Bhola Rai

Project Manager, ASCOT

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Bhola Rai is the Project Manager in BNMT Nepal based in the Makwanpur district. He is leading the ASCOT project, inbuilt within in the IMPACT TB project, which aims to evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of a socioeconomic support intervention for TB-affected households in Nepal. He has been working in BNMT for four years as a Research Associate in the IMPACT TB project, funded by the EU Horizon 2020 and the Seed Award project funded by the Wellcome Trust. Bhola holds a Bachelor’s degree in Public Health and he is also pursuing master’s degree in Public Health Administration from Tribhuwan University. Bhola has over seven years’ experience in research, particularly in data collection, management and analysis. He has over 10 publications in high impact peer-reviewed journals. Mr Rai has also worked as a team leader with the Nepal Nutrition Intervention Project in Sarlahi, district in partnerships with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Nepal Netra Jyoti Sangh.

Poonam Bista

District Programme Coordinator, Morang

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She is serving BNMT as a District TB Project coordinator since last 3 years (16th April, 2018) at National Tuberculosis Program supported by Global fund /SCI at Morang district of Province No. 1. Being the Coordinator, she is responsible for Planning, implementing, Coordinating with stakeholders, and monitoring the Project. She had past experience of working at NEW ERA Research Center as a revised HMIS facilitator for Morang District. She had also gained experience as a facilitator of the students of Diploma in general medicine at Birat Health College for a year. She was also engaged as Field supervisor at ageing survey conducted by MoHP at FY 2017/18.Graduating at Child development and gender socialization, she had done bachelor’s degree in Public health. Being a public health professional, she would like to serve the nation contributing to uplift the health status of the people as a whole.

Govind Majhi

District Programme Coordinator, DrOTS project

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Govinda Majhi is our District Program Coordinator for Pyuthan District. He has been working with DrOTS Project since July 2019 but has been part of the Birat Nepal Medical Trust team from 2017. His job role includes the planning and implementation of programme activities for DrOTS Project within the district.

Govinda holds a Bachelor’s Degree from Purbanchal University (Nepal) and a Master’s Degree from Rajiv Gandhi University (India), both in Public Health. His Masters focused on ‘Factors causing delay in pulmonary-TB diagnosisin Morang District Nepal’. Continuing his interest in TB, Govinda applied for an internship in BNMT’s tuberculosis programme in Sunsari District -sponsored by Global Fund. He was then offered a job as District Programme Coordinator for the area of Dang, Udayapur and Makwanpur for IMPACT TB. His passion towards fighting the chronic ongoing problem of TB in Nepal inspired him to eventually apply for his current role in Pyuthan district. His vision is to see a TB-free Nepal.

Manoj Kumar Sah

District Programme Coordinator, Mahottari

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Manoj Kumar Sah is the District Programme Coordinator for IMPACT TB Project in Mahottari District. He is mainly responsible for implementing IMPACT TB project activities and research in the district. He has completed a Master in sociology, a Bachelor of Ayurvedic Medicine & Surgery (BAMS), a Bachelor degree in education in Health and a certificate in General Medicine. I was involved in different public health project in coordination and management of district level health program activities (RH, CB-NCP/IMCI & CB-IMNCI, Nutrition and HIV/AIDS), health system strengthening, inventory and logistics management, good coordinating and supportive facilitative supervision and monitoring of the programme activities.