Dr. Naresh Pratap KC is currently working as the Director of the Family Health Division, Department of Health Services, Ministry of Health and Population of Nepal. Dr. KC, a medical doctor, has been working in public health for more than two decades and is very experienced in program planning, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation from the community to national levels. 

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Adibabu Kadithi works as a research assistant in the research department of GVK EMRI. Kadithi is pursuing a Masters in Philosophy in Hospitals and Health Systems Management (currently in the 3rd semester) from BITS Pilani (WLPD). Kadithi is also involved in different projects pertaining to health emergency management systems.

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Currently working at Populaiton Council as a Senior Program Officer.

Rosemary Kamunya is a nurse-midwife currently serving as the Training Advisor with Jhpiego in Kenya. She has over 30 years experience in health care delivery including reproductive health and training in Kenya and Africa. She has experience in instructional design, workshop, and materials development (including curriculums and learning resource packages) for various departments within the MOH.

Francis Kamwendo is an obstetrician/gynaecologist and lecturer at the College of Medicine in Malawi. He has worked at the Örebro University Hospital in Sweden for 22 years. Dr. Kamwendo has practiced general medicine in Malawi and Kenya and obstetrics and gynaecology in Malawi, Norway, Tanzania, and Zambia. 

Neeta Karandikar, a post graduate in social work, has been working with vulnerable women and children in the development sector for the past 10 years. Currently, she is working in Sure Start project coordinating interventions with public and private health systems to ensure provision of quality maternal and newborn healthcare services to project populations in the N ward of Mumbai city.

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Emily Keyes, MPH, has focused on health services research in the areas of emergency obstetric and newborn care, family planning, and HIV prevention. She has worked with the United Nations Population Fund and the United Nations Children's Fund, as well as Ministries of Health to support facility-based assessments in Ethiopia, Ghana, Angola, Mozambique, and Guyana. 

Completed an MSS and a BSS in Anthropology. Involved with public health research since 1988 and with reproductive health since 2005. Presently leading two studies, "Barriers to Menstruation Regulation" and "Qualitative Component of Bangladesh Maternal Mortality Survery (BMMS) 2010." Has extensive experiences in short and long term pregnancy and delivery related morbidities.

Dr. M. E. Khan is Senior Program Associate and CPO of BCC Strategy Planning project funded by the Gates Foundation. Before that he was Regional Director of FRONTIERS program for the ANE Region. He is a well recognized expert of Operations Research and has carried out large numbers of studies in the area of maternal mortality, FP, SRH and GBV. He has been a member of various Steering Committees of WHO Geneva. 

Amanullah Khan, Deputy Country Director of Health and Nutrition and Program Manager of Saving Newborn Lives/Save the Children US, is a Pakistani citizen based in Islamabad. He initially trained as medical doctor in Pakistan, and then moved into public health and health system research after doing his Masters in Public Health in the United Kingdom in 1996. He is an experienced and skilled public health professional and provides leadership to all health sector programs of Save the Children including Saving Newborn Lives in Pakistan. He has been extensively involved in health sector reforms while working for the Ministry of Health in Pakistan. He has been instrumental in scaling up MNCH/FP best practices in Pakistan. He is Secretary General of White Ribbon Alliance Pakistan and has established Advocacy and Advisory Network for Newborns in Pakistan. 

Research and Evaluation Division, BRAC

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Program Support Unit

Asha Kilaru works in public health research in Bangalore, India, and published a number of community-based studies in maternal and child health, and adolescent health. She is also involved in advocacy through various health and social justice networks and coalitions, and an active member of institutional ethics committees. She is the PI of the study presented here on the quality of care.

Dr. T. Usha Kiran is a well known expert in child health and nutrition. Presently, she is in charge of all RH and Family Health projects funded by the Gates Foundation in India. Before joining the Gates Foundation she was COP of the USAID-funded Nutrition and Child project. She is a highly respected professional with a deep understanding of health and nutrition programs.  

Psychologist and gender specialist, Pathfinder International, Kenya.

Dr. Klemm holds an MPH and DrPH from Johns Hopkins University. He served as Country Director for Helen Keller International in the Philippines for 10 years before joining the faculty of JHU in 1998.  He currently is a principle or co-investigator on several large maternal and infant nutrition interventions in S. Asia, serves as Technical Director for the A2Z Micronutrient Project, and teaches at JHU.

Prof. Prakash V. Kotecha is at present working with A2Z, the USAID Micronutrient Project as Country Reprsentative and Senior Technical Manage. He has been awarded the Technical Cooperation Training Award in Epidemiology by the British government and has been Temporary Advisor to the World Health Organization for iron deficiency anemia. He has done anemia control strategies for UNICEF in Bangladesh and Bhutan. 

Public Health Foundation of India

Dr. Vasanthi Krishnan, CEO, HLFPPT, has over 30 years of experience in the health sector in various capacities with various national and international agencies, several state governments, and the government of India. Project management, monitoring and evaluation, and capacity building are her areas of special interest. She joined HLFPPT in 2007 as Head, Technical Services Division, and took over as CEO in August 2008.

Vidya Kshirsagar is a family welfare officer in Navi Mumbai Municipal corporation. She has a postgraduate diploma in anesthesia. She has 16 years of experience in public health. She has been a pivotal force in motivating the health department staff and has been very effective in implementing the RCH program. She has taken a pro-active role in implementing innovative programs in the system.

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National Institute for Research in Reproductive Health (ICMR)

Anant Kumar launched a pilot LifeSpring Hospital within HLL Lifecare Ltd. in December 2005. Responding to the success of this model of low-cost, high-quality hospitals for women with low incomes, LifeSpring Hospitals launched its own separate private company with equity participation from HLL Lifecare Ltd. and the Acumen Fund in February of 2008. Within one year, the LifeSpring Hospitals network became the largest private maternity hospital network in South India and now aspires to become one of the largest in the world. LifeSpring Hospitals center their efforts on providing women with low incomes safe and affordable maternal care. Anant received his BA from Delhi University and has post-graduate diplomas in Rural Management from the Institute of Rural Management and in Healthcare and Hospital Management from the Symbiosis University. Anant is also a TED India Fellow.

Dr. Kumar serves as the Founder Director of the Community Research Center, Shivgarh and as Director, Research and Evaluation at INCLEN. He holds an associate faculty position at Johns Hopkins University and serves on several technical advisory boards. His research involves developing and evaluating innovative models for improving maternal and newborn survival in low-resource settings. 

Aarti Kumar holds a bachelors degree in computer engineering and a masters degree in bioinformatics from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Her research interests include technology based solutions for maternal and newborns in resource-constrained settings. She directs several global research projects and has published in various international journals including The Lancet.

Ayurvedic & Unani Tibbia College, New Delhi

Hadija Kweka, MBA, is a Senior Research Scientist at Ifakara Health Institute. She is M&E coordinator for Empower, a health systems research project, and serves on the National Human Resources for Health Taskforce. Previously, she was a consultant for the Tanzanian Ministry of Health designing capacity building for the management staff. She is currently studying for a PhD at Leeds University.