Campbell South Asia is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr Ashrita Saran as Acting Director of Campbell South Asia effective from 1 June 2020.
Ashrita joined Campbell in December 2016 as an Evidence Synthesis Specialist. She has played a central role in the development of evidence and gap maps as a Campbell evidence product, and led the research teams for a number of maps. She has run workshops for researchers in Bangladesh, China, Croatia, India, Kenya, Lebanon, Mexico, Nepal, the Philippines and Uganda.
Ashrita holds a Masters in Public Health-Epidemiology from Manipal University. Prior to joining Campbell, she worked with Cochrane South Asia and at the Public Health Foundation of India. Her research interest areas are child welfare, education, gender and diversity, HIV/AIDS, and socio-economic aspects of health and wellbeing.
Her work has focused on strengthening the evidence base for informed decisionmaking. She said, “I welcome the opportunity that heading Campbell South Asia will give me to engage with researchers and decisionmakers across the region, to increase the use of evidence to inform policies and practices which affect the lives of millions of people”.
Ashrita is also an Editor of Campbell’s International Development Coordinating Group and a member of the editorial board member for the International Journal for Innovative Research and Review.
For more information, please contact Campbell South Asia.