Dr. Suchitra Dalvie is a highly motivated women’s health expert with over 12 years of clinical experience and over 9 years of development work experience. She is currently Coordinator of ASAP. 

Ramatu Daroda has over 20 years of experience as a midwife and clinical educator. She earned an MPH from Boston University.

Jashodhara Dasgupta is the Coordinator of SAHAYOG (Lucknow), an NGO working with women's health and gender equality using human rights frameworks. She has been working with issues of women's rights in Uttar Pradesh for nearly 25 years and is currently a researcher and policy advocate on sexual and reproductive health and rights.

Dr. Louise Tina Day currently serves as Consultant in Obstetrics, Clinical Lead for Pediatrics, and as the Head of the MIS-Research Department at LAMB Integrated Rural Health and Development in Dinajpur, Bangladesh. Dr. Day studied at Cambridge University, UK and completed her medical degree with a distinction in obstetrics and gynecology from London University. Her postgraduate clinical training in pediatrics and obstetrics was in London before moving to Bangladesh in 2002 and to LAMB in 2003. She has also done brief consultancies for several organizations in Bangladesh, including Saving Newborn Lives, ICDDR,B, Tearfund UK, and EngenderHealth. 

Luc de Bernis, OB-GYN and public health specialist, worked for over 15 years as a health care provider and adviser in a number of African countries before becoming Medical Officer and Coordinator at WHO/RHR, MPS, and Regional Maternal Health Adviser for the African Region, UNFPA. Luc de Bernis is currently Senior Maternal Health Adviser at UNFPA headquarters.

Helen de Pinho is a public health physician with experience as a researcher, health service manager, and clinician in South Africa. As AMDD's Associate Director she is responsible for the Human Resources for Maternal Survival program with particular focus on the use of non-physician clinicians to deliver EmOC. Prior to joining AMDD, Dr. de Pinho was a policy advisor to the UN Millennium Project.

Dr. Devi is currently working under UNDP assignment in Ethiopia as a lecturer in health economics and hospital administration. Dr. Devi has a postgraduate degree in Hospital Administration from M.G. University and was in the first batch of students of PHFI of the Health Economics, Policy and Financing program. Selected for the Young Researchers grant from AHPSR, WHO in 2007-2008.

Rajarata University of Sri Lanka

Claudia Diaz Olavarrieta is a senior researcher at the National Institute of Public Health of Mexico and a consultant for the Population Council Mexico City office. She has a Masters in Clinical Psychology and a PhD in Health Sciences from the School of Medicine at the National Autonomous University in México (UNAM).

Ayisha Diop is a Program Associate at Gynuity Health Projects and coordinates work in Africa. Before joining Gynuity, she worked on reproductive health issues at the Pacific Institute for Women’s Health and then at IntraHealth International in Dakar, Senegal. As Regional Program Coordinator she provided technical assistance and conducted trainings in Francophone and Anglophone Africa.

Daniela Draghici, EEARC Steering Committee member, was an Ipas policy advocacy consultant, and is a pioneer in nongovernmental organization networking and advocacy training and campaigning for reproductive health and rights in Central and Eastern Europe. She is an Advisory Board member of the ASTRA Network.

Anuradha Dubey is a Biostatistician at the GVK Emergency Management and Research Institute. She holds a Master of Science in Health Statistics from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. She previously worked as a scientist (statistician) with the Indian Council of Medical Research and National Institute of Medical Statistics. She has four publications in national and international Journals.

Freedom from Hunger

Institute of Health Management, Pachod