Sanghamitra Savadatti
Dr. Sanghamitra Savadatti is the thematic lead for Health for the Urban Vulnerable, an ecosystem vertical at KHPT that aims to bridge global best practices with local innovations, stakeholder engagement, systems strengthening, and citizen ownership to address emerging and evolving health priorities of vulnerable urban populations in India.
She holds an MPH from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a DrPH from the University at Albany (USA). With over 18 years of experience in public health, her expertise spans cross-functional team leadership, strategic program planning and design, operational decision-making, program monitoring, teaching, mentoring, and research.
Dr Manoj Kumar Pati
Manoj is a public health professional with more than 10 years of experience in health systems research and program implementation. He has years of experience in leading implementation research and population-based randomized controlled trial programs. His expertise lies in designing, implementing, and ensuring quality improvement techniques for improved health care; he brings experience in the organization of chronic care systems especially at the primary healthcare level. He is recently engaged in designing and implementing population-level programs in the area of non-communicable diseases, tuberculosis, and maternal and child health. He is leading the quality improvement and quality of life portfolio in the CPHC thematic area at KHPT; in the past, he led an urban health system based project aiming to strengthen the continuum of care for non-communicable disease in primary health care settings. He has several publications in peer-reviewed, indexed international/ national journals.
Chiteisri Devi
Chiteisri is a writer and former lawyer with over 15 years of experience in the development sector. She currently serves as a Communications Manager in the Health for the Urban Vulnerable theme at KHPT, after a prior part-time stint in the Knowledge Management division.
From 2016-2020, Chiteisri worked at the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) as a Research Associate and then as an Education Manager with the SDG Academy–its flagship education initiative. Other previous roles include sole researcher at the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Rule of Law Programme, Asia, in Singapore and as a legal officer to Parayavaran Mitra in Ahmedabad .
Chiteisri holds a Master’s degree in Anthropology, Environment and Development from University College, London (UCL) and an undergraduate degree in Law from ILS Law College, Pune.
In 2011, Chiteisri was chosen as a Young India Fellow, from a pool of ~6000 applicants, for the founding batch of the post-graduate inter-disciplinary year-long fully funded programme in Liberal Arts, Perspective building and Leadership. Outside of work, Chiteisri enjoys all-things art, literature and pursues a fiendish love for travelling.