Dr Purnima Rao Jevaji

Purnima is a public health officer and holds an experience of over eleven years in the sector. She has extensive experience in working with policymakers, various international and national partners, multi-state geographies, and environment collaborative projects to strengthen the implementation of various public health programmes.

Dr Rao holds a master’s in hospital administration with a bachelor’s in Dentistry and has worked with various development organisations like PHFI and UNICEF. She is certified in scientific writing from the Stanford University, United Kingdom.  She liaisoned with various state governments regarding project implementation activities and conducted wide-ranging studies with study centres and locations across India.

At The George, she is a program in charge and manages the NCD projects on urban health and gestational diabetes. She is working on quality monitoring of clinical drug trials on chronic kidney disease and COVID-19. Her role aligns towards capturing and understanding the requirements for the stressors and barriers to accessing psychosocial well-being that is crucial in the deployment and sustainability of the finalised intervention(s).