The Observer Research Foundation, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, is pleased to organise a consultation workshop on the importance of adolescent health. Dr. Harsh Vardhan, Hon’ble Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India will be inaugurating the workshop.
The workshop will discuss the possibility of scaling up state-level best practices to address adolescent sexual and reproductive health amidst the continued challenges of early marriage, teenage pregnancy, anaemia and high incidence of maternal mortality.
The agenda can be found here
Anjali Nayyar, Executive Vice President, Global Health Strategies
Aparajita Gogoi, Executive Director, Centre for Catalyzing Change
Harsh Vardhan, Hon’ble Minister, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare
Henk Bekedam, WHO Representative to India
Hisham Mundol, Executive Director, India & Child Protection, Children’s Investment Fund Foundation
Jayanti Ravi, Principal Secretary, Department of Health & Family Welfare, Gujarat*
Kanchan Gupta, Distinguished Fellow, Observer Research Foundation
LS Changsan, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Human Resource Development*
Monika Arora, Director of Health Promotion Division, Public Health Foundation of India
Manoj Kumar Shukul, General Manager, Rashtriya Kishor Swasthya Karyakram, National Health Mission, Uttar Pradesh
Medha Gandhi, Country Lead, Family Planning Policy, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
P Ashok Babu, Director- ICDS, Ministry of Women & Child Development*
Pallavi Jain Govil, Principal Secretary, Department of Health & Family Welfare, Madhya Pradesh
Poonam Mutreja, Executive Director, Population Foundation of India
Pradeep Kumar Vyas, Principal Secretary, Department of Health & Family Welfare, Maharashtra
Preeti Sudan, Secretary, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare*
Priyank Kanoongo, Chairperson, National Commission for Protection of Child Rights
Rajeev Arora, Additional Chief Secretary, Department of Health & Family Welfare, Haryana*
Rekha Rani Singh, Deputy Director & Nodal Officer RKSK, Department of Health & Family Welfare, Jharkhand
Renu Singh, Country Director, Young Lives India
Rifat Hasan, Senior Health Specialist, World Bank
Shailaja Mane, Coordinator, AACCI
Sunil Mehra, Executive Director, MAMTA-Health Institute for Mother & Child
Sushma Dureja, Deputy Commissioner, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare*
Yasmin Ali Haque, UNICEF India Representative
The event is from 10:30-17:00 hours
