This Expert's name is Nidhi Khurana

Professional Experience

• WHO Foundation/ Senior Portfolio Lead - Strategy and Impact

  Jun 2022 - Present
  • Lead strategy and design evidence-based investments for the Primary Health, Digital Health and Mental Health thematic work streams to support the WHO's General Programme of Work and Triple Billion targets.
  • Review and augment WHO Foundation’s inaugural triennium strategy (2022-25).
  • Design and implement a multi-criteria opportunity prioritisation framework to assess investment opportunities across WHOF’s identified focus areas to provide a clear direction whether to ‘build’, ‘incubate’ or ‘no go’ a specific opportunity.
  • Lead engagement with WHO counterparts and key partners in the global health ecosystem to drive action on two critical investment areas, namely 1) Scaling what works i

• Independent Global Health Consultant - Various

  Nov 2021 - Present
  - Designed a complex evidence-informed multi-sectoral convergent programme for adolescent wellbeing for the Government of Bihar, drawing on evidence from the largest longitudinal study of adolescents globally
  - Drive a bi-monthly newsletter product which brings forth implementation lessons from Dvara Health Finance’s flagship health financing innovation for the ‘missing middle'.
  - Lead the policy landscaping and programmatic evaluation of a ‘lessons learned’ study for the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) to understand key learnings and takeaways from their decade-long midwifery strengthening programme in Bangladesh.

• Population Council/Health Systems Specialist

  Apr 2019 - Oct 2021
  Led the health systems design and evidence-to-impact work-streams. Engaged with the federal and state governments on reproductive, maternal, neonatal, child and adolescent health (RMNCAH) policy advocacy, as well as with stakeholders such as international philanthropies as a thought-partner in designing health systems initiatives in states with poor health outcomes.