DR SANJANA BHARDWAJ

Dr Sanjana Bhardwaj is currently the Chief of Health and HIV for UNICEF, Nigeria where her portfolio covers maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health and HIV programs including the humanitarian and emergency response. Dr Bhardwaj has over 25 years of experience in the health and development sector in different capacities and roles. She has worked as a clinician, serving at primary care, intensive care and tertiary care facilities in rural and urban areas in several states of India. She served as a faculty member in the Community Medicine and Public Health department at the University of the West Indies, working across 17 English speaking countries in the Caribbean; led the child survival and development portfolio for UNICEF in South Africa and worked and contributed across different countries, like Papua New Guinea, Barbados, Belize, Trinidad and Tobago and the USA. Dr Bhardwaj’s interests focus on the realisation of child rights through an integrated systems approach to development, facilitating participation and dialogue across different stakeholder groups. She has led and pioneered the use of data for action and results in several national programs, supporting development of various tools to support decentralized planning and budgeting. Dr Bhardwaj has and continues to participate on several international and national forums and committees. She is widely published in peer-reviewed journals, book chapters, training manuals and blogs across a wide range of topics in public health.