Bhawani Singh Kushwaha
- APID
- 4581
- Location
- New Delhi, Delhi, India
- Expertise
- Vaccine Preventable Disease, HIV& STI, Community Engagement, Injecting Drug Use, Transgender Health, Private Sector Engagement
- Areas of interest
- Program Implementation
- Member since
- October 2023
Biography
Bio Sketch of Dr Bhawani Singh
Dr Bhawani Singh is an officer of Public Health Specialist Cadre of Central Health Services and currently serving as Deputy Director, at Nartional AIDS Control Organisation, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Govt. of India.
He has completed his MBBS in 2005 and MD (Community Medicine) in 2008 from Sri MP Shah Medical College, Jamnagar, Gujarat. He has vast and varied experience, having worked in WHO for more than a decade for the National Polio Eradication Programme. He has been instrumental in successfully scaling up of the Universal Immunisation Programme and roll out Measles-Rubella Vaccine, IPV in India. He has helped in building Surveillance Systems for Vaccine Preventable Diseases.
At Health Ministry he has been a Key revitalize the Prevention, Testing and Treatment aspects of HIV Control through strengthen the Community Systems, Community Led Monitoring, designing Interventions in Prisons and Other Closed settings, At Risk population for HIV/AIDS engaging on Virtual Platforms, Integrated Health Screening campaign in North-East India to reach out to Hard-to-reach population.
The HIV-TB, HIV - NCD and other co-comorbidities management has scaled up under his supervision. The efforts to mainstream the HIV interventions and work on decreasing Stigma and Discrmination has been the praiseworthy.
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