Dr H.P.S. Sachdev is a Senior Consultant, Pediatrics and Clinic Epidemiology, Sitaram Bharti Institute of Science and Research, New Delhi. He is Former Professor and In-charge, Division of Clinical Epidemiology, Department of Paediatrics at the Maulana Azad Medical College. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Medical research Council Environmental Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom. He was also National President of the Indian Academy of Paediatrics.
Dr Sachdev is credited with 130 international and national indexed publications. His major research interests include child nutrition and improving child health through the use of appropriate technologies in developing countries. He has co-authored the recent Lancet Series on Maternal and Child Nutrition. He has edited twelve popular books and five reports relevant to child health in the context of developing countries. He is the recipient of prestigious National Research Awards from the Indian Council of Medical Research and the Indian Academy of Paediatrics. He has been honoured with the Fellowships of the National Academy of Medical Sciences, Indian Academy of Paediatrics and International Medical Sciences Academy. He was formerly Editor-in-Chief of Indian Paediatrics - the official indexed Journal of the Indian Academy of Paediatrics. He has served as referee for several international and national journals. He is member of the advisory board of the British Medical Journal publication Clinical Evidence. He is current Secretary of the Nutrition Society of India.
Dr. Armida Fernandez was Professor of Neonatology and, later, Dean of Lokmanya Tilak Muncipal General Hospital and Lokmanya Tilak Muncipal Medical College, Sion, Mumbai. She is a founder trustee of the Society for Nutrition Education and Health Action (SNEHA), a nonprofit organisation working on issues facing vulnerable women and children in the slums of Mumbai. She has been in charge of a 47 bedded neonatal intensive care unit and a neonatal unit comprising of 5000- 6000 normal babies. She has done pioneering work in breast milk banking and was the Director of a Human Milk Bank. She was the past president of the National Neonatology Forum and is the author of numerous publications.
Mr. Amitabh Behar is Executive Director of National Centre for Advocacy Studies (ncasindia.org) – an organization based at Pune working for strengthening the capacity of social action groups to advocate issues of public concern. He has an illustrious career in Civil Society sector as to support, coordinate and implement people centric development initiatives. His area of interest is Civil Society, Governance and Panchayati Raj. He has been the Convenor (Steering Group) of Wada Na Todo Abhiyan- a campaign to hold the government accountable to its promise to end poverty and social exclusion. Amitabh Behar has authored influential books like the Citizens'' Report on Governance and Development 2007 and the Social Watch India Report. He has been active on various social, political and equity and gender related issues for over 15 years. He had earlier worked with Ford Foundation and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation.
Dr. Siddharth Raj Agarwal has nearly 20 years experience in medicine, project management, and technical assistance. He has been championing the cause of health of urban poor since March 2002, first as Country Representative and Urban Health Director of the USAID supported Environmental Health Project (EHP) and currently as the Executive Director of the Urban Health Resource Centre (UHRC). He has led a successful transition of the USAID supported EHP to an India based technical agency- UHRC. Before EHP, he worked with CARE India providing technical and programmatic support to projects for community-based maternal, child and newborn care. Dr Agarwal was part of USAID''s review team that examined options for "Enhancing Child Survival Impact" of the current program in summer 2000. Prior to this, he managed CARE''s Maternal and Infant Survival Project in the state of Madhya Pradesh. Dr Agarwal has experience of working with the government of Uttar Pradesh''s Department of Health and Welfare as well as with the LLRM Medical College, Meerut. Dr Agarwal is the author of numerous public health papers and has given presentations and talks on a variety of topics. He holds a degree in medicine from the LLRM Medical College in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh.
Dr. Sainath Banerjee has over fourteen years of experience in the field of social development. He has a broad base of knowledge and understanding in many different subjects of social development such as Maternal, child and newborn health, Tuberculosis, sickle cell Anemia & Thalassemia, Demography, Child Survival, Food Security, Rehabilitation and Resettlements, NGO networking etc. For the last eight years, he has been associated with programs which develop and test community based public health program interventions amongst the most vulnerable communities such as tribal and urban slum population surviving in extremely poor condition of life. Sainath has started his career, as a research fellow with National Institute of Health and Family Welfare, New Delhi, and then successfully worked in Society for Development Alternatives (DA), CARE- India. Sainath has worked extensively in tribal areas of seven Indian states and on urban issues in different cities of India. He also got international exposures on social development issues in countries like Bangladesh, Kenya and Thiland. Program management, impact assessment, evaluation, HIMS, BCC and training are his area of interest. Sainath is an Anthropologist by education, having Ph.D degree (1995) on population genetics from Dr. H. S. Gour University, Saugar M.P. India