Founder / CEO - Chief Executive Officer
Prabhu has over 19 years of experience in Monitoring and Evaluation and large-scale health survey expertise. He is a doctorate in Demography/Population Science from The Gandhigram Rural Institute (Deemed University). He has conceptualized, designed, developed, managed and implemented the M&E in diverse projects. He has developed and implemented databases to track the flow of information within complex, multi-layered, geographically dispersed projects , placing a specific emphasis on data quality.
Established
and designed the conceptual workflow for Monitoring Information System (MIS),
and customized various data capture and reporting tools such as (CSPro,ODK, Dobblo ,SurveyCTO
google forms etc.,). Conducted several training workshops on data capture and
reporting tools such as (CSPro,ODK,
etc.,) and use of Quantitative software’s such as SPSS, STATA etc.,.
He has also extensively worked in various large-scale demographic, health surveys in India (DLHS, NFHS etc.). Prior to this, he has been associated with Mamta-HIMC,PSI, UN Agencies, IIPS & Population Research Centre, Gandhigram.
Sr. Consultant Research
He has the experience of more than four decades in research and conducting surveys related to fertility , mortality, migration, health and family welfare, nutrition, environment, social exclusion and discrimination empowerment of women, and evaluation of Government welfare programs. He holds an MSc, in Statistics and is professionally qualified as Demographer/Population Scientist from East-West Centre/University of Hawai, Honolulu, USA and had PhD in Population Studies from Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati. He was the Director for Population Research Centre, Gandhigram, Tamil Nadu and full fledged Director in- charge of the parent institute for two years. He was also the Head of the Centre for Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy, Gandhigram Rural University, Tamil Nadu and Professor of Emiritus (UGC) in the Centre for Applied Research Centre, Gandhigram Rural University, Tamil Nadu.
He has lead the first three rounds of National Family Health Survey and District Level Health Survey in Tamil Nadu. He has completed 104 research projects and given feed back mostly to Central and State Governments of India. He has also published 128 research reports and articles.
Sr. Consultant - Public Health Specialist
Dr. Sonali, is a public health and nutrition professional with more than 20 years of experience in leading and managing projects, policy advocacy, providing technical assistance designing and implementing innovative capacity building programmes, gap analysis, supportive supervision, monitoring and evaluation in multiple states of India.
Her expertise lies
around Project management, implementation research, quality and feasibility
assessments, gap analysis, public health research and facilitating capacity
building, community engagement, monitoring and evaluation and supply chain
management.
Sr. Consultant - Public Policy Research
Sundara Babu Nagappan is a public policy analyst, a social sciences researcher, and a grassroots civil society trainer. Since 1998, he has been involved in several social studies, action-researches, documentation and training with particular focus on ensuring socio-economic justice, equitable natural resources distribution, and conflict transformation. Moreover since 2010, he has also been actively involved in various contemporary initiatives associated with social protection, community medicine, animal welfare, intellectual property rights, social enterprises, labour wellbeing, cooperative farming, abolishing manual scavenging, organic cultivations, environmental impact assessments, forest & coastal rights, mental health, occupational safety, social welfare, and legal compliances in India and in abroad.
His current ongoing engagements include action-research on
'geo-cultures' and 'human economy' in South Asia. He holds a PhD (2005) degree from
School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
Consultant - Research
She has over ten years of professional experience in
Program management, research, monitoring and evaluation in the areas of
Education, Nutrition, HIV/AIDS, RCH, trafficking of women and children into
sex-work, children of sex workers and Adolescents. Monitoring large-scale
sample surveys, analytical skills of qualitative and quantitative and
Evaluation of intervention programs. She holds a Masters’ degree in Social Work
from Acharya Nagarjuna University, Andhra Pradesh and Ph.D. in Population
Studies from Annamalai University, Tamil Nadu, Mumbai. She has been associated
with SATHI, IIPS, PRERANA, NEERMAN and UNICEF, Delhi.
Consultant - Research
She has a Doctorate degree holder in Anthropology with over nine years of experience in
academic, non-profit and government settings. Owing to this experience of
working in various health and social care projects (reproductive, maternal and
child health, Nutrition, HIV, adolescent health and post-reproductive health
and care), . she is well-versed in designing research study using quantitative
and qualitative methods, conducting fieldwork, collecting ethnographic account,
writing research grants, reports, articles and scientific papers for high
impact peer-reviewed Journals.
Consultant - Qualitative Research
She is a trained anthropologist with more than five
years of experience in community-based research related to non-communicable
diseases, maternal and child health, and child’s cognitive development and
neurodevelopmental disorders. Have extensive knowledge of quantitative and
qualitative research methods and is proficient in data analysis. Skilled in the
development, cultural adaptation, and validation of assessment tools; designing
research study; preparing research protocols; capacity building of health
workers and monitoring data quality.
National Manager Field Operational
Raj Kumar Pandey has over 18+ years of experience in
large-scale health survey data collection expertise. He holds Masters in
Commerce (Applied Economics) from Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University
Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. He worked as state coordinator/Executive-in-charge in
various organization where he implemented large scale Surveys which was
conducted by various clients (NACO, RTI, MoHFW, PSI, ABC Associate, ORGI,
UNICEF, LIRNEasia etc.) in India Like AHS-I, II & III in UP Jharkhand, IBBS
in Himachal Pradesh J&K, Haryana, Punjab, RIMCH in entre 75 districts of
UP. He has been associated with, Mind Field Research Pvt Ltd Lucknow, TNS India
Pvt Ltd Patna & Delhi, Kantar Operations Lucknow, Absolutus solitio Pvt Ltd
where handle large scale PAN India data collection activities.
Consultant Field Operational
Masthanaiah has served over ten years of experience
in large-scale health survey expertise. He has Masters and Phd in Ph.D.in Geography from Sri Krishnadevaraya
University, Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh. He has state implementation officer in
various large scale national level Surveys which was conducted by MoHFW Govt.
of India and IIPS together like (NFHS-5, Global Adult Tobacco Survey-2,
Comprehensive Nutrition Survey in Gujarat & Maharashtra-(CNSG), District
Level Household & Facility Survey-round-III & IV and NRHM etc., He has
been associated with, Population Council, IIPS, Tata Institute of Social
Sciences Mumbai and Population Research Centre- Visakhapatnam.
Consultant
With
over 25 empaneled independent consultants, Iotalytics core resource pool
consists of experienced professionals from the fields of monitoring, large
scale survey-based impact evaluation, technical research, project management
and capacity building. The team is supported by demographers qualitative quantitative researchers,
programmers and developers, proposal and report writers. Our staff also
consists of a cadre of trained project managers, researchers, scientists.
Director
Prof. N. Ponnusamy has been in the academic field with more than three decades of teaching experience. He holds a Ph.D. in Statistics, from Bharathidasan university Trichy. He is also a founder of Rural Training Research and Foundation. The NGO is based in Trichy engaged in socio-cultural activities as well as health awareness and treatment programs.
Advisor
Dr. G. Arivarignan, was Former UGC, Emeritus Fellow at M.S. University, Tirunelveli, Former CSIR Emeritus Scientist at M. K. University, Madurai, also Former Chairperson, School of Mathematics, Senior Professor of Statistics and Head (Retd.), Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, School of Mathematics Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai Tamil Nadu. He has a three decades of experience in statistics and health research. Actively associated with a number of policy commissions / committees of national and international importance. He has also, authored of several papers, books and reports.
(Honorary) Advisor
He is a medical doctor and a public health specialist with over 24 years of experience in the fields of organization of primary healthcare, monitoring and evaluation of large scale health programs, policy reforms, public health education and corporate philanthropy. Based in Bangalore, Dr. Nayanjeet currently works as a Senior Global Technical Adviser at Public Health Institute, Oakland CA, seconded to Medtronic Foundation, Minneapolis, MN. He also serves as an honorary adviser at Ramaiah International Centre for Public Health Innovations, Bangalore and as honorary president at EcDEESHA Foundation, Anand. His details are available here
Advisor
Dr.
Sonali, is a public health and nutrition professional with more than 20 years of
experience in leading and managing projects, policy advocacy, providing
technical assistance designing and implementing
innovative capacity building programmes, gap analysis, supportive supervision,
monitoring and evaluation in multiple states of India. My expertise lies
around Project management, implementation research, quality and feasibility
assessments, gap analysis, public health research and facilitating capacity
building, community engagement, monitoring and evaluation and supply chain
management.