025-00980-1
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• Programmatic mapping and population size estimation of key population in India: Method and findings
  PLOS Global Public Health 2025 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0004475
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• Access to HIV-related Services Among Short-distance Drivers in India: Insights from a Qualitative Study
  Journal of Psychosexual Health 2025 0 citations DOI: 10.1177/26318318251322633
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• Effect of antiretroviral therapy on retention of people living with HIV in India (2012–2017): a retrospective, cohort study
  The Lancet Regional Health - Southeast Asia 2025 5 citations DOI: 10.1016/j.lansea.2025.100552
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• Acceptability, usability, and willingness to pay for HIV self‐test kits distributed through community‐based, PLHIV network‐led and private practitioners models in India: Results from the STAR III Initiative
  Journal of the International AIDS Society 2024 DOI: 10.1002/jia2.26348
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• Voucher incentives to improve viral suppression among HIV-positive people who inject drugs and men who have sex with men in India: a cluster randomised trial
  The Lancet HIV 2024 8 citations DOI: 10.1016/s2352-3018(24)00005-5
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• Caregivers’ experiences of accessing HIV Early Infant Diagnosis (EID) services and its barriers and facilitators, India
  BMC Health Services Research 2024 3 citations DOI: 10.1186/s12913-023-10500-z
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• Efficacy of a Multi-Level Pilot Intervention (“Harmony”) to Reduce Discrimination Faced by Men Who Have Sex with Men and Transgender Women in Public Hospitals in India: Findings from a Pre- and Post-Test Quasi-Experimental Trial among Healthcare Workers
  Venereology 2023 4 citations DOI: 10.3390/venereology2030009
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