Vishwajeet Kumar

Dr. Vishwajeet Kumar is a physician with advanced public health training from Johns Hopkins University, USA. His scientific work has focused on developing and evaluating innovative models for improving maternal and newborn survival in low-resource settings. Dr. Kumar has also been involved with large-scale program evaluations and has consistently brought his expertise to further policy advancements in maternal and neonatal survival. The Community Empowerment Lab, co-founded by Dr. Kumar in Shivgarh, provides an enriching environment for multi-disciplinary community-based research in partnership with the community for developing new empowerment-centric approaches, methodologies, and products to address maternal, new-born as well as child healthcare needs. As an integrative thinker, Dr. Kumar strongly believes that the solutions to the problems of maternal and child health lie dispersed across disciplines, individuals, organizations and geographies, where the game-changing solutions will emerge from cross-pollination of ideas, skills, experiences and resources. The Shivgarh new-born survival study was a classic example of an interdisciplinary approach, where principles of anthropology, sociology, demography, social work, epidemiology, medicine, bioinformatics, management, and communication science were applied together to develop a public health solution.