Madhavi Misra is a public health specialist with close to 15yrs of work experience in India on health systems and maternal and child health. She has rich knowledge of India’s public health system, its challenges and the road ahead. Madhavi has previously authored a book on an interest area close to her heart – ‘Innovations in maternal health: case studies from India’ published by SAGE publishers. She has worked and contributed to the growth of some of India’s premier research and policy organization such as Public Health Foundation of India, Population Foundation of India and Oxford Policy Management Ltd. Madhavi has worked in the Ministry of Health (Govt of India) on comprehensive abortion care, and with Population Council on research on women’s groups and health interventions.
Madhavi has studied at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences where she did an MA in Social Work and then at University of Warwick where she undertook another master’s degree in public health. Madhavi is a Chevening Gurukul fellow selected by the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 2017 where she did her fellowship at the University of Oxford, U.K. Madhavi is currently pursuing her Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) degree at Johns Hopkins University, USA. She is leading a large project on strengthening India’s primary health care in and is working with the Johns Hopkins University’s India office.