Innovation Partners

Shivani is a healthcare actuary and part-time academic. She sees her work life as an extension of her meditation and yoga practice: an imperfect (but always evolving) attempt to bring careful attention to bear on socially-meaningful problems.

The healthcare system is the primary object of her intellectual affection. When she isn’t working (or reading something healthcare-related) you’ll find her hanging out with Dave, her son Shivam and Zadie & Bruno, the dachshunds. She spends an inordinate amount of time thinking about food. She also loves big cities, reading fiction & writing.

Anja is a development economist and part-time academic. She helped found Cenfri, a financial service think tank, in 2008. After spending eight years of her career consulting in the area of access to financial services and financial inclusion, she pursued a PhD in economics focusing on various South African health system questions. Through the PhD, she immersed herself in health sector research. She remains deeply interested and committed to broader societal development and the social delivery systems that support this.

Anja works for Percept as an economist and is also a part-time researcher for Research on Socio-Economic Policy (ReSEP) at Stellenbosch University’s Economics Department.

Rose is an economist with a deep interest in researching health systems and how they can be improved to deliver better and more equitable health outcomes. Rose joined Percept after previously working in financial inclusion and financial sector development. She holds an MSc in Health Economics and Decision Science from University College London and an MComm in Applied Economics from University of Cape Town.

Sirisha works as the Head of Research & Evaluation at World Health Partners, India. Her experience focuses on interdisciplinary approaches to improve the quality of Tuberculosis care including medical epidemiology, operational research, technology design, ethnography, and policy development.

Prior to World Health Partners, she worked at the Poverty Action Lab, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and the Clinton Foundation. Her portfolio has included agricultural development, post-conflict refugee settings, and infectious diseases. She has worked in Uganda, Kenya, Zambia, and India. Sirisha is a graduate of Harvard Medical School and Northwestern University and has served as an Infectious Disease Research Fellow.

Dr. Yogesh believes that patients deserve improvements in mental and social health in addition to clinical improvement. He works as project director in WHP for the USAID project ‘Closing the Gaps in TB Care Cascade’. Before joining WHP, he worked as a consultant with World Health Organization(WHO) at the state and central level. He facilitated the development and implementation of various initiatives for managing Drug-Resistant TB, including introduction of a shorter regimen and newer drugs under the National TB Elimination Program (NTEP). He also contributed to expansion of Nikshay MIS platform, development of NTEP guidelines for private sector engagement and active case finding and development of e-training content. He assisted in the engagement of private sector/NGOs/other sectors for TB management in two states. He has an MD in Community Medicine and MBA (HRM). When not at work, he loves cycling and playing cricket.