Saki Thapa

Advocacy, Networking and Resource Mobilization Manager

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Saki Thapa joined BNMT in 2014. She is a core member of BNMT and works as an Advocacy, Networking and Resource Mobilization Manager at BNMT Nepal. She is responsible for project designing, and grants application and has demonstrated history of developing and implementing Tuberculosis, sexual and reproductive health and right, WASH, Mental health and health system strengthening projects in Nepal.

Saki did her MSc in Public Health from Berlin School of Public Health, Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany. She also holds master degree in Health care management from Pokhara University, Nepal. Her area of interest is SRHR, maternal and child health, and mental health. She is equally concerned on the increased NCD’s in the country and climate change. She is interested in generating evidences to help improve lives of both local and global communities through research.

Currently, she has taken additional responsibility of Amplify Change project, READ-It project and Breaking the Stigma Project as a project manager to improve sexual and reproductive health and right of adolescent in rural Nepal.

She is kind, responsible and honest individual, who has very positive attitude towards life and likes travelling and making friends.

Dr Khem Pokhrel

Post-Doctoral Researcher, READ-It Project

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Khem is a global health professional with key expertise in designing, implementing, and evaluating Public Health Programs for more than 10 years in Nepal and abroad. He received MSc and PhD degrees in Global Health from The University of Tokyo, Japan. His primary areas of work comprise of Health System Strengthening, Global Burden of Disease Study, HIV, Nutrition, Mental Health, Digital Health, and Reproductive Health.

He worked for several research,  monitoring, and evaluation projects in various organization such as FACT project of Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA, Mental Health Project of CaMH, Canada, Care International, Family Health International, Save the Children International, and several other national organizations in Nepal. He has extensive research capacity and published multiple public health research articles in international indexed journals:

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=hGfU2lgAAAAJ&hl=en

Samjhana Shrestha

Research Officer, READ-It Project

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Samjhana Shrestha is the Research Officer at BNMT Nepal for the READ-It project. Samjhana is a passionate public health researcher with a stock of experiences in health research; data management and statistical analysis; and application of Geographical Information System (GIS) in health research. She completed MPH under Erasmus Mundus Master’s Program in Public Health from The University of Sheffield, UK, and the EHESP School of Public Health, France. She has received academic training on Geographical Information System (GIS) from Sheffield Hallam University. Her areas of interest in research revolve around infectious and non-infectious diseases, maternal and child health, health inequalities, and geospatial health -understanding how built environment influences health behaviors and health outcomes. She has previously worked in Neighborhood Environments and Mobility: Effects on Social Health Inequalities cohort project for assessing the association between spatial accessibility to sports facilities and sports practice through developing various models; and the integrated nutrition project ‘Suaahara’ for implementing interventional activities at the field level for improving the health and nutritional status of mothers and children.