KHPT's Senior Management Team consists of highly experienced professionals.

Dr James Blanchard, is an epidemiologist, public health physician, and Associate Professor at the University of Manitoba. He has spent the last decade working on HIV prevention in South Asia: as a contributor to the design of India's National AIDS Control Programme, as a member of a CIDA-sponsored technical support team assisting Pakistan's Ministry of Health with its second generation HIV/AIDS surveillance project, and as a member of a World Bank-appointed team that mapped populations at high risk of HIV in Afghanistan. Since KHPT's inception in 2003, Dr. Blanchard has provided technical support for KHPT's HIV prevention and care programmes. His research interests include epidemiology and control of STIs and HIV, transmission dynamics, and social and behavioural aspects of HIV. He also helped establish internationally recognized research programmes in inflammatory bowel disease and diabetes, and continues to conduct research in these areas. Dr. Blanchard received his M.D. from the University of Manitoba, and his M.P.H. and Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University.

Ms Parinita Bhattacharjee, Director, Programmes, is a graduate from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences and has 16 years of extensive experience in designing and managing programmes for sexual health including HIV prevention and care. Her recent experiences include scaling up HIV prevention interventions with sex workers and MSM-T in India. A strong believer in planning with the community, she has developed participatory tools on sexual health and has provided technical support to Bhutan, Sri Lanka and Ethiopia to design, scale up and evaluate their HIV prevention interventions. Ms. Bhattacharjee received a master's of medical and psychiatric social work from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai .

Dr Ramesh BM, Director, Monitoring & Evaluation, has a PhD in Demography and is a former faculty member of the International Institute for Population Sciences. Prior to joining KHPT, Dr. Ramesh was the director of the Population Research Centre, Dharwad, and a faculty member of the International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai. He is a demographer with 20 years of experience in teaching and research in the fields of demography, reproductive health, and HIV/AIDS and conducting demographic and health surveys. His main areas of interest are management information systems, reproductive health and HIV/AIDS programmes. He was a coordinator of the first round of the National Family Health Survey—one of the largest household surveys in the country. While at the International Institute for Population Sciences, he taught research methodology, population structure and characteristics, population education, and population psychology, and completed several research studies. While director of the Population Research Centre, Dr. Ramesh performed programme evaluations, implemented a reproductive health programme in the district, and developed a management information system for that programme. He was a recipient of a Population Council postdoctoral fellowship in 1996. Dr. Ramesh received his Ph.D. from Mumbai University.

Mr Mohan HL, Director, Community Mobilisation and Communications, is a social scientist. He has spent more than two decades working in government and non-governmental sectors, especially in the areas of education, health, decentralization and adolescent education. During his tenure he has worked extensively with grass-roots communities, using information and communications technology for empowering community members. Mr. Mohan has experience as a consultant for development projects in India and other countries, working with UNFPA, UNESCO and UNICEF. He has developed, implemented and managed several communization campaigns, and leads KHPT's communication and community mobilization initiatives. Mr. Mohan earned a master's degree in social work from the School of Social Work, Roshni Nilaya, Mangalore.

Mr Sukatirtha HS, Director, Finance, is an accredited member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. He has more than twenty years of experience managing the finances of NGOs working in the health sector in India .

Dr Stephen Moses, Project Director, Sankalp, is a physician and public health specialist who has spent over 25 years applying the discoveries and methods of medical science to public health programming and policy globally. He is renowned for directing pioneering HIV prevention programmes in Kenya and India, for forging institutional alliances for international scientific collaboration, and for leading studies throughout Asia and Africa. Dr. Moses is a professor of medical microbiology at the University of Manitoba and country director for the University's HIV and AIDS programmes in India. His main research and programmatic interests include biological and behavioural risk factors for STI/HIV transmission; syndromic approaches and risk assessment in the management of STIs; targeted interventions to reduce the transmission of STIs and HIV infection; health worker training in STI management in resource-poor settings; and integrated approaches to STI/HIV prevention and control. Dr. Moses received an M.P.H. from the Johns Hopkins University, and an M.D. from the University of Toronto.

Mr Senthil Murugan, Director, Strategic Initiatives & Knowledge Translation, is a social scientist with extensive community experience. Mr. Murugan has developed national policies and strategies to reach vulnerable groups, studied the socio-economic condition of female sex workers and their children, and managed HIV prevention programmes in Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Mr. Murugan earned a master's degree in social work from Madras School of Social Work, Madras University. He has been recently leading the learning and sharing initiatives.

Mr Arkajyothi Samanta, Director, Human Resources (HR) has extensive experience in human resources management, with a background of working in public sector undertaking and NGOs. He is a life member of National Institute of Personnel Management, India and actively involved for development of professionals in HR domain.

Dr Mrunal Shetye, Project Director, KHPT GFATM- 6 CCC project, has extensive experience in the field of health. Before joining KHPT, Dr. Shetye worked as surveillance medical officer with the National Polio Eradication Programme and as a physician and research officer with the National AIDS Research Institute, Pune. He is a member of the National Technical Resource Group on Care, and has played a lead role in the development of national guidelines for community care centres. He has provided major contributions to the assessment of the CCC programme nationally as a part of the design team as well as an evaluator, and was a member of the team that reworked the M&E system. He has worked extensively in the design, roll-out, scale-up and monitoring of HIV prevention interventions and medical service delivery for female sex workers and MSM. Presently Dr. Shetye is working closely with the government to ensure smooth transition of these programs to the state AIDS control societies. He received his M.D. from B. J. Medical College, University of Pune.

Dr. Priyamvada Singh, has 20 years of experience in the development sector in the areas of health, HIV/AIDS and education. Having led several program teams, she has been involved in developing national and state program implementation plans and targeted intervention operational guidelines. Dr. Singh is also a member of NACO's Technical Resource Group on TIs and is an author of several publications on HIV/AIDS.

Dr Reynold Washington, Chief of Party, Samastha, With nearly three decades of experience in teaching and programme management. He has been a technical advisor on HIV/AIDS and health to many national and international bodies. His expertise is in the areas of research, participatory programme planning and assessment, and implementation and evaluation of public health training and programmes. He has made more than 10 invited presentations at international conferences, published over 20 papers in peer-reviewed journals, and authored over 15 books and monographs. Dr. Washington leads his team in strengthening STI services, implementing treatment protocols, and supporting research at KHPT. He earned his M.D. from St. John's Medical College, Bangalore.

Dr. Shajy Isac, is a demographer with over 15 years of experience in designing research in the areas of HIV/AIDS; maternal, child and reproductive health; and education. He had led many mapping and research surveys in India and other countries in South Asia, including India's National Family Health Survey and District Level Household Survey, HIV/AIDS behavioural and biological surveys, HIV Behavioural Surveillance Survey, social marketing of contraceptives and National Health Accounts. He has handled studies for various international and national donors including UNICEF, the World Bank, WHO, UNFPA, USAID, Research Triangular Institute, Population Services International, DFID, Family Health International, World Vision, the Johns Hopkins University, the government of India's Ministry of Health & Family Welfare and various state governments. He has authored more than 30 papers which are either published in international or national journals, or presented at conferences. Dr. Isac received his Ph.D. from International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai.

Dr Srinath Maddur, Director, Capacity Building, is a psychologist, and has more than 15 years of experience in the field of HIV & AIDS. He has worked extensively with exploited children and people living with HIV, and has strong interest in public health applications of information & communication technology. He leads capacity building initiatives and has developed, implemented & managed several capacity building strategies. He received his Ph.D. in psychology from Bangalore University.