Mona is a Junior Fellow with the Health Initiative at Observer Research Foundation’s Delhi office. Her research expertise and interests lie broadly at the intersection of Health Systems and policy research, Gender, and Human Rights. Within the Health Initiative, she leads the COVID-19 trackers – analysing and visualising data on vaccinations and infections; while working on its data-driven impact on the populations and resilience of systems sub-nationally. Mona has been involved in several research studies exploring public policies and scientific literature in the past, and her focus lies in the braoder sustainable development framework.
Expertise
- Health Systems and Policy
- Public Health
- Gender and LGBTQIA+
- Social Policy
Current Position(s)
- Consultant, G20 Health Secretariat, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, India
Past Position(s)
- Research Fellow, India Gender Platform at The World Bank, India
- Project Intern, State Resource Centre for Women, Government of Telangana
- Research Intern at Human Rights Law Network, Delhi
- Student Investigator, University of Delhi Innovation Project
Education
- M.A. Women’s Studies From Tata Institute of Social Sciences
- B.A. (Honours) English, University of Delhi
Language Fluency
- English
- Hindi
- French (limited proficiency)
