Jan 2021 – Present · 5 yrs 4 mos · New York, New York, United States

• I work on strategy, analytics, and organizational transformation projects across North America, East/West Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia. My engagements span multi-billion-dollar philanthropic portfolios, national health programs, and multi-country delivery systems, where I help senior leaders translate complex evidence into actionable decisions.
• My experience includes developing multi-year investment strategies, strengthening operating models, and driving high-analytic workstreams that integrate epidemiology, economics, and market and delivery insights.
• Global Strategy & Investment Architecture
• Contributed to long-term strategies for institutions deploying multi-billion-dollar capital into vaccines, maternal health, and primary care.
• Conducted deep diagnostics of historic investments to identify high-leverage opportunities and refine portfolio priorities across multiple regions.
• Health Technology & Evidence Reviews
• Assessed the global pipeline of next-generation contraceptive technologies; combined user-insight surveys, regulatory reviews, adoption modeling, and cost-of-introduction analysis to highlight where catalytic capital could accelerate scale.
• Evaluated emerging tools across health prevention and delivery, analyzing demand, feasibility, and projected uptake.
• Operating Models & Delivery Systems
• Supported organizational redesigns to improve decision velocity and strengthen field execution for multi-country programs.
• Evidence-Driven Policy & Country Support
• Built geospatial, demographic, and behavioral analytics to guide national strategies in the US, East Africa, and the Gulf.
• Developed business cases for integrated health ecosystems serving large populations.
• I manage diverse teams across time zones and support senior stakeholders through high-stakes, analytically complex decisions.

Jan 2019 – Present · 7 yrs 4 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

• I serve as Chairperson of the Board at LedBy Foundation, India’s first leadership and career-acceleration platform for Indian Muslim women. In this role, I guide strategy, fundraising, institutional partnerships, and long-term organizational direction, ensuring the enterprise remains evidence-driven, financially resilient, and poised for scale.
• LedBy has grown into a nationally recognized, research-backed institution advancing women’s economic mobility through leadership training, mentorship, and workforce pathways.
• Scale, Reach & Outcomes
• Programs have supported 55,000+ learners and graduated 1,200+ fellows, each completing 350+ hours of structured leadership, communication, and career-readiness training.
• Alumnae achieve 80% workforce retention, compared to ~40% in similar cohorts, and continue to see gains in income, job access, and credentialing.
• A network of 200+ volunteers has conducted 600+ structured interviews, generating data on hiring barriers that directly informs program design.
• Strategic Leadership & Organizational Growth
• Set multi-year strategy across program design, financial planning, research priorities, and expansion toward financial inclusion and entrepreneurship support.
• Oversaw the development of a multi-hub operating approach and strengthened governance through board processes, measurement systems, and performance management frameworks.
• Partnerships, Fundraising & Research
• Secured multi-year philanthropic support and built strategic partnerships with Harvard, MIT, and Columbia for curriculum development, leadership content, and research collaborations.
• Championed the organization’s first large-scale hiring-bias study, influencing recruitment policies across corporate India.
• I continue to guide LedBy’s next phase, expanding into integrated pathways that combine skills, networks, and financial access to unlock women’s participation in the workforce.

Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 · 1 yr · New Haven, Connecticut, United States

• Served as a Postgraduate Research Assistant supporting faculty at the Yale Institute for Global Health, working one day a week on research at the intersection of medicine, ethics, and global immunization policy. My work focused on developing a medical-ethics framework for the single-dose HPV vaccine, examining evidence on effectiveness, equity, informed consent, and programmatic implications for low- and middle-income countries.
• I contributed to literature reviews, ethical analyses, and manuscript development, integrating epidemiologic evidence, WHO guidance, and health-systems considerations to assess how single-dose HPV vaccination could expand access for adolescent girls while preserving autonomy and equity.
• This work strengthened my grounding in vaccine ethics, global health policy, and the interface between scientific evidence and real-world delivery.

Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 · 1 yr · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

• Selected as a Cheng Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School and awarded USD 30,000 in catalytic funding to develop and pilot the earliest version of LedBy Foundation. During the fellowship year, I refined LedBy’s theory of change, grounding the model in labor-market evidence, behavioral science, and leadership development frameworks for underrepresented women.
• I worked closely with SICI faculty and advisors on problem definition, user research, systems mapping, and early program design. The Cheng funding enabled the first pilot of the LedBy Fellowship, which received 200 applications for 20 seats, validating the demand for a leadership and career-acceleration platform dedicated to Indian Muslim women.
• This year served as the strategic and operational foundation for LedBy, shaping its mission, design principles, and long-term impact architecture.

Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 · 0 mo · Seattle, Washington, United States

• Served as a Global Health Intern supporting the Foundation’s work on HPV single-dose vaccination. I conducted a detailed mapping of clinical trials in Kenya and South Africa, reviewing study designs, populations, endpoints, and emerging evidence on immunogenicity and effectiveness. My analyses contributed to internal understanding of how the global evidence base for single-dose HPV vaccination was evolving.
• Identified key gaps in bioequivalence and bridging studies, especially for adolescent girls in high-burden settings, and worked with technical teams to outline options for strengthening the evidence base. I also carried out scenario planning to anticipate how different trial outcomes could shape future SAGE recommendations, including implications for dose schedules, global guidance, and country-level adoption.
• I supported literature synthesis, internal briefings, and early policy analyses that informed programmatic and investment discussions on HPV vaccination strategies.

Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 · 1 yr · Greater Delhi Area

• The apex policy think tank of the Government of India
• Worked with the Health & Nutrition vertical under Dr. Vinod K. Paul, contributing to national health-policy design across medical devices, public insurance, digital health, and district-level performance improvement.
• Supported development of the National Medical Device Policy, providing analytical inputs on market structure, manufacturing gaps, and ecosystem priorities. Contributed to Ayushman Bharat, examining insurance design, claims patterns, provider incentives, and the emerging IT/data architecture underpinning the scheme’s national rollout.
• Played a central role in the Aspirational Districts Programme, collaborating with Piramal Swasthya and district administrations to improve health and nutrition delivery across 150 of India’s most under-served districts. I designed the 31 Health & Nutrition indicators used to track district performance, integrating maternal and child health, service delivery, nutrition, and governance metrics.
• I also co-authored Chapter 8 (Health & Nutrition) in NITI Aayog’s official publication Aspirational Districts: An Overview, documenting national trends, district disparities, programme design logic, and early implementation insights (co-authors: Ashwin Deshmukh, Dr. Shailendra Hegde, Urvashi Prasad).
• Contributed to the State Health Index, synthesizing outcomes, governance, and service delivery into a national benchmarking tool. Represented NITI Aayog at governing council meetings of national health bodies, supporting discussions on performance monitoring, accountability, and inter-ministerial coordination.
• This role deepened my grounding in India’s federal health architecture, policy reform, and district-level delivery systems.

Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 · 1 yr · Greater Delhi Area

• Worked across CHAI India’s Maternal Health & Anemia team and the Vaccines / Cold Chain Systems Strengthening team, supporting large-scale public health initiatives in partnership with state governments and national programs.
• Maternal Health & Anemia (Double Fortified Salt – DFS)
• Supported the rollout of Double Fortified Salt (DFS) in Madhya Pradesh, conducting supply-chain assessments, behavioral insights work, and distribution modelling to evaluate feasibility through the Public Distribution System (PDS).
• Contributed to implementation planning, vendor assessments, and state-level strategy discussions that ultimately informed the successful launch of DFS through the PDS, improving access to iron-fortified staples for low-income households.
• Vaccines & Cold Chain Equipment
• Worked with CHAI’s immunization team to strengthen India’s cold chain equipment (CCE) system, completing assessments across 12 cities to evaluate spare-parts inventory, equipment uptime, maintenance processes, and supply-chain bottlenecks.
• Synthesized findings into operational and procurement recommendations used by state immunization programs to improve equipment functionality and reduce downtime for vaccine storage.
• This role strengthened my grounding in public health delivery, state-level systems, and the operational realities of scaling maternal health and immunization programs across diverse geographies.

Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 · 1 yr · Greater Delhi Area