Multilingual public health strategic communicator with dual degrees in Medicine, Public Health & Preventive Medicine. Over 9 years of professional experience in strategic planning for corporate communications, risk communication, epidemiology and community engagement, always with a strong focus on health promotion, social marketing, advocacy, community mobilization, capacity building, and resource mobilization.

Dr. Sonal Katyal has more than ten years of academic and research experience. She has done her PhD in Economics in the area of Maternal Healthcare titled ‘Equity and Accessibility in Maternal Health Care – An Evaluation’.

Previously, she has worked at coveted institutions like Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and has taught at highly ranked Lancaster University management school partnership in India. She is an active researcher and has presented and published her work at national and international platforms.
She has also cleared UGC –NET in economics.
Dr Sonal has a holistic approach to life and has interest in travel , baking , fitness and community activities.

Dr. Deshpande is an eager Epidemiologist with a background in Oral Medicine. She is experienced working with epidemiological methods, statistical computing and mapping tools using SAS, STATA, RStudio and Tableau. She is passionate about the arena of infectious diseases through disease surveillance, spatiotemporal trends and clinical research.

Dr. Esther is a Clinical Nutritionist with extensive experience in medical content development and research, training and management of teams.

Prof Peter Nyasulu is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the School of Health Sciences, Monash South Africa. He is also a member of the executive board of the African Centre for eHealth Excellence (Acfee) and an editor and frequent contributor to eHealth News Africa.

Peter’s teaching focuses on measurement and disease control courses. He is an infectious diseases epidemiologist with a long history of involvement in clinical and epidemiological research in tuberculosis, HIV, sexually transmitted diseases, pneumococcal diseases, and antimicrobial resistance surveillance.